Start date: 17 February 2025 Hours per week: 36.5, All year round Summit Learning Trust Ninestiles Comprehensive School Hartfield Crescent Birmingham B27 7QL Telephone number: 0121 624 9010 Contact email: recruitmentsummitlearningtrust.org Contract type: Permanent Location – Cockshut Hill School, Central Finance Department Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement Success through Endeavour Ambition through Challenge Strength through Diversity Summit Learning Trust are looking to appoint a senior finance officer to join the centralised finance team. You will offer us the ability to manage others and ensure that minimum service levels are maintained. You will have experience of working within a finance role and day to day financial systems, with experience of financial procedures, including purchase ledger and accounts receivable. You will be a competent user of Microsoft Office and confident to learn and use new technologies. You will also hold a level 4 or higher in Maths and English at GCSE (or equivalent) and be able to demonstrate that you are able to work flexibly and have excellent administrative, communication and organisational skills. It is also essential that you can adapt to changing circumstances and work productively in a high-pressure environment. In return we will offer you an exciting opportunity to develop this new and important role within a vibrant and innovative trust, which is seeking to improve educational standards for all our learners across the trust. This role will be based at Cockshut Hill School where the central finance team is currently based but will involve travel on occasion to other Trust sites. About the Trust Why work for us? The Trust offers employee assistance: a strong focus on staff care and wellbeing high quality training and support in and across academies a clear career pathway programme employee discount schemes For an application pack and further information about all our vacancies please visit the trust website. It is anticipated that interviews will be held shortly afterwards. We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all applicants to share this commitment. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. How to Apply Apply via our website. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions. Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.