Finance Officer

Wandle Learning Trust, London, SW11 5DT

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  3 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  14 February 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: £36,300 to £40,950

What skills and experience we're looking for

The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a finance environment (preferably in the education sector) and be committed to delivering work of a high standard with good attention to detail. With good team working skills, the ideal candidate will have a proactive approach to managing their workload and be skilled in building relationships.

What the school offers its staff

Wandle Learning Trust was founded in 2018 and is now a family of five schools. Unique to our Trust is the strong collaboration with Wandle Learning Partnership, which is home to our Teaching School Hub, English Hub and Maths Hub and our not-for-profit phonics programme, Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. Our aim is to ensure that as a result of attending an academy in the Trust, every young person will be inspired and empowered by their education; inspired to build a purposeful and fulfilling life and empowered to make a valuable contribution to the world around them.

We are now recruiting an additional Finance Officer to join our Central Team, working across designated academies in the Trust to support the Headteachers in the financial operations of their schools. You will be the schools’ primary point of contact on all financial matters, including the management of day-to-day income, purchasing and expenditure.

The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a finance environment (preferably in the education sector) and be committed to delivering work of a high standard with good attention to detail. With good team working skills, the ideal candidate will have a proactive approach to managing their workload and be skilled in building relationships.

It’s an exciting time to join the Trust during a period of growth; we need a strong Finance team to support and enable the Trust’s expansion plans. In return for your commitment, we offer a generous staff benefits package and a commitment to career development through funded chartered accountancy study support. This role is being recruited to on a career grade, with the potential to progress through the grade upon successful completion of exams, performance appraisals and progressing on to more advanced financial duties within the schools/Trust.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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About Wandle Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Wandle Learning Trust website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@wandlelearningtrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wandle-learning-trust (opens in new tab)

We are a Multi Academy Trust based in South London. The Trust also runs the Wandle Learning Partnership which is the Trust’s teacher and curriculum development arm. We provide strategic and operational support to our English, Maths and Teaching School Hub, as well as to our not-for-profit phonics programme, Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. We also offer school-to-school support and have our own menu of CPD, and events linked to local needs.

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