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Finance Assistant
The Radclyffe School, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 0LSThis job expired on 3 April 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours 40 minutes per week (term time only) plus 15 additional days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3, Point 6-11 - £22,671 to £25,328 (pro rata applied)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Under the direction of the Senior Finance Manager and Business Manager, you will be required to carry out effective financial administration procedures. It is essential that you are organised, excellent at multi-tasking, works flexibly and has a ‘can do’ attitude.
The post-holder will be required to undertake appropriate training where offered to ensure that their skills remain up to date. The school will provide training on all relevant software to ensure proficiency in necessary systems.
You must have
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Experience of producing information clearly in a way that can be understood by others
- Experience of reviewing data for errors and discrepancies
- Experience of undertaking administration/clerical tasks
- Experience of team-working to work effectively with others and meet deadlines and goals
- Excellent communication skills delivering professional, polite, courteous and efficient customer services
- Ability to interpret information to solve problems and make recommendations for action
- Organisational skills to work under pressure to complete tasks to potential conflicting deadlines, which can involve reprioritising own work
- Ability to be methodical and thorough to ensure work is accurate
- Initiative to respond to unexpected problems, using recognised policies and procedures as a guide
- Understanding of why safeguarding is important when working with children and young people.
- Have a positive ‘can-do’ approach to work
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
- A commitment to promote and support the school’s ethos for staff wellbeing for staff and students.
It would be desirable to have
Relevant financial or school office experience
- Experience of using computerised packages for financial administration, specifically trained to standard user level in Microsoft excel functions
- Experience of working in an accounts or procurement function
- Experience of working in an academy or other educational setting
- Knowledge of relevant financial best practice and legal requirement appropriate to the role, including VAT, tac, auditing and credit control
- Understanding the financial framework and regulations that an academy is required to operate
- Knowledge of financial procedures associated with being an academy, a charity and associated accounting frameworks
What the school offers its staff
Our Vision:
- As exemplified in our motto, “Working Together for Excellence”, we will collaborate to create an extended school family around each child, comprising their peers, their staff and their parents & carers that has the common aim of supporting that student to be the very best version of themselves every single day;
- Every student who attends The Radclyffe School will have equal access to an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that will not only allow them to learn essential knowledge across a range of subjects but will stimulate them to build on this in the future and enable them to pursue their personal dreams;
- Supported by our culture of high expectations, all our students, no matter what their background or previous social and academic experience, will leave our school as well-qualified, literate, numerate, independent and confident young adults with a global perspective, ready to make a highly positive contribution to their community and wider society;
- In our diverse and inclusive school community, our staff will nurture our students and instill within them the attributes of resilience and personal responsibility as well as the values of respect, kindness and acceptance of one another and of people from all faiths, cultures and backgrounds.
As an employer we can offer you:
- a successful and forward-looking school with stunning and unrivalled facilities.
- a supportive staff and Senior Leadership Team to help you develop your full potential.
- a school renowned for outstanding professional development opportunities across both its support and teaching staff.
- a highly skilled team.
- a school community committed to corporate excellence.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Radclyffe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Please see our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy for further information: https://theradclyffeschool.co.uk/safeguarding-child-protection-policy/
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Radclyffe School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1475 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Radclyffe School website
- Email address
- hr@theradclyffeschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01616223200
The Radclyffe School is a popular 11-16 maintained Foundation (Co-operative) Trust school in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. The Governing Body has direct responsibility for the employment of staff, its finances, the running of the school and the outcomes it achieves. It is a larger than average secondary school with 1500 mixed gender students on roll. The school is full in every year group. Over 70% of students are from ethnic minority backgrounds, most of whom are of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage. Some 30% of students qualify for free school meals or a clothing grant to help with the purchase of school uniform.
Arranging a visit to The Radclyffe School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@theradclyffeschool.co.uk.
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