Finance Assistant

About us and the role

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Finance Assistant, to support our schools across the trust.

You will be highly motivated and efficient individual who can work on their own but be part of the wider centralised Finance Function. You will be dealing with a wide variety of people at all levels, so you must be an effective communicator, with strong interpersonal skills. The ability to prioritise a busy workload is essential, as is the need to meet deadlines of varying timescales. You will be prepared to work flexibly, independently, sometimes under pressure, and always with a ‘can and will do’ attitude.

You will support the Finance Team with a variety of tasks that support, invoicing, ordering, processing BACS payments and monitoring spend.

You will need to demonstrate that you have a good working knowledge and level of competence in using Excel and Word coupled with great attention to detail and high standards of accuracy.

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• A strong vision of Educational Excellence, Character Formation and Spiritual Insight
• Great opportunities for professional development
• NEST pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
• O2 discounts
• NUS Card
• Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Access to multiple well-being programmes
• Cycle to work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
• Free school meals

Plus many more

What will you do?

• Processing of Purchase Orders from requisitions, accurately and in accordance with agreed authorisation and timescales
• Investigating and resolving supplier invoices under query arranging returns and ensuring that refunds or credit notes are received.
• To provide financial information reports from the finance system for finance managers and give advice as requested.
• Organise and maintain Contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLA) file updating information.

For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description

What are we looking for?

• Experience working in a Finance/busy Administration department
• High standard of accuracy/presentation with a good eye for detail
• Decisive and shows resilience whilst working under pressure
• The ability to work with initiative and multi-task during frequent interruption
• Organised with the ability to meet tight deadlines and work under minimal supervision
• Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.