Regional Finance Officer

Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS

26 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  17 February 2026

• Closing date

  15 March 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 February 2026

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: SCP 22-26 (£32654 - £36124)

Regional Finance Officer job summary

Regional Finance Officer – Oasis Community Learning – North West Region

If numbers are your thing and you are a whizz with finance software and spreadsheets, then you definitely speak our language and we may well have an opportunity to interest you.

Oasis Community Learning is a business with a community purpose and vision to help every young person and community member to thrive and succeed, regardless of background or label. We are an Academy Trust operating in some the UKs most challenging areas and employ amazing teachers, brilliant support staff and a whole host of dedicated people in our central functions. One of which is Finance. But we are slightly short on resource right now and need to hire a numerate professional to bolster our team.

The workload for a Finance function in a Trust of 56 schools and over 5000 employees is always high but add to that a number of projects designed to help us become more efficient and effective means we need some solid accounting horsepower in the region.

As a Finance Officer in a supportive team you will work primarily from our academy in Clarksfield, Oldham (with occasional days from home) dealing with transactional processing, purchase and sales ledgers and balance sheets. You’ll thrive in a world where orderliness and attention to detail is expected and where you derive great joy in things adding up just as they should.

In return we’ll give you flexibility, support and an opportunity to grow your skills, working alongside experienced finance professionals. You’ll know that your efforts will go towards the organisation’s mission to help the most disadvantaged to progress and to flourish. And that’s a good feeling at the end of anyone’s day.

Want to put your numerical, logical brain to good use – here’s what we are looking for:

• Experience with Transactional processing: Purchase ledger, Sales ledger, Receipts & Payments.

• Purchase ledger maintenance: BACS payments, reconciliations, debit balances, supplier account creation

• Sales ledger maintenance: Invoice management, debt chasing

• Bank Account maintenance: Reconciliation, filing, administration, payment runs

• Finance systems: creation of accounts, resolve queries

• Other duties: from credit card queries to ad hoc support to colleagues.

Ideally you will have worked and be familiar with finance systems and be an advanced user of Excel.

You’ll be reliable, accurate and willing to get stuck in as part of a collaborative and highly supportive team.

If this sounds like a great way to move onwards and upwards in your career – we are hiring now, so please complete the application form including a short cover statement as soon as possible highlighting why we would be missing an opportunity not to bring you into our team.

When you complete your application, remember to evidence the key requirements of the role detailed in the Job Description attached in your supporting statement.

We will be aiming to hold interviews in early March so a quick application would be advised as we may close the role early if we get a good response.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Oasis Community Learning

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Oasis Community Learning website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oasis-community-learning

The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.

Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.

We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.

Together, Oasis staff aspire to:

Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students

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