Job Description

Regional Finance Assistant

Reporting to: Finance Manager

Location: Ark Greenwich Free 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: 16/08/2023 at 10am

Interviews: w/c 21/08/2023

Salary: £23,500 to £27,500 (depending on experience)

About the role:

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 Regional Finance Assistant your role is an integral part of the schools in the region, responsible for ensuring high standards of financial integrity. You will have a home school (Ark Greenwich Free School) where you will manage the daily and monthly financial processes in the school, ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Academies Financial Handbook.  You will work closely with (and report to) the Finance Manager as well as the Principal and Operations Manager. As a Regional Finance team member, you will also provide support to other Finance leads across the Region.

Your duties in each school may vary slightly as you may be required to support the current Finance team(s) in place.

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
• Reconciling schools bank accounts, credit card statements and financial ledgers
• Operating petty cash; receiving, recording and banking monies paid into the school, ensuring all monies outstanding are collected
• Assisting the Finance Manager with the preparation of month end and year end accounts
• Assist with the administration of school’s parent payment system
• Support other schools in the region as necessary

Key Requirements:

• English and Maths GCSE grade A-C, or equivalent
• Part-qualified AAT, ACCA, CIMA, ACA (desirable)
• 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 Concur desirable
• Experience using financial databases and confidence and interest in learning new technologies
• Ability to skilfully manage and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders
• High standards and a keen eye for detail

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 20^th 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

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 20,000 - 40,000.

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