Trust Finance Assistant

Spark Education Trust, Stockton-On-Tees, TS17 0RJ

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  1 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, term time plus 10 days (the possibility of whole time working would be considered)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £23,394 to £24,307
• Pay scale: Grade F, SCP 7 to 8

What skills and experience we're looking for

About the Role

Spark Education Trust are looking to appoint a highly motivated and suitably experienced individual for the role of Trust Finance Assistant. The post holder will be based at our Trust Offices at Whinstone Primary School working with our supportive and enthusiastic Central Finance Team. The Central Team are responsible for supporting 15 schools comprising of 4 secondary schools and 11 primary schools.

Key responsibilities include:

• Processing invoices and resolving queries
• Processing income received and resolving queries
• Raising purchase orders on behalf of the Trust and academies.
• Processing debtors invoices as required
• Process expense claims in line with Trust procedures
• Assist in the administration and reconciliation of all credit card usage
• Assist with the collation of information and preparation of regular reports
• Liaising and dealing with financial enquiries and queries from staff and parents, particularly relating to Arbor payments.
• To maintain manual and computerised systems including inputting data, keeping records, statistics, confidential and general filing systems as directed.

The right candidate:

• AAT level 2 qualified or relevant experience
• A strong team player and excellent communicator
• Competent at use of excel with the experience and ability to communicate financial data to both internal and external customers or colleagues.
• Proactive and self-motivated using your initiative, in a changing educational landscape.

What the school offers its staff

• A positive and caring ethos and working atmosphere.
• A committed, enthusiastic and supportive staff team.
• Opportunities for career development.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Trust Finance Assistant Candidate Pack September 2026.pdf - 371 KB (opens in new tab)

About Spark Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: vacancies@sparkeducation.org.uk
• Phone number: 01642 051020
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/vision-academy-learning-trust

About Spark Education Trust.
We are a newly merged Trust comprising 4 secondary and 11 primary schools located across the Tees Valley and we provide opportunities for children and young people to reach their full potential, whatever their starting point. We know that this is best achieved in encouraging environments where mutual and self-respect is promoted. We want to grow confident young people able to work independently and think creatively in a fast-changing world.

We have high expectations for everyone, aspiring to excellence in teaching and achieving impressive standards is all areas of school life. Success beyond the classroom in sport and the arts are features of life across our Trust.

For our staff we provide positive working environments, a commitment to the highest quality professional development, opportunities to collaborate to create excellence and encouragement to forge career success.

Trustees, governors and leaders collaborate closely to ensure excellence in all aspects of Spark Education Trust. Our core values are mutual respect, hearty collaboration and courageous ambition and these drive our work ensuring that Spark schools are wonderful places to work.

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