Senior Finance Officer

Life Education Trust, Romford, RM1 2RR

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  11 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  1 June 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: £30,630.00 - £32,931.00 Annually (FTE)

Senior Finance Officer job summary

At the LIFE Education Trust, our mission is 'To build great learning communities where children flourish'. To accomplish our mission, we keep our 3 core beliefs at the heart of everything we do: Courageous Optimism, Boundless Creativity and Heartfelt Compassion. We support our schools to deliver excellent pupil outcomes, create vibrant, exciting environments and offer rewarding careers for employees.

About this Role

We are looking to appoint a high-calibre Senior Finance Officer to join our talented and supportive team at LIFE Education Trist. The Senior Finance Officer will work closely within the central team, supporting the schools within the Trust, under the direction of the Finance Manager.

Job PurposeProviding an accounts payable and contract management service to the schools within the Trust and support the Finance Manager and CFOO in their roles.You will:

• Input invoices and prepare month end BACS runs for all schools in the Trust
• Prepare and journal any month end payments accruals
• Liaise with the Admin Support Officers and Hub Operations Managers to ensure the procurement process jas been performed and erecorded correctly
• Log and actively manage contracts across the Trust
• Ensure adherence to Procurement Laws and the Academies Trust handbook
• Support the Finance Manager and Hub Operations Manager at month end

The successful candidate will be part of a positive environment, with dedicated and supportive colleagues who strive for excellence. In return you will be working with friendly colleagues in a stimulating and welcoming learning environment.

In return we can offer you:

• Welcoming and friendly colleagues
• A stimulating and welcoming learning environment with excellent facilities, including a farm, an art gallery and our own railway
• Other further qualifications Opportunities.
• Access to the Schools Advisory Service (SAS), the Trust’s employee well-being support and medical programme. This includes 24-hour-a-day access to a GP helpline for you and those within your household, a counselling service, stress management, weight loss programme, physiotherapy, menopause support and much more.
• Links with the local community, including our charity partner, The Trussell Trust Food Bank
• Increased priority in admission to our school for your child/ren
• Close proximity to the M25, Romford Railway Station (Elizabeth Line) and on a main bus route

For further information about this role, please email recruitment@lifeeducationtrust.com. Visits to the school are welcomed.

Join us and help is to achieve our vision of 'Everyone flourishes'.We are looking for brilliant people who share and demonstrate our beliefs to join us.

The Trust reserves the right to interview prior to the deadline date.

We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds and all parts of the community, particularly people from ethnic minorities who are currently under-represented. LIFE Education Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.

Commitment to safeguarding

At LIFE Education Trust, we prioritise the safety and welfare of our students. All staff and volunteers are expected to share our commitment to safeguarding children from abuse.
Our schools comply with the 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' guidelines, which require shortlisted candidates to submit a self-declaration of their criminal record before an interview.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and an enhanced DBS disclosure check is mandatory for the successful applicant.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Life Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Life Education Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/life-education-trust

LIFE Education Trust is a multi-academy trust with 11 schools in Havering and across Essex .

Our mission is to build great learning communities which unleash creativity and champion optimism, in a spirit of compassion.

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