Finance Officer Required

Finance Officer Required

Gipsy Hill Federation - Kingswood Primary School

Immediate start until end of Academic year

Full Time

Are you an experienced Finance Officer?

Do you live in or around South London?

The Supply Register is currently working in partnership with the Gipsy Hill Federation, and we are looking to recruit an experienced Finance Officer with an ASAP start until May with the possibility of extending.

As Finance Officer your role is an integral part of the schools in the region, responsible for ensuring high standards of financial integrity. You will have a home school (Kingswood Primary School) where you will manage the daily and monthly financial processes in the school, ensuring compliance with the requirements of the School’s Financial Handbook. You will work closely with (and report to) the Finance Manager as well as the Principal and Operations Manager. As a Regional Finance team member, you will also provide support to other Finance leads across the Region. Your duties in each school may vary slightly as you may be required to support the current Finance team(s) in place.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Finance Manager and other finance and operations leads to ensure the continuing financial stability of the school
• Placing orders, receiving goods, and maintaining a professional relationship with suppliers
• Ensuring accurate and timely processing of purchase invoices and other documents using the current systems such as Approvemax and Xero, reconciling supplier statements, and preparing payment runs for authorisation with support from school finance teams where appropriate
• Reconciling schools bank accounts, credit card statements and financial ledgers
• Operating petty cash; receiving, recording and banking monies paid into the school, ensuring all monies outstanding are collected.
• Assisting the Finance Manager with the preparation of month end and year end accounts
• Working with the Operations leads to ensure goods and services are processed in compliance with current and relevant procurement legislation, ensuring best value is achieved
• Assist with the administration of school’s parent payment system Other
• Carry out other reasonable tasks as directed by the Finance Manager
• To be willing to undertake appropriate training in line with contractual duties

Requirements

• Hold Right to Work in the UK
• Hold an enhanced child barred list DBS certificate registered with the online update service or be willing to process a new application
• Provide a minimum of two professional references
• Experience within a similar role.
• Experience using Approvemax and Xero is essential.

Please apply now and a member of The Supply Register Team will be in touch!