Finance Transactional Team Leader
Futura Learning Partnership, Bristol, BS31 1PH27 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 July 2025
Closing date
25 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 31st August 2026
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,366 - £36,124 per annum
Pay scale
- Grade 7, scp 23 - 26
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an inspiring Finance Transactional Team Leader who possesses:
Education/Qualifications:
- AAT part-qualified or equivalent experience (Desirable).
- 5 GCSEs at grade C or above, including Maths and English (Essential).
Experience:
- Practical experience in a finance environment (Essential).
- Experience in a school, academy, or education setting (Desirable).
- Knowledge of financial procedures, controls, and legislation (Essential).
- Experience in suggesting and implementing improvements (Essential).
Skills:
- Line management or supervisory experience (Essential).
- Strong organisational, time management, and prioritisation skills (Essential).
- Excellent numerical, analytical, and communication skills (Essential).
- High attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced environment (Essential).
- Proficient in Excel, financial accounting systems, and education cashless payment systems (Desirable).
Behaviours:
- Proactive, self-motivated, and professional integrity (Essential).
- Ability to guide and influence others to ensure financial controls are followed (Essential).
- High performer, adaptable, and flexible (Essential).
- Collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills (Essential).
Other:
- Commitment to Futura Learning Partnership’s values, equality, diversity, and own professional development (Essential).
- Occasional work outside normal hours, including school holidays, and use of own vehicle for travel (Essential).
Please see the job description attached for a full list of requirements.
What the school offers its staff
- Professional Growth: Continuous Professional Development (CPD), inset days, rotation and secondment opportunities, and leadership succession programmes.
- Wellbeing Support: Initiatives like ‘Wellbeing Moments,’ flexible working arrangements, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental health support.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Generous defined pension schemes, Health Cash-back Plan (covering dentist, physiotherapy appointments etc.), and multiple retail discount schemes.
- Sustainability Commitment: Reducing our carbon footprint through our Climate and Nature initiatives across all schools.
- Inclusive Culture: A collaborative environment where diversity is celebrated, helping staff bring their best selves to work and thrive in their roles.
Further details about the role
Are you a passionate professional ready to build your future?
Do you want to work in a supportive environment where your skills and contributions are valued?
Join us!
At Futura Learning Partnership, we are committed to creating an environment where every employee - whether in teaching, support, or leadership - can flourish. We strive to attract, develop, and retain the very best talent by creating a culture that values professional development, wellbeing, and inclusion.
Your Role in Building Brighter Futures
As a Finance Transactional Team Leader at Futura Learning Partnership,you will play a key role in contributing to the delivery of Futura’s mission statement of “Building the brightest future for all, enabling every individual to flourish”. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about living our values and making a positive impact on all the young people in our Trust.
As a Finance Transactional Team Leader you will be responsible to:
- Lead and manage a team of Finance Assistants, handling performance and absence management.
- Oversee supplier management, including processing purchase orders, invoices, and payments.
- Manage sales ledger processes, including invoice generation and debt management.
- Process payroll adjustments for additional hours and expenses.
- Handle credit card payments and bank reconciliations.
- Ensure accurate reconciliation of key control accounts (e.g., bank, creditor, debtor).
- Administer the Finance system (PSF), ensuring smooth operations and system improvements.
- Monitor compliance with internal policies, financial controls, and audit requirements.
- Actively manage debt recovery and minimise bad debt risks.
- Support internal and external audits, as well as the integration of new schools into the Trust.
- Propose and implement improvements for efficient financial operations.
- Ensure adherence to financial policies, procurement processes, and fraud prevention measures.
- Assist with ad-hoc projects, data analysis, and financial system administration.
- Promote the Trust's values, contribute to safeguarding, and ensure health and safety compliance.
Please see the job description attached for principal accountabilities.
Key Information:
Application Deadline: 25/04/2025 @ 23:59
Interview Date: to be confirmed
Start Date: 01/07/2025
Contract Type: Fixed Term until 31/08/2026
PLEASE NOTE: Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement.
Futura Learning Partnership is Committed to Safeguarding:
Futura Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. For this post, prior to appointment Futura Learning Partnership will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, one of which must be from your existing/most recent employer and completed by a Headteacher/appropriate senior manager/HR Lead, satisfactory pre-employment health screening, online searches and for Teachers, a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. In some settings a Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.
Equal Opportunities:
At Futura Learning Partnership, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is treated fairly. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and are dedicated to supporting our staff to achieve their full potential.
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.
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About Futura Learning Partnership
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- nstachura@futuralearning.co.uk
Futura Learning Partnership is a partnership of schools which span 5 local authority areas: Bath & Northeast Somerset, Bristol, North Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. Working together to provide a high-quality educational experience for all students in their care and be a truly inclusive provider of 3-18 education in the area. We are a mixed MAT, comprising 6 secondary, 21 primary and a special school. We work in partnership with the Diocese of Bath and Wells, which brings considerable benefit to all our schools.
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