Finance Officer
Aston Community Education Trust, Sheffield, S26 2BH7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
11 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,620.00 - £26,707.00 Annually (Actual) Hours are term time including 2 inset days plus 5 days during the school holidays. Band F - based on the FTE salary of £27,711 - £30,060
Finance Officer job summary
Aston Community Education Trust are a forward thinking and ambitious multi-academy trust, comprising of three secondary academies and nine junior academies across the Rotherham, Sheffield and north Derbyshire areas.
ACET is committed to making a real difference to the lives of our young people and will provide excellent learning and enrichment opportunities for them throughout their time with us. To be able to achieve this, we need to have a team of dedicated and outstanding staff, who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and effective Finance Officer who will be based initially at our Swinton Academy with a wider requirement to work across all our Senior Academies (Swinton, Shirebrook and Aston) as and when need arises. This role will attract individuals with previous professional finance experience or equivalent.
The post holder will report to the Finance Manager and work closely with both the central finance team and school communities. The successful candidate will be an effective communicator with the ability work to a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
The post holder will -
- Be responsible for providing finance and administration support including raising purchase orders, processing of invoices, reconciling accounts.
- Be the first point of contact for any finance queries.
- Have outstanding organisational skills and the ability to prioritise tasks in a busy environment.
- Have excellent IT skills including experience working with SIMS, Access and Excel and Word
Application Details
Prospective candidates are invited to contact Paula Corbett, CFO at paula.corbett@astoncetrust.org for further information about the role.
Safeguarding
ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.
It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.
Equality
ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.
We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.
Early applications are encouraged as we may close applications early for the right candidate.
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.
About Aston Community Education Trust
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- Multi-academy trust
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