About the role
Job purpose:
• To manage, monitor and administer the school’s budget on behalf of the head teacher and governors and to be able to present the current status of the financial situation concisely
• To provide efficient financial and business support to the school’s senior managers. Including administrative and organisational support to the Head teacher.
Principal accountabilities:
1. Finance Role:
• Manage to day to day finances of the school, including procurement, raise purchase orders, process invoices and credit notes and manage the finances via the school’s accounting software (currently Bromcom)
• Generate reports for managers and Governors on the school’s financial position.
• Contribute to the schools financial planning
• Produce and monitor annual and monthly financial returns, present to the headteacher and Governing Body.
• Liaise with the Schools Financial Advisor (SFA).
• Attend Finance, Personnel and Premises meetings and advise on the financial situation as required.
• Undertake Budget preparation in conjunction with senior managers and the SFA.
• Undertake administration of Payroll after it has been generated by the schools payroll provider along with recording payroll variances.
• Liaise with the school’s payroll provider.
• Undertake monthly payroll reconciliation within the schools budget monitoring software.
• Liaise with other staff to ensure that new suppliers/contractors are explored to improve principles of Best Value.
• To obtain quotes as needed in accordance with Best Value principles.
• Help to identify other sources of funding.
2. Other responsibilities:
• Respond to standard requests for information
• Take responsibility for document and data management and for reviewing existing systems
• Respond to correspondence and emails on behalf of the school.
• To share responsibility in answering the phone and dealing with visitors when in the main building.
• To understand and comply with data protection requirements and guidelines on confidentiality, child protection, health and safety and security, reporting any concerns to the appropriate senior manager.
• Ensure all communications are delivered to the standard required by the school and the local authority.
Visits to school are most welcome. Please telephone our Office Manager, Anita Armitage on 01223 712447 for an appointment or email office@foxton.cambs.sch.uk. The application pack can be downloaded from our school website at:
Foxton Primary School - Current Vacancies
Closing date for applications is: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Interviews will take place on: Thursday 16th / Friday 17th May 2024
What will you be doing?
Foxton is a small rural school in a friendly close community with a supportive team of staff and governors.
We are looking for a friendly, flexible team player who has great IT skills and is highly organised.
About you
The successful candidate must:
- Have finance experience (preferably in education, but training will be given)
- Have a welcoming manner, be friendly and approachable
- Have respect for confidentiality
- Have good ICT and numerical skills
- Have excellent communication and organisational skills
- Be flexible with the ability to work under pressure and manage time effectively.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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