Finance Officer
Blue Coat Church of England Academy, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 2ND20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week. Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 8am-4pm Friday 8am-3:30pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC Point 19-22 (Point 19= £29,829 Point 22= £31,353) dependant on experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a skilled and adaptable Finance Officer? Are you committed to supporting the work of a school to provide the best possible provision for students? Do you thrive on working as part of a team where every day is different and presents a new challenge? If so then this could be the job for you!
We are seeking to appoint a Finance Officer to work as a member of the school’s Business and Academy Operations Team. The successful candidate will play a key role to support effective financial administration in school including raising orders, liaison with suppliers, preparing invoices for payment, reconciling charge card statements, reconciling petty cash, preparing School Gateway reports on trip payments, sending reminders to parents/carers for payment of supplementary charges and trip payments and raising purchase orders. We require staff who are excited by this opportunity and who are ready to embrace this challenge, supporting us in delivering a great local school for our local community. For all of us, staff, Governors, children and parents/carers, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference to students’ lives.
What the school offers its staff
The school has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, most recently in January 2023:
“Blue Coat Church of England Academy is an inclusive school where kindness flourishes. The school’s values include wisdom, service, endurance and hope. The school’s culture is rooted in these values. There are positive relationships between staff and pupils. Staff know their pupils well, and pupils feel cared for. Staff have high expectations, and pupils live up to these.”
Blue Coat Church of England Academy is one of the oldest educational establishments in Walsall, is well-respected and valued by the community it serves. We operate on a very collaborative approach to school improvement working with a range of other schools and nationally recognised trainers. The school is very proud of the family ethos which pervades all aspects of its work, which is grounded in Christian values. The school has recently been awarded the Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award, demonstrating our commitment to embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into our ethos and curriculum.
Further information about the job
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Blue Coat Church of England Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 967 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Blue Coat Church of England Academy website
- Email address
- st-mcfarlane-s@bluecoatacademy.org
- Phone number
- 01922 720558
Comprehensive Church of England Academy.
Arranging a visit to Blue Coat Church of England Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email st-mcfarlane-s@bluecoatacademy.org.
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