Senior Finance Officer
Summit Learning Trust, Birmingham, B27 7QG5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,366– £40,476
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for who:
- Has the ability to manage others and ensuring that minimum service levels are maintained
- Has experience of working with day to day financial systems.
- Has experience of financial procedures, including purchase ledger and accounts receivable.
- Has experience of liaising with pupils, non-financial staff members and external suppliers and resolving queries.
- Listens well, communicates clearly and fluently
- Maintains confidentiality, integrity and discretion
- Adapts to the team and helps to build team spirit
- Relates well to people at all levels
- Works productively in a high-pressure environment
- Adapts to changing circumstances
- Ability to rapidly learn new tasks and/or systems or processes
- Sets high standards for quality and quantity
- Works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way
- Manages time effectively
- Delivers positive business outcomes
- Accepts and tackles goals with enthusiasm
- Uses technology to achieve work objectives
- Has excellent administrative, communication and organisational skills.
What the school offers its staff
We Offer:
- Employee assistance
- A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
- High quality training and support in and across academies
- A clear career pathway programme
- Employee discount schemes
Further details about the role
Summit Learning Trust are looking to appoint a Senior Finance Officer to join the centralised finance team.
You will offer us the ability to manage others and ensure that minimum service levels are maintained. You will have experience of working within a finance role and day to day financial systems, with experience of financial procedures, including purchase ledger and accounts receivable. You will be a competent user of Microsoft Office and confident to learn and use new technologies.
You will also hold a level 4 or higher in Maths and English at GCSE (or equivalent) and be able to demonstrate that you are able to work flexibly and have excellent administrative, communication and organisational skills. It is also essential that you can adapt to changing circumstances and work productively in a high-pressure environment.
In return we will offer you an exciting opportunity to develop this new and important role within a vibrant and innovative trust, which is seeking to improve educational standards for all our learners across the trust.
This role will be based at Cockshut Hill School where the central finance team is currently based but will involve travel on occasion to other Trust sites
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 Summit Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01216249010
About the Trust
https://www.summitlearningtrust.org.uk
Why work for us?
The Trust offers:
• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High Quality training and support in and across academies
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all applicants to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, including a Children’s barred list check
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