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Trust Payroll and Finance Officer

Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 5RL

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• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  23 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,624.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE) H6/7 dependent upon experience

Trust Payroll and Finance Officer job summary

Trust Payroll and Finance Officer

Required as soon as possible

Grade - H6/7 dependent upon experience

Part/Full Time (min 15 hours)

Permanent - Term time plus 4 weeks

We are seeking an experienced payroll/finance officer to take on payroll for 3 Trust schools initially. Based in the AET Hub at Garden Fields JMI, in the event of part time hours this will be required to be annualised to ebb and flow with the needs of payroll.

Primary responsibilities will include the accurate and timely administration of the monthly payroll for some of the Trust’s 700+ employees utilising the Edupay system and working with Edupay to ensure timely and accurate monthly submissions, pension schemes and all regulatory bodies (e.g. HMRC). You will be required to interpret and process large volumes of complex and sensitive payroll and pension related information and be the first point of contact for pay related queries.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, proven data analysis and numeracy experience with exceptional attention to detail. You will have an understanding, or willingness to develop and aptitude to learn, financial processes and procedures, and of basic financial policies and accounting code structures including purchase ledgers.

Please apply in writing to Mrs A.Barclay, Trust CPFO, via hr@aetrust.uk demonstrating:

• The required knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the post

• Your vision and progression of the post

• Your ability to work collaboratively to achieve the highest possible standards

Closing Date for applications: 9am Friday 20 June 2025

Interview Date: From Monday 23 June 2025

For further information and a job description, please speak to the HR Team.

AET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post with AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Our aim is to build on our proven track records of maintaining exceptional standards and driving continuous school improvement. We are building a collaborative partnership of schools which will provide an exceptional educational experience, both within and outside the classroom, by promoting excellence and stretching challenge.

We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.

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.

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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 Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 480 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/garden-fields-junior-mixed-and-infant-school

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