Finance Assistant

*Based at Irlam and Cadishead Academy*

Finance Assistant

Salary: £21,861 - £25,860 per annum

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm (37.5 hours per week)

Contract: Permanent, all year round

Welcome to Irlam & Cadishead Academy, a school of Standard and Character for Years 7 to 11. Through setting high standards of academic achievement and delivering an education with character, we strive to bring out ‘the best in everyone’. Our approach is underpinned by our six core values:

- Ambition – to achieve the best for ourselves and others; - Confidence – to have the courage of our convictions and to take risks in the right cause; - Creativity – to imagine possibilities and make them real; - Respect – for ourselves and others in all that we do; - Enthusiasm – to seek opportunity, find what is good and pursue talents and interests; - Determination – to overcome obstacles and reach success.

The role

We are seeking to recruit an experienced and diligent Finance Assistant to manage the purchase and sales ledgers, reconcile the bank statement on a monthly basis as well as other end of month actions. Working with budget holders to ensure departmental budgets are achieved and orders are placed in a timely fashion.

The role forms part of the Salford Cluster finance team where support and guidance is offered from the Cluster Finance Manager and the Executive Business Manager. As part of the Irlam and Cadishead Business Support Team, you will work closely with the Principal, Admin Team and HR Officer on a daily basis.

About You

Candidates must have excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, be self-motivated and a team player. This role will require some stand alone working where you may be the only finance member of staff on site some days, therefore a self-starter who requires minimal daily management is a must for this role.

For full details of the role and responsibilities, please see the associated job description and person specification. 

To apply, please complete the online application form by clicking ‘apply’ on the vacancies page of our website or via this link

https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2722829?cid=1567

 Please note that we do not accept CVs.

Closing date: Midday on Friday 15th July 2022

Interviews: Week commencing Monday 25th July 2022

United Learning

Irlam & Cadishead Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.