Finance Officer
Lakenham Primary School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2HLThis job expired on 18 September 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
18 September 2025 at 1am
Date listed
2 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £13.68 - £14.58 per hour
Finance Officer job summary
Email: sbm@lakenhamprimary.org.uk
- Salary – Grade E, £13.68-£14.58/hr (£26,404-£28,142 FTE)
- Permanent
- Part Time
- 15 hours per week (pattern of work to be agreed)
- Term time + 2 weeks
- Required as soon as possible
Lakenham Primary and Nursery School is a lovely school within easy reach of central Norwich. To be successful in gaining this post, we require someone who can become immersed in a ‘can-do culture’.
The success candidate will be working closely with the School Business Manager and Headteacher, where they will provide support across a range of areas in school financial administration. A large proportion of your role will include daily use of the county online finance system.
The position will begin as soon as possible. For the right candidate, we can be flexible in terms of the working pattern, but ideally this would be over 3 days.
As a finance officer, your role will include:
- To place orders for goods and equipment, ensuring value for money, checking deliveries and invoices in accordance with procedures and financial regulations
- To be responsible for the Nursery financial administration
- To operate an effective and efficient educational trips system, supporting the school business manager from a financial element in relation to schedule of payments, ParentPay enquiries and debt collection
- To operate the school's financial systems, including processing and review of orders, deliveries and invoices in place, that expenditure is appropriate and that supporting invoices/receipts are in evidence
- To be responsible for all aspects of parental contributions, monitoring payments in ParentPay and dealing with enquiries from parents and other staff members regarding any payments and keeping a checklist of student payments and outstanding amounts
- To assist in preparing month end reconciliations and financial reports as required
- To undertake financial tasks in accordance with agreed policies, appropriate legislation and financial regulations and standing orders
- Assist in identifying and reporting major variances and the reasons for such variances.
- Responsible for implementing the following and ensuring that each task is carried out as defined in corresponding procedures:
- raising orders for goods, supplies and services;
- producing open commitment reports;
- raising online payments for approved payments;
- ensuring that all payments are properly approved;
- using LMS accounts financial systems;
- maintaining all data records relating to income and expenditure;
- budget reconciliation, as directed;
- producing, as directed, ad hoc reports, including financial or management reports for the school’s governing body, in consultation with the school business manager;
- accounting for all expenditure;
- recording, accounting and banking unofficial funds;
- accounting for all income, including dinner money collected (all online);
- maintaining dinner registers.
- Ensure that the central finance system is maintained and used to record all financial and accounting data.
- Ensure that all properly authorised expenditure is routinely checked for accuracy and to safeguard against error.
- Monitor, as directed, supplier delivery of goods, products and services and report inconsistency with agreed specification, cost or timescales.
- Maintain, as directed, an inventory of assets so that the acquisition and disposal of assets is accounted for.
- As directed, set up and maintain school accounts in accordance with operational and information systems procedures.
- Ensure, as directed, that management or financial information is routinely produced at agreed intervals.
- Maintain current awareness of relevant support service procedures.
- Provide, as directed, administrative support appropriate to the needs of the school.
We can offer you an enthusiastic and committed team within a friendly school community, where we laugh every day!
If you are interested in this position and would like further information please discuss with Mrs Nicki Everitt, School Business Manager. Visits are welcome.
How to apply
To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.
Completed forms should be returned to - sbm@lakenhamprimary.org.uk
No CV’s will be considered.
Closing date: 18 September 2025, 9am (shortlisting will occur that day)
Interview date: TBA
Our school is strongly committed to the safeguarding of children and equality of opportunity. Any applicant must expect to comply fully with enhanced DBS checks. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post.
Successful candidates for interview will have an internet search completed about them, as required in Keeping Children Safe in Education.
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.
About Lakenham Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 409 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lakenham Primary School website
School location
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