Please note: This role is open to full time and part time candidates
We have an opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join our Centralised Finance Team, supporting schools across the Trust.
As a highly motivated and efficient individual, you will be comfortable working independently while contributing to the wider finance function. You will handle a range of financial tasks, including processing invoices, purchase orders, and BACS payments, alongside monitoring spend and reconciling supplier statements. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential, as you will engage with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
The ability to manage a busy workload, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities is key. You should be organised, detail-focused, and ready to work flexibly under pressure with a positive and solution-focused approach.
If you are looking to develop your finance career and make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
What will you do?
* Support financial administration across the Trust
* Organise and maintain Contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLA) file updating information.
* Processing of Purchase Orders from requisitions, accurately and in accordance with agreed authorisation and timescales
* To provide financial information reports from the finance system for finance managers and give advice as requested
Why should you apply?
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
* NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
* Flexible working opportunities
* Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
* Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
* Cycle-to-work Scheme
* Free staff lunch and on-site parking
What are we looking for?
* Experience working in a Finance/busy Administration department
* High standard of accuracy/presentation with a good eye for detail
* Decisive and shows resilience whilst working under pressure
* The ability to work with initiative and multi-task during frequent interruption
* Organised with the ability to meet tight deadlines and work under minimal supervision
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
Further information
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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