Full-Time Finance Assistant
Job Description
Regional Finance Assistant
Reports to: Finance Manager
Location: Ark Globe School, part of the Ark Schools South London region
Contract: Permanent
Pattern: Full Time (37.5 hours per week/ standard hours 9am – 5.30pm)
Closing date: 30/08/2023 at 10am
Interviews: w/c 04/09/2023
Salary: £23,500 to £27,500 (depending on experience)
About the role:
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity where you can be part of a strong team? Do you have a passion for finance processes and embedding best practice? Do you have a head for numbers? If so, this might just be the perfect role for you!
This is an exciting opportunity to join Ark Schools’ Regional finance team, in a full-time, permanent role, supporting Ark’s secondary academies in South London.
As Finance Assistant your role is an integral part of the schools in the region, responsible for ensuring high standards of financial integrity. Based in Ark Greenwich Free School, you will manage the daily and monthly financial processes in the school, ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Academies Financial Handbook.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working closely with the Finance Manager and other finance and operations leads to ensure the continuing financial stability of the school
- Placing orders, receiving goods, and maintaining a professional relationship with suppliers
- Ensuring accurate and timely processing of purchase invoices and other documents using Concur and PS Financials accounting software, reconciling supplier statements, and preparing payment runs for authorisation
Key Requirements:
- Experience of running effective administrative and financial systems, ideally within a school environment
- High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel. PSF financials and SAP Concur desirable
- Experience using financial databases and confidence and interest in learning new technologies
- Ability to manage own time to enable multi-school regional working
- Works productively in a high-pressure environment
Your duties in each school may vary slightly to support the current Finance team(s) in place.
View the full job description and person specification here
About Ark
We’re an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we’re a network of 39 schools, educating around 28,500 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference and we’re recognised as one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country. We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools. So, we create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.
You’ll be joining a group of like-minded, ambitious individuals who work collaboratively and are all committed to our core mission, that every child has the potential to succeed. Having just celebrated our 20th anniversary, we are shaping our goals for the next 20 and there has never been a more exciting time to join us.
Benefits
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with each year of service up to 30 days after 3-years’ service. This entitlement is pro rata for part time employees. This entitlement excludes bank holidays
- Full office closure between Christmas and New Year
- A flexible approach to working with understanding and consideration for work life balance and personal commitments
- As an Ark employee, you will have the opportunity to be part of the TPT (The Pension Trust) scheme, our workplace pension scheme where we make an 11% contribution; you are not required to contribute towards this scheme unless you choose to. Depending on your role you may also be entitled to LGPS which is a defined benefit scheme where you contribute a percentage based on how much you earn (as do we) in exchange for a guaranteed amount in your pension pot every year
- Access to high-quality professional learning throughout your career, offering both face-to-face sessions and a bespoke online learning platform
- Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers, interest-free loans available for season tickets or a bike, gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym and free eye tests
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment – this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.
How to Apply
Apply with a CV and cover letter on our online recruitment portal. Applications to be submitted by Wednesday 30th August 2023 at 10am but please note: we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this advert may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. Click here to apply This ATS application form should take no longer 20 minutes to complete. At any time, you can pause, save, and log back in. If you have any difficulty with meeting the deadline for application, please contact recruitment@arkonline.org Interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.96 total views, 0 today