Senior Finance Officer - Birmingham - ref. i54943319
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our ideal candidate would have:
- The ability to manage others and ensuring that minimum service levels are maintained
- Experience of working with day to day financial systems.
- Experience of financial procedures, including purchase ledger and accounts receivable.
- Experience of liaising with pupils, non-financial staff members and external suppliers and resolving queries.
- Be a competent user of Microsoft Office and confident to learn and use new technologies.
- Listens well, communicates clearly and fluently
- Maintains confidentiality, integrity and discretion
- Adapts to the team and helps to build team spirit
- Relates well to people at all levels
- Works productively in a high-pressure environment
- Adapts to changing circumstances
- Ability to rapidly learn new tasks and/or systems or processes
- Sets high standards for quality and quantity
- Works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way
- Manages time effectively
- Delivers positive business outcomes
- Accepts and tackles goals with enthusiasm
- Uses technology to achieve work objectives
- Excellent administrative, communication and organisational skills.
What the school offers its staff
Why work for us?- Employee assistance The Trust offers:
- 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
Further details about the role
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.
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.