Senior Finance and Payroll Officer
Northfleet School for Girls, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8AQDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week and the working pattern is 08:00 - 16:00 Monday to Thursday / 08:00 - 15:30 Friday. Term Time plus 3 weeks during school closures: 1 week at Easter, 1 week in Summer, 1 week as needed (42 weeks per year).
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Kent Scheme KR8 £27,340 - £30,898 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a Senior Finance and Payroll Officer to oversee the financial and payroll operations. The key areas of focus are ensuring financial controls are adhered to across the school, responsible for end to end payroll procedures, and supporting the Business Operations Manager with management of the finance function.
The successful candidate will ideally have previous payroll and school finance experience, however full training will be provided. We are looking for an ambitious candidate that may have aspirations for a School Business Manager role in the future.
What the school offers its staff
Why work at our school?
- A clear commitment to staff wellbeing through our wellbeing charter, including workload reviews, wellbeing meeting slots, paid staff social organiser, wellbeing spaces and free use of our professional fitness suite
- Outstanding facilities, including our community farm, fitness suite, recording studio, expansive library, new MUGA and professional performing arts spaces.
- Very strong use of IT across the school including 1-1 laptop scheme and interactive touch screens in all classrooms.
- Performance management reviews take place annually in September with the opportunity for a performance related pay increase once an employee is eligible i.e. has been employed long enough for evidence to be provided
Commitment to safeguarding
Northfleet School for Girls and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 statutory guidance.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Northfleet School for Girls
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1283 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Northfleet School for Girls website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- j.annable@nsfg.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01474 831020
Northfleet School for Girls is a vibrant and caring school with a great community feel. Over recent years we have been growing rapidly (62% increase in student roll since 2017) and we believe this is down to the following key areas:
- A real passion to develop the whole student as well as achieve excellent academic progress
- A dedicated staffing team who really care and a clear commitment by leaders to staff wellbeing
- Great student behaviour and engagement, allowing staff and students to flourish
Our vision is that all students should "dream big and achieve" through the following:
- High expectations in all aspects of school life including uniform, attendance, behaviour and academic achievement
- Working together through truly valuing positive working relationships with staff, students and parents
- Enjoying the journey, we strongly believe that all involved in our community can enjoy being at our school and create lasting positive memories.
We are at a very exciting stage of realising our aspirational vision through the following:
- Very strong academic achievement, significantly above Kent similar school averages
- Continued oversubscription across school
- A key emphasis that we are not an exam factory, we seek to develop the whole person with equal importance to academic performance
- Valuing and developing our committed staff team through wellbeing support and further career opportunities
- A strong financial position allowing us to invest for the future
Arranging a visit to Northfleet School for Girls
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email j.annable@nsfg.org.uk.
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