Finance Assistant

3 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Avanti Schools Trust Full time

School- Avanti Schools Trust- Location- Leicester, Leicestershire- Contract Type- Permanent- Hours- Full Time, Part Time- Salary- Grade 4, £22,604 - £24,123 per annum- Posted- 28th April 2023- Start Date- As soon as possible- Expires- 14th May 2023 11:59 PM- Contract Type- Permanent- Start Date- As soon as possible- Job ID- 1330373- Start Date- As soon as possible- Contract Type :Permanent
- Job ID: 1330373

**This role is available as Full Time or Part Time**

**Grade 4, £22,604 - £24,123 per annum. Pro rata for Part Time.**

**About us and the role**

We have an opportunity for Finance Assistant to join our Centralised Finance Team supporting schools within 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 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.

You don’t need to have worked in a school environment before but a passion for helping improve the education of our students through providing high quality finance support is desirable.

**Why should you apply**

You will be working in a fantastic environment.

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.

**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 mínimal 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

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.


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