What skills and experience we're looking for
Finance Support Officer
Start: ASAP
30 Hours per week/41 weeks per year (term time plus inset days and 2 weeks holiday working)
Payscale: Scale 5 Points -12
Actual Salary £19261-£20512 pa
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Support Officer to join our well-established central finance team. This role, although based at the trust offices, will require an ability and willingness to travel to trust schools, to provide financial processing support.
The Financial Support Officer role will provide purchase requisition processing, general ordering, charge card reconciliation and trip analysis to both primary and secondary schools. The successful candidate will also support budget holders within the school with budget reporting and purchase ordering. The role, overseen by the Trust Finance Manager, will provide an essential link between our schools and the central finance team.
What we are looking for:
• Experience of working in a financial role, ideally within the education sector
• AAT level 3 or above qualifications
• Excellent communication skills, which includes the ability to exchange complex written and verbal information clearly and sensitively
• The ability to prioritise your workload while maintaining accuracy and meeting key deadlines
• Working knowledge of financial management systems
• Ability to travel across all schools within the trust
What we can offer:
• Experienced and supportive leadership with a collaborative approach and an appreciative culture
• An experienced central team where colleagues can flourish and thrive
• Opportunities for staff to develop their own career pathways
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Occupational Health
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 24hr GP Appointments
• Cycle to Work and Tech scheme
For further information contact Katy Walkden, Director of Finance, kwalkden@clptrust.com
The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:
• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual and cultural development of children and young people;
• Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
• The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs
and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.
As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. In line with recommended practice the school will conduct searches for information on shortlisted candidates which is publicly available on-line. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.
What the school offers its staff
What we can offer:
• Experienced and supportive leadership with a collaborative approach and an appreciative culture
• An experienced central team where colleagues can flourish and thrive
• Opportunities for staff to develop their own career pathways
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Occupational Health
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 24hr GP Appointments
• Cycle to Work and Tech scheme
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.