School Finance Officer
Twynham School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 1JF9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 8am
Date listed
5 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 26 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Support staff salary points 6 – 9 £25,183 to £26,409 (FTE) £16,003 to £16,782 pro rata With a pay award pending
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we are looking for
We would love to hear from you if you:
- are a self-starter who can use their initiative
- have the ability to drive change to make processes more robust and/or efficient
- have excellent interpersonal skills and gravitas to interact with trust and school leaders on a regular basis
- can travel independently between trust sites
You will also be keen to live our Twynham Learning employee values which are:
- Aim high
- Keep improving
- Don’t leave anyone behind
- See the bigger picture
What the school offers its staff
About the Post
Our Finance Officer will support with high-quality operational finance processing across Twynham School and The Grange School (known collectively as ‘Twynham TGS’), within the Twynham Learning Multi Academy Trust. This role will deliver transactional processing and reporting across multiple business areas to a high standard. This is an opportunity to work within a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a team of friendly, supportive, professional Finance experts.
Twynham School is a very special place with an excellent reputation both locally and nationally. We are a heavily over-subscribed school where achievement is exceptionally high, students are well-behaved and eager to learn and relationships are very special.
This post is based primarily at Twynham School but you are likely to work regularly across both of our sites.
We are looking for an outstanding individual who will relish the opportunity to assist with:
- Management of bank accounts and petty cash, including posting ledger transactions and reconciling regularly
- Posting of all transactions onto accounting ledger
- Month end reconciliations of control accounts
- Process all ordering, in line with MAT policies
- Preparation of supplier payments
- Taking bookings of school facilities
- Preparation of all lettings and other sale ledger invoicing
- Managing group email inboxes
- Setting up and monitoring payments through Arbor (our management information system) for extra-curricular activities
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people in accordance with our Safeguarding and Child Protection policies
What we can offer you
- Automatic membership of the Dorset Local Government Pension Scheme
- Free, confidential access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which offers a range of counselling services plus financial, legal and practical support from qualified professionals on a range of personal issues and access to online health and wellbeing resources
- A trust-wide intranet, where we share our news, information and resources
- Local discounts negotiated on behalf of our staff e.g. gym memberships, hair and beauty salons, chiropractic care, cycle shops, restaurants, motoring services, and retail/DIY stores
- Access to national discounts on a wide variety of huge brands
- A welcoming staff room with complimentary tea and coffee available throughout the day
- Free on-site parking
- The opportunity to work within Twynham Learning; a progressive multi-academy trust
- The opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful areas of the South Coast
Further details about the role
Any questions?
To discuss the post or your application, please contact Alison Brown on 01202 495716 or email us at recruitment@twynhamlearning.com
How to apply
To apply for this vacancy, please submit a Job Application Form and Diversity Questionnaire by email to: recruitment@twynhamlearning.com
Only applications made using our own official application form will be accepted. You can download the form and questionnaire here: www.twynhamlearning.com/187/staff-vacancies
The closing date for applications is Monday 16 June 2025 at 8am. Interviews to be held Friday 20 June.
However, we reserve the right to interview and/or appoint strong candidates before this, so we encourage you to apply early.
Commitment to safeguarding
We value diversity and inclusiveness. We want our workforce to be representative of all sections of our community, so we give equal opportunities. We don't discriminate on age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race/colour/nationality, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation. We'll only consider people who can evidence their right to work in the UK. We're committed to robust Safer Recruitment processes to safeguard children. We undertake enhanced criminal records checks before appointment. Candidates must disclose all unprotected spent and unspent cautions and convictions. It is an offence to apply if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.
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About Twynham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1771 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Twynham School website
- Email address
- recruitment@twynhamlearning.com
- Phone number
- 01202495716
Twynham School is an exceptionally special place; a school which believes in the unlimited potential of every child, where people are valued above all and ultimately a place where every child can be successful. Our long-tradition of success is built on two vital pillars; high quality teaching and learning and, most importantly, the value we place on the very special relationships between students and staff.
Arranging a visit to Twynham School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@twynhamlearning.com.
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