Office Administrator
Surbiton High School
Kingston upon Thames
- New
- Salary:
- £27,385 - £34,548 (FTE)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 11 November 2024
Job overview
Job Title: Office Administrator
Job Purpose: To support the Finance Team by providing efficient clerical assistance
Reporting Line: Head of Finance
Start Date: January 2025
Tenure: Permanent
We are ideally looking for someone to work full-time; Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm, 37.5 hours per week, full year-round.
The above working pattern is flexible and will be discussed at interview. For the right candidate, we could consider part-time days, compressed hours over 4 days per week, reduced hours over 5 days per week, reduced weeks, or another permutation that suits the needs of both you and the School.
Hybrid working from home will be available for up to 2 days per week once probation is passed.
Salary: £27,385 - £34,548 (FTE)
Do you have an eye for detail, a love of processes, data entry and spreadsheets, and a passion for organisation? If so, you may be the perfect fit for this role and we encourage you to apply!
This role is mainly about keeping the School's finance admin in check. You'll process purchase invoices, help with supplier payruns, and support with preparing monthly and annual financial returns. You’ll keep budget records up to date and assist with billing. Other tasks include reconciling credit card statements, posting month-end journals and handling petty cash. It’s a dynamic role with plenty of variety to keep things interesting!
You do not need any prior knowledge about finance to excel in this position, but you do need to be fairly good with numbers and a stickler for accuracy. You’ll also need to be logical, methodical and efficient to carry out this role well.
As an aside, if you do wish to develop your finance knowledge as part of your own CPD, the School will fully support you in embarking on an AAT Level 2 Accounts or Finance Assistant apprenticeship once you are established in the role.
For a detailed outline of the role, please see the full Job Description and Person Specification.
Closing date for Applications: Midnight, Monday 11 November 2024
Interviews to be held week commencing: 18 November 2024
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
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Surbiton High School is culturally diverse and fully committed to celebrating and respecting inclusion and diversity throughout our community.
Surbiton High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, the Disclosure and Barring Service and online/social media searches.
Please note that the School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.
For any queries relating to the role or your application, please email recruitment@surbitonhigh.com
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About Surbiton High School
- Surbiton High School
- 13-15 Surbiton Crescent, Kingston upon Thames
- Surrey
- KT1 2JT
- United Kingdom
Surbiton High School aims to inspire, encourage and empower its staff and pupils to be the very best they can be.
We are a school where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, where we look beyond the A* to offer a breadth of opportunity which allows every pupil to flourish and every staff member to develop and succeed.
Surbiton High School is a school “brimming with energy and joie de vivre.” (ISI Inspection Report). We pride ourselves on being an extraordinary community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. We feed our pupils’ minds, but we also care passionately about their character development and happiness. Our approach to education means that Surbiton High School pupils achieve the very best exam results and are also compassionate, authentic young people with strong values, keen to make a positive difference in the world.
Our inspirational staff are dedicated to delivering a rich curriculum and programme of co-curricular activities which challenge our pupils to explore ideas for themselves. Whether engaged in learning in the classroom, or through musical, artistic, sporting, enterprise or charitable activities, our pupils are constantly encouraged to connect with the wider world and embrace new experiences to build their confidence. All staff are expected and encouraged to play a full part in the academic, co-curricular and pastoral life of the School.
At Surbiton High School, we aim to bring out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and this resonates in the investment that we make in our colleagues. We recognise the importance of continuous learning and training and the School has a senior member of staff dedicated to supporting continuing professional development. We have a comprehensive whole School and individual INSET programme in place, including support for School Direct trainees as well as Newly Qualified Teachers (in our role as a regional NQT induction centre).
We actively encourage our staff to continue to develop their own expertise in the classroom and support their professional development through coaching and mentoring alongside professional qualifications such as: NPQML, NPQSL and MA courses in educational leadership. The School has a clearly developed leadership structure, offering extensive opportunities for career development and progression, including Heads of Department (Including Deputies) and Heads of Year (including Deputies) as well as Co-ordinators with specific responsibilities such as: Gifted and Talented, Oxbridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Expeditions.
Surbiton High School has approximately 1600 pupils aged between 4 and 18. Our Preparatory Schools are divided into the Girls’ Preparatory School and Boys’ Preparatory School, and the Senior School is girls only from age 11 upwards.
We are looking for applicants who are passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils and working with us to become the number one school of choice in South West London.
Acting Principal
Hannah Horwood
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