POSITION: SENIOR FINANCE OFFICER
SCALE: APT&C Scale 5 (point 22- 25)
HOURS & PAY: 35 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Closing Date: Friday 21st March 2025
PURPOSE OF JOB:
* To assist the School Business Leader in providing an outstanding level of performance in the financial administration of the school
* Ensure financial administration is completed in a timely manner to agreed internal timescales
* To be responsible for safeguarding and the welfare of all children within the school
MAIN ACTIVITES:
* Maintain manual and computerised financial records for all matters relating to school income and expenditure
* To lead the finance team in ensuring all financial administration such as placing orders, invoicing, preparing cheques, issuing receipts are completed in a timely manner.
* Deal with budget queries, advising on solutions where appropriate
* Be point of contact with external suppliers to resolve queries/problems
* Adopt a solution focussed approach in all areas of financial administration
* Be responsible for the security of unused cheques and other controlled stationery relating to financial administration
* Helping to ensure the school is following Best Value procedures
* Ensure preparation of orders, check full receipt, ensure payment of goods and services in carried out in a timely and professional manner
* To ensure all income is banked regularly to agreed timescales
* Continually evaluate all finance systems to ensure they are effective and efficient
* Attend any necessary financial meetings along with the School Business Leader
* Line management of Finance Officers
* To work with The Trust in ensuring all processes are fully implemented
* To work the School Business Leader with all Audit inspections.
REVIEW ARRANGEMENTS
The details contained in this reflect the content of the job at the date it was prepared. It should be remembered, however, that over time the nature of individual jobs will change, existing duties may no longer be required and other duties may be gained without changing the general nature of the duties or the level of the responsibility entailed. Consequently, the school will expect to revise the from time to time and will consult with the post holder at the appropriate time.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The above responsibilities are subject to the general duties and responsibilities contained in the written statement of conditions of employment (The contract). The post holder is required to support and encourage the school’s ethos and its objectives, policies and procedures as agreed by the governing body:
* To uphold the school’s policy in respect of child protection matters
* The post holder may be required to perform any other reasonable tasks after consultation
* This allocates duties and responsibilities but does not direct the particular amount of time to be spent on carrying them out and no part of it may be so constructed
* This is not necessarily a comprehensive definition of the post. It may be subject to modification at any time after consultation with the post holder