Cluster Finance Officer

The role:

The South East London Cluster consisting of Bacon’s College, Sedgehill Academy and The John Roan School.  The post offers an exciting challenge for someone with excellent organisational skills and an eye for detail, who is flexible, adaptable and able to work on their own initiative but also as part of a team. You will need to take responsibility to ensure that finances are managed with the highest degree of honesty, transparency and accuracy.

The Finance Officer works within the Finance Department and reports to the Cluster Finance Specialist.  This department is responsible for all aspects of school finance across the South East London Cluster.  You will need to lead by example and promote the importance of adherence to financial procedures and regulations whilst still building and maintaining positive and effective working relationships with all staff, suppliers and other stakeholders.

Working as part of the finance team you will be involved in all aspects of financial processing and control including but not limited to; purchase requisitions, sales and purchase invoices, cash handling, bank reconciliation, petty cash and expenses processes.

The successful candidate will:

- Be proficient in the use of Microsoft packages i.e., Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.

- Have experience of financial software packages and systems.

- High level of personal and professional integrity

- High degree of self confidence

- Excellent organisational skills

- Excellent communication skills in both written and verbal form

- Confident use of ICT

If you feel you are able to proactively work with the academies and the Cluster Finance Specialist to ensure compliance with audit requirements and financial regulation, we welcome your application.

We encourage early application, as the school reserve the right to make an appointment at any stage during the recruitment process.