Finance Assistant (Part Time)

Are you looking for your next challenge? This is a great opportunity to join Nottingham High School as our new part-time Finance Assistant. This position will support our Finance Team and wider advisors to administer various financial and operations related tasks.

With great customer service skills and strong attention to detail, the ideal candidate will possess the organisational skills and the ability to manage various tasks and projects. In addition to this; a positive, flexible approach to work and duties, and the ability to deliver consistent quality and reliability through their methodical approach to work.

Nottingham High School is rich in tradition and has been educating children for more than 500 years. Most important, it is a community and the people who work here believe that they can make a difference to children at the school. If you would like to join a dynamic and inclusive environment, where we enable all of our staff to be the best that they can be, then we would love to hear from you.

The salary is £12,160 per annum plus competitive employee benefits.

The hours are 12:30pm - 4:30pm Tuesday, 08:30am - 4:30pm Thursday & Friday (19 hours per week)

Please note that to apply for this role you must complete our Application Form which is found at https://nottinghamhigh.co.uk/career/finance-assistant-3/

JOB DESCRIPTION

Primary Purpose

To administer various finance and operational-related tasks and to support the Finance Department.

Principal Objectives

• To maintain and reconcile the School bank accounts
• To organise and control regular streams of cash, cheque and card income for Sage cashbook posting and for regular banking
• To conduct monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• To control and reconcile various trip accounts and expenses
• To assist with all aspects of the sales ledger requires across the Infant, Junior and Senior Schools which will including the raising of sales invoices, posting of invoices and allocation of receipts and maintenance of credit control. All using Sage 200 software
• To assist with the control of petty cash income and expenses
• To assist with the ordering of goods, services and supplies
• To assist with the management and support for Wisepay income
• To assist with the preparation of audit requests
• To assist in administrative support for our Student Services department when required
• To undertake various other finance tasks found in a small finance office including staff cover for other areas of finance.
• To undertake other tasks reasonably requested by management including, where necessary, outside of the Finance Department.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications:

• Desirable: AAT or equivalent

Experience:

• Previous work using accounting software
• Microsoft Office Suite 2010
• Sage 200

Competencies & Personal Attributes:

• Organisational skills and the ability to manage various tasks and projects.
• Sound literacy skills and highly numerate
• Excellent customer service skills
• Good written and verbal communication
• Computer literate including use of online facilities
• Ability to work in a small office environment
• Discretion and confidentiality
• Excellent team working skills
• Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
• Self-motivation and ability to work on own initiative to meet deadlines
• Good attention to detail and an ability to deliver consistent quality and reliability through a methodical approach to work
• A positive, flexible approach to work and duties and a willingness to undertake occasional work outside normal hours

Nottingham High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and any appointment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure as well as any other pre-employment checks. In addition, Nottingham High School does not hold a sponsor licence and does not have current plans to obtain one. Applicants must be aware of their individual responsibility to provide the necessary documents to confirm the right to work in the UK as a part of our pre-employment checks.