Finance Officer
The Blackpool Sixth Form College, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 7LRThis job expired on 16 January 2026 – see similar jobs
Start date details
mid February 2026
Closing date
16 January 2026 at 9am
Date listed
16 December 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
- £29,536.00 - £33,540.00 per annum; full-time, college staff term time only plus fifteen days.
Finance Officer job summary
Finance Officer
£29,536 to £33,540 per annum for full-time, college staff term time only plus fifteen days.
Do you love getting stuck into spreadsheets? Are you the kind of person who notices when the numbers don’t quite add up? Does the idea of supporting a vibrant sixth form community sound like a role you’d genuinely enjoy?
If you have answered yes to these questions then we want to hear from you!
Blackpool Sixth is a first-class college specialising in 16–19 education, and we’re on the lookout for a friendly, detail-loving Finance Officer to join our brilliant Finance Team on a permanent basis.
We are proud to be part of the Coastal Collaborative Trust, a group of academies committed to giving every young person the very best opportunities. As our new Finance Officer, you’ll primarily be based at Blackpool Sixth but will also support finance processes across our Trust, helping us keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes.
You’ll be joining a small but mighty Finance Team who take pride in what they do! Whether it’s a smooth audit or that perfect reconciliation moment, we celebrate the wins, and we care deeply about accuracy, efficiency and making a real impact across our college community.
A day in your new role as a Finance Officer could see you:
- Working through purchase orders, invoices, staff expenses and supplier payments
- Reconciling bank statements (that satisfying moment when everything matches!)
- Keeping financial records clear, tidy and up to date
- Helping to monitor budgets and preparing reports for leaders across the college and Trust
- Supporting year-end accounts and audit processes
- Getting payroll information ready in partnership with the People Team
- Answering queries from colleagues and suppliers and helping them find the right information
- Providing general support to the finance team and assisting the Finance Lead
If you’re ready to make your next move count, apply now and start your journey with us!
Closing date: Friday 16th January 2026 at 9:00am
Interviews: Friday 23rd January 2026
Find everything you need here to get started with your online application.
The benefits
Our people are extremely important to us and we are therefore delighted to provide the following benefits:-
- Cycle to work scheme for contracts over 12 months
- Free use of the college gym
- A generous pension contribution of 15.4% for support staff. Our teachers are auto-enrolled into Teacher’s Pension Scheme
- Education specific learning and development
- Free car parking
- Subsidised Costa Coffee on site and a wide range of catering outlets
- An in house People & Wellbeing site with loads of self-help guidance
- Access to wellbeing and counselling services for you and your family
- Wellbeing day on Friday 13th February 2026 with the full day off for all
- Long service awards recognising loyalty and dedication
- 15 hours of gifted TOIL (pro-rata) to use for flexibility throughout the year
- Family friendly policies to support our staff with parenting and caring responsibilities
- Be yourself; enjoy being part of a culture and community with different backgrounds, interests, faiths and lifestyles
Our commitment to a safe and respectful environment
We are an equal opportunities employer committed to a diverse and inclusive community. We do not tolerate discrimination and welcome applications from all backgrounds. We provide equal access, services, and care regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity/expression/trans status, race, religion/belief, or sexual orientation.
We are committed to fostering a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for everyone. This includes a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment of any kind. We believe that all individuals deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and we are dedicated to creating a workplace and online community free from harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.We encourage open communication, provide clear reporting mechanisms for misconduct, and conduct thorough investigations. We expect everyone interacting with us to uphold these standards.
All staff will be carefully selected using recruitment and selection procedures designed to emphasise the college’s commitment to safeguarding. All posts, including volunteers, are subject to enhanced DBS clearance. All shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a self-declaration of any criminal record or information that will make them unsuitable to work with children. Any offer of employment may be withdrawn should any information come to light that has not been included in the self-declaration. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from regulated activity relevant to children, anyone caught doing so will be reported to the police immediately. Please note that we reserve the right to review your online presence in line with keeping children safe in education guidance.
Think of your application as a chance to show off and shout about your experience! Below is a list of all the skills we're looking for, so don't be shy, make sure you highlight how you've used them. You'll find a breakdown of what's important for this role in the job description, so give it a good look and make sure your application shines!
Please do not upload your CV; we cannot consider these. Instead make sure that everything we need to know is included in your application.
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 The Blackpool Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth form or college
- School size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Blackpool Sixth Form College website
School location
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