Accounts Payable Supervisor - ref. h97145623
What skills and experience we're looking for
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Balcarras Trust is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.
MAIN PURPOSE:
This is an ideal role for a positive, personable, energetic person with excellent organisational and administrative skills including the ability to work to deadlines and flexibility to take on new tasks as they arise
This is a part time role, for 30 hours a week, on a year round basis. The holiday entitlement is 25 days plus bank holidays.
We’re looking for a friendly, organised person with a real ‘can do’ attitude and a passion for doing a great job. The role will offer a variety of tasks and responsibilities – making a flexible/adaptable approach to your work essential.
We are looking for these skills:
ÞExperience of working in an accounts payable function in a medium sized organization (no specific education sector experience is needed).
ÞExperience of working with supplier portals.
ÞExperience of working with finance systems. No specific experience of Iris Financials needed.
ÞIntermediate level Excel skills – working with tables, and lookups.
What the school offers its staff
What is it like working at Balcarras?
It is a very exciting and rewarding time to be working at Balcarras. Our latest GCSE grades were extraordinary and put us in the Top 30 comprehensive schools in the country based on the percentage of pupils gaining 5+ in English and Maths. At A-level the picture was similar. We were listed by the Sunday Times as the second highest performing comprehensive school in the Southwest in Parent Power published in November 2023.It is this commitment to the highest academic standards, whilst at the same time being a caring and stimulating environment, that makes Balcarras feel different from anywhere else.
As part of the Balcarras Trust, our teaching staff have access to outstanding professional development networks including NPQs and ECTs if appropriate.
Balcarras is a great place to work, from staff football and wreath making sessions to Chinese cookery —Balcarras creates opportunities for staff cohesion. We recently ran a whole Trust staff inset on staff wellbeing that covered topics such as physical well being, mental well being, financial wellbeing and reducing workload .Both staff and pupils benefit from Buddy the school dog who is the one of best appointments ever made!
Commitment to safeguarding
Balcarras School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role will involve regulated activity with children. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.Please also read the Recruitment Selection and Disclosure Policy within “How to apply” which includes our policy on recruiting ex-offenders. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and receipt of two satisfactory references.