Finance Officer
Fernwood School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 2FT17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 May 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
- £27,452.00 - £29,537.00 Annually (Actual)
Finance Officer job summary
Finance Officer
The Fernwood School is a thriving and dynamic secondary school committed to delivering high-quality education in a nurturing environment. We are seeking an experienced Finance Officer to join our new team and help drive the financial success and strategic development of the school. Working closely with the newly appointed Chief Financial Officer, this newly created position offers you the unique opportunity to build and develop our in-house finance team from the ground up, ensuring the school’s financial health and long-term sustainability.
The Role:
You will be responsible for the day-to-day financial transactions of The Fernwood School, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with financial regulations. This role will focus on purchase and sales ledger management, bank and control account reconciliations, payroll journals, VAT returns, and reconciliation of the school’s electronic payment system. The Finance Officer will provide essential support to the Chief Financial Officer in maintaining financial records, preparing reports, and ensuring smooth financial operations.
About Us:
The Fernwood School is a Secondary school with 1,550 pupils, located in Nottingham. We are proud of our ethos of ‘High Achievement with Care and Discipline for All’. Our teaching profession is dedicated, innovative, and talented, treated with respect and afforded autonomy in the classroom. Our pupils are wonderful, well-behaved, and have high aspirations.
We hold a recent Ofsted outstanding judgement and have achieved Leading Edge Status, with a strong Progress 8 score – the highest in Nottingham City in 2024. Our staff and governors work professionally and collaboratively for the benefit of the young people we serve. The successful candidate will join a team of effective, hardworking professionals, committed to providing an outstanding education for all students.
About You:
The ideal candidate will be working towards or hold a recognised professional finance qualification, with experience in a finance officer, accounts assistant or similar transactional finance role. You will have strong communication skills, with the ability to liaise effectively with suppliers, contractors, parents and staff. With a high level of accuracy and attention to detail you will have knowledge of purchase and sales ledger management, bank reconciliations and financial processing.
Why Join Us?
A new position – help build the finance function from scratch and play a key role in the development of the school
Competitive salary and benefits package
Be part of a school with a strong reputation and high standards.
A supportive and collaborative work environment with a dedicated and talented team.
Access to professional development and career growth opportunities.
Access to 24 hours a day confidential employee assistance programme
Subsidised yoga classes
Cycle to work scheme
Diversity and Inclusion:
Fernwood School is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage, or civil partnership.
If you are ready to take on this exciting opportunity, we would love to hear from you.
Safeguarding:
The Fernwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services check along with other relevant employment checks. In addition, this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a Self-Disclosure is required for all applicants shortlisted for interview. Online searches will be carried out on all shortlisted applicants as part of due diligence checks.
How To Apply:
If you are ready to take on a new challenge and make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you! Apply today and become part of a school that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
Please return your completed application form, together with your letter of application (no more than 2 sides of A4, font size 11) explaining how your skills, qualities and experience would enable you to be successful in the role to the Headteacher, Mr C Gell, and HR Manager, Mrs H Wallis. Applications can be submitted via MyNewTerm.
Further details of the school are available on our website www.fernwoodschool.org.uk.
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 Fernwood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1432 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fernwood School website
School location
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