Finance Assistant
St Richard's Catholic College, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1SE14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
23 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Single Status
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Experience of working with Arbor or a similar data management system.
- Experience of using word processing, spreadsheets, database and IT packages.
- Experience of working in a financial based role.
- Experience of producing standard financial reports.
- Some experience of budget monitoring and account reconciliation.
- Experience of undertaking a range of clerical and administrative duties, including data input and retrieval.
- Ability to work in an organised and methodical manner.
- Ability to maintain efficient record keeping systems.
- Ability to assist with the production of accurate records and reports as required.
- Ability to communicate with a range of audiences including other employees within the school, governors, pupils and parents.
- Able to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English.
- Ability to identify work priorities and manage own workload to meet deadlines whilst ensuring that lower priority work is kept up to date.
- Ability to show sensitivity and objectivity in dealing with confidential issues.
- A basic knowledge of the financial workings of a school.
- Some knowledge of budget management and accounting techniques.
- Knowledge of, or willingness to learn, a range of computer applications including financial management systems and Schools Cash Office.
- Highly competent in the use of ICT – especially Excel and Word.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills.
- Extremely organised and able to deliver on time and to agreed quality standards.
- Understand the importance of confidentiality and discretion.
What the school offers its staff
Superb working conditions
- Excellent staff facilities including free tea and coffee and microwave and fridge in the staffroom
- Staff Welfare team which provides gifts, flowers and cards for leavers and staff with significant life events
- Occasional social activities eg Friday after school football, staff choir, Christmas party, informal nights out
- Child care voucher scheme
- SLT doors are always open to listen to your concerns or share your successes
- Ensuring equality and diversity is a priority
- Governors focused on Staff wellbeing
- Free confidential counselling provided on request
- Access to fitness suite before and after school
- Oversubscribed school with close links with the community and supportive parents/carers
- Exemplary pupil behaviour which is always commented on by visitors
Commitment to safeguarding
St Richard's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@strichardscc.com
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Richard's Catholic College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1026 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Richard's Catholic College website
- Email address
- recruitment@strichardscc.com
- Phone number
- 01424 731070
St Richard’s is a co-educational Catholic school offering an inclusive Christian education to pupils of all abilities from the ages of 11 to 16 years. It is our aim to encourage, support and develop every pupil in our care academically, socially and spiritually.
We have high academic standards at St Richard's, as our GCSE results consistently testify. We expect our pupils to work hard, behave well, dress smartly and pursue excellence in all that they do inside and outside of the classroom. We also aim to provide a happy, caring and safe environment in which pupils can learn and develop into rounded, responsible and confident members of the community.
Our efforts have not gone unnoticed. We are a Specialist Science School with High performing Specialist School status. We have a Prince’s Teaching Institute Art Mark, Leading Edge status, Fairtrade Fair Achiever Award status, an Artsmark Gold Award, a Space Education Quality Mark, Green Flag Eco-Schools Award and Investors in Careers at the highest level. Our interim Diocesan Inspection of March 2024 found that 'students articulated how much they valued the academic support and pastoral support that they have received during their time at St Richard's. We have also been awarded numerous times by the SSAT, currently holding Exceptional Education Awards, Engaging with Key Stakeholders, Climate for Learning, Leadership through Moral Purpose, Professional Development, Variety of Teaching Approaches, Exceptional Pupil Performance and, perhaps most pleasing, Exceptional Pupil Progress.
An OFSTED inspection in October 2021 graded the school outstanding in ‘Behaviour and Attitudes’, ‘Personal Development’ and ‘Leadership and Management’. Our results of 2024 place us, again, as the highest achieving school within the County and progress rates continue to be extremely strong, meaning the pupils at St Richard’s leave school with all the attributes they need to be successful and caring members of their communities.
All children are unique and precious individuals with different talents and aspirations, and our efforts are directed into ensuring that they feel both valued and challenged.
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