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Finance Officer

Finance Officer

Emanuel School

Wandsworth

  • £28,000 - £33,000 per year
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Salary:
£28,000 - £33,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
2 December 2024

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to further your career and enhance your bookkeeping skills and experience within Emanuel School’s busy Finance Team.

The role

As a Finance Officer, you will be responsible for managing our nominal and purchase ledgers, ensuring that all journals and invoices are processed promptly, accounts are reconciled and payments are made accurately.

You will process the weekly BACS run and all ancillary payments, ensuring all invoices are correctly authorised and coded. You will also set up new supplier accounts and maintain existing account details and relationships.

About you

We are looking for individuals with a degree in accounting and excellent financial knowledge, including an understanding of accounts standards, accounting software and VAT. You will either be part qualified or working towards a professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA).

You will need significant experience of bookkeeping/management accounting, monitoring budgets, and setting/adhering to financial controls. Strong attention to detail, as well as good time-management, organisational and MS Excel skills, will also be essential for success in this role.

Working at Emanuel

There is always a buzz at Emanuel. Colleagues enjoy their work and, like the pupils, are ambitious for the school. With a weekly staff briefing, half termly staff meetings, termly consultative group meetings and a common room committee, all of us are engaged in a lively ongoing dialogue about the school’s aims and aspirations.

Everyone works hard here, and anyone joining us should expect to do the same and share our commitment to the highest standards. At the same time our ethos remains unpretentious, kindly and practical, and there’s a strong sense of community and friendship at the school. 

We aim to look after our staff well: we have an appraisal scheme with a focus on employees’ professional development; we sponsor postgraduate courses and a range of training opportunities; we offer a healthcare plan via Simply Health that includes counselling and medical support; and we’re committed to supporting staff wellbeing. Financially, all staff benefit from good pension provision and free lunches.

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

The closing date for applications is Monday 2nd December 2024.

Do note that interviews may be held at any stage after applications are received, so candidates are advised to apply as soon as possible.

Emanuel School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure check by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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About Emanuel School

“The school whole-heartedly fulfils its aims to inspire endeavour, confidence and ambition in its pupils.”

ISI Inspection Report April 2023

Welcome to Emanuel. We are a fully co-ed school of over 1100 pupils, aged 10-18, with over 200 teaching and support staff colleagues.

We are an ambitious community. This summer, 89% of grades at GCSE were awarded 9-7, which is a lift of 39% across recent years. Our A Level A*-A percentage is 64%. This is 31% higher than in 2018 and the school is now recognised as one of the best for academic achievement in the country. The last ISI Inspection report noted that: “Pupils make excellent progress across the range of subjects and significant value is added to their academic outcomes.”

We are committed to developing all our major sports and value pupil participation as well as team and individual achievement. The school’s critical build plan will see a significant investment in our on and off-site sports facilities across the next three years. The same site plan will support the outstanding creative and performing arts teaching at the school, as the school’s plans for a large specialist science teaching block will also allow us to improve our facilities for music and drama, both traditionally areas of strength. We were delighted that these areas were recognised in the 2023 Independent School of the Year Awards when we won the award for our performing arts.

Beyond the classroom, we have a thriving partnerships programme, helping to develop our pupils at all ages as they participate in this work, and benefiting the local community, with over 1000 primary school children coming to use our site and work with our pupils each month. In 2021 we won the Independent School of the Year Award for our community outreach work.

At the heart of our school is a positive and welcoming culture. We are fortunate to have a committed and talented group of colleagues, people who recognise the importance of everyone at the school having a varied and fulfilling working life, giving them a sense of personal growth and shared enjoyment.

We wish you the best of luck with your application.

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