School Finance Officer

• Finance Officer


• Full-time


• Lambeth


• 18 month placement


• 30am to 4.30pm


• Term time only (plus 2 weeks in April)

A well-organised nursery in Lambeth is looking for an experienced and motivated Finance officer to join their team in early October to provide financial admin support and work alongside the Finance Manager.

Job role

In the role you will be working closely with the Office Manager, the School Business Manager and the Finance Manager, where you will be providing support across a range of areas in school financial administration. A large proportion of your role will include daily use of SIMS and FMS, so you should have a very good working knowledge of both systems.

As a finance officer your role will include:

• Supporting finance procedures and school invoicing


• Supporting stock management, ordering and monitoring.

• Understanding school finance and processing invoices to orders and reconciling suppliers' statements, handling queries and discrepancies.


• Having a good knowledge to confidently use a variety of systems and databases


• Assisting the Business Manager and Finance Officer with any other finance and administration tasks as required.

The School

The school is a popular term-time only nursery school is based in Tulse Hill. They have a welcoming, friendly staff team, led by an established management team. If you have previous experience working with young children school and are looking for a part-time position in the Tulse Hill area, this is an ideal role to apply for.

To apply for this role you must have the following:

• Good working knowledge of SIMS and FMS


• Be extremely organised in finance


• Have a friendly and calm approach


• Be available on a full-time basis

To apply for this role, please apply with an up to date CV outlining your skills and experience.

We have a policy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Philosophy Education is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.