Accounts Assistant (Maternity Cover)
Mary Hare School
West Berkshire
- £15,275.10 per year
- New
- Salary:
- NJC
- Job type:
- Part Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 25 July 2024
Job overview
Hours: 21 hours per week
Responsible to: Head of Finance
The Role:
The Accounts Assistant supports the busy finance team on a range of administrative and accounting activities including reconciliations and analysis. Key areas of responsibility being the management of the school purchase ledger and accounting for Mary Hare Services Ltd.
Mary Hare is a charity and a company limited by guarantee dedicated to promoting and providing education for children and young adults with hearing and related disabilities. The organisation operates a Secondary School, a Primary School, and a Training Services division, which trains teachers of the deaf and audiologists. Its commercial activities include providing school facilities for an international Summer School, weddings, and the Arlington Arts Centre for commercial theatre, conferences, and other events.
We are seeking applications for the role of Accounts Assistant at Mary Hare working within our busy Finance department, ensuring the effective financial management of the school. The finance team closely support one another and are committed to the highest of outcomes for students, staff and the wider community.
Ideally you will have experience of working within an Accounts/Finance team and familiar with general accounting and purchase ledger processing. You will be organised, a good communicator and experienced with Excel and Microsoft Office.
General:
Mary Hare educates 240 profoundly deaf children at its residential school in Berkshire and we pride ourselves on our pupils’ achievements at GCSE, A Level as well as BTEC and Vocational Courses. We offer the opportunity to teach highly motivated children, in small classes, where you can make a real difference at this national centre of excellence for deaf education. No knowledge of sign language is required, as we follow an auditory/oral philosophy.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Managing the finance emails and directing queries to the appropriate member of the team or to other departments
- Managing workflow for purchasing across the school – tallying purchase orders to invoices and obtaining approval of expenditure for payment
- Posting and Reconciling cash takings for the box office and bar for Arlington Arts
- Raising invoices for Mary Hare Services including Swim pool and other ad hoc lettings
- Reviewing Mary Hare Services Sales and Purchase ledgers
- Assisting with Mary Hare Services quarterly management accounts
- Supporting Mary Hare Services Year end Audit
- Ongoing finance support to the Arlington Arts team
- Reconciling credit cards on a monthly basis and posting the journal.
- Reconciling and processing supplier accounts and invoices, reviewing purchase ledger for Mary Hare School
- Checking and reviewing budget spends for the educational teams
- Supporting work within the team related to the implementation of a new finance system
- Other ad hoc work or analysis as directed
Person Specification
Education Attainment
- A Level or equivalent
- Professional Qualifications
- AAT or book-keeping qualifications – desirable but not essential
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
Desirable
- Competent IT skills especially excel
- Previous accounting or admin experience
- Good communication skills – verbal and written
- Ability to work as part of a team and take directions accurately
- Confident and Personable
- Good numeracy skills
- Experience of working in a school environment
- Previous use of accounting systems
Skills and Personal Qualities
- Good attention to detail
- Analytical thinker and problem solver
- Organised and methodical
- Positive / “Can do” attitude to problems
- Able to multi-task and prioritise effectively
Essential Values, Behaviours and Attitudes
All employees are expected to actively promote and demonstrate the six core values of the School:
- Learners First
- Community is Key
- Integrity & Respect
- Empower & Energise Others
- Being Accountable
- Excellence
Benefits:
As well as an inclusive and supportive work environment, and a stunning location benefits also include:
Generous defined contribution pensions scheme, subsidised canteen, free on-site parking, 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for employee's and household members and much more…
Please note that Mary Hare adheres to Safer Recruitment Standards and as such all applications must be made via the Mary Hare website and using the Mary Hare Application Form.
Applications will only be considered via a completed Application Form; CV’s cannot be accepted.
Mary Hare | Arlington Manor | Snelsmore Common | Newbury | Berkshire | RG14 3BQ
This School is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a criminal records self-disclosure form and successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks. We are committed to securing genuine equality of opportunity in all aspects of our activities as an employer and education provider. The role you are applying for is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Attached documents
About Mary Hare School
- Mary Hare School
- Arlington Manor, Snelsmore Common, Newbury
- Berkshire
- RG14 3BQ
- United Kingdom
Our vision
That all deaf children should receive the education and support which will enable them to achieve their full potential at home, school and in their subsequent careers
Objectives
- Achieve the highest possible standards of educating deaf children, from early learning to tertiary education
- Be a major influence of national policy, practice and guidance in relation to deaf children and their education
- Enable families to achieve their vision and aspirations for their deaf child
- Support deaf children and young people in their emotional and social well-being
- Be recognised as a key provider of the highest quality training for all practitioners working with deaf children and young people
- Provide consultancy, advisory support, assessment and technical services that support the vision
Our history
Towards the end of the 19th Century, a number of prominent women were beginning to influence events in ways which were to have a profound effect on developments in 20th Century society. One such woman was the educationalist Miss Mary Hare. Her vision was that deaf children were capable of realising the full potential of their intellect and that they had no need of shelter from the rigours of hearing society in the growing number of asylums for the deaf and dumb. Such shelter served only to deny them opportunities and fundamental rights. She set about overturning the short-sighted view that the deaf child's prime needs were for care and protection, by establishing a small school in London in 1883. By 1916 this centre of learning had blossomed into the Dene Hollow Oral School for the Deaf based in Sussex and widely regarded as one of the best schools for deaf children in the Kingdom. During these twenty or so years of growth and development, Mary Hare had been able to show that her vision was not only justified and realistic, but achievable.
It was to honour the great contribution that this pioneer had made to the education of deaf children, that shortly after her death in 1945, Dene Hollow School was redesignated as the National Grammar School for the Deaf. Bearing her name, The Mary Hare Grammar School came to serve the needs of potentially able severely and profoundly deaf children throughout the United Kingdom. The rapid growth that this change brought necessitated a move to larger premises, and in 1948 the school acquired and occupied its present beautiful site close to Newbury in Berkshire. It is our hope that half a century after Mary Hare's death, the achievements of our pupils today still serve to honour her name and her vision.
Local information and facilities
Newbury is a market town located in West Berkshire in England in the UK with good bus, rail and road links and is located 50 miles south west of London. There are a wide selection of hotels in Newbury offering good hotel accommodation and bed and breakfast accommodation for visitors in and around Newbury. The Kennet and Avon Canal disects the town which has many historical buildings and places of interest including the Corn Exchange Theatre and the Museum by the Canal. The Newbury Racecourse is within 1 mile of the town centre and nearby are Highclere Castle, Donnington Castle, Snelsmore Countryside Park, the Ridgeway, the Downs and a host of other attractions.
School Information
Mary Hare School is the largest school for profoundly and severely deaf children in the UK. Mary Hare teaches using an auditory oral approach, so that children learn though spoken and written English – no sign language is used in teaching. The school has maintained a high standard, with over 85% of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSEs for the last 5 years and 95 % pass rate at A level. Nearly all leavers go on to further education.
The school is part of a large national charity and benefits from the additional activities of the Mary Hare Charity. An active fundraising department and various trading activities generate funds to support the development of the school. The Training Division provides opportunities for teachers to attend national and international conferences organised on site. The Training Division also offers post-graduate courses including the mandatory qualification for Teachers of the Deaf and the MSc in Educational Audiology and MA in Special Education (Hearing Impairment).
Mary Hare also has an Arts Centre on site, which houses the school’s music and performing arts department, but also offers a programme of arts events including music, theatre dance and comedy.
For further information please visit our website: www.maryhare.org.uk
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