Finance Assistant

Roundwood Primary School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 3AD

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  7 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £8,346.00 - £8,890.00 Annually (Actual) FTE £24.5k-£26.4k, term-time only

Finance Assistant job summary

Are you positive and enthusiastic with excellent financial and administrative skills and looking to be part of a friendly and professional school office team?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic and well-organised Finance Assistant. This role, which is 15 hours per week, term-time only, can be completed during school hours on any day apart from a Monday.

The successful applicant will be able to work using their own initiative to provide finance support to the School Business Manager, with specific responsibility for payroll, ordering and invoicing. You will need to have a friendly and positive attitude, be tenacious and enjoy working as part of a team. Life in a primary school is always busy, and so our ideal person is someone who is happy to help out with whatever needs doing to support staff, parents, and children.

Financial experience, strong Excel skills, numeracy skills and an eye for detail is essential, and whilst experience of school office procedures would be desirable, we will provide training for the right candidate.

What we offer:

• A professional and friendly office team
• Competitive salary
• A commitment to professional development
• A collaborative and supportive working environment
• Flexible working possibilities

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Roundwood Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 335 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Roundwood Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/roundwood-primary-school

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