Finance Manager - Kingsleigh Primary School

Finance Officer required ASAP

Kingsleigh Primary School is a true community school and we firmly believe it is our responsibility to educate the children in our community.  We believe that all children have the right to an education and actively promote educating the whole child and offering them the support they need to achieve both academically and personally.

We are seeking to appoint an efficient and proactive full-time Finance Officer to be responsible for carrying out finance duties within our school.  This position is being offered on a permanent contract. 

Working hours are 37.5 hours per week from 8am to 4pm with a 30-minute break for lunch - term time plus 1 week of holiday working.  Salary being offered (depending on experience) is Grade 4-5 - £25,584-29,093 pro rata.

We are looking for someone who:

• has experience of working in a finance role
• has a competent level of skill using various IT devices and equipment
• can demonstrate excellent inter-personal skills
• is enthusiastic about running an orderly and efficient working environment and is always looking to improve systems and procedures
• remains professional and positive under pressure

We can offer:

• a caring ethos and a staff team who support each other
• an exciting vision for the future of our learning community
• a commitment to your professional development
• scope to develop ideas and innovate
• a staff who trust in each other and thrive on working as a team
• strong and sensitive leadership by Directors and Senior Leaders
  
  

Closing date for applications:            Wednesday 5^th February 2025 at midday

Interviews will be held on:                     w/c 10^th February 2025

Please send completed application forms to [email protected].

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide 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. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Kingsleigh school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.