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Location

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Overview
The Aylesbury Vale Academy are seeking to appoint a friendly and highly organised individual to join our Finance Department. The hours are 12 to 15 per week, ideally 1000 to 1400, 3 days per week, but we can be flexible on the working pattern.

Term time only

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 3 Point 16 (24,310) to Point 20 (£26,295) Full-time Equivalent

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 12 to 15 hours per week (Ideally 1000 to 1400, 3 days per week, but can be flexible on working pattern)

Closing date: 11/03/2024 12:00

Interviews to be held: To be confirmed

About us
The Aylesbury Vale Academy is an 'Good' school with a strong sense of purpose and achievement based upon respect, aspiration and resilience. The Academy provides a safe and stimulating learning environment for children from 2 to 18 years old. At the Academy, we aim to provide an inclusive, engaging and challenging experience leading to an education of the highest quality.

About the role
This is an exciting time at the Aylesbury Vale Academy, an all-through Academy taking students from Nursery right up to 6th Form. The Academy is now set on a course of significant growth in an area of the country which is itself seeing a period of significant development.

The Finance Department plays a key role in supporting the Academy at this critical stage of development and the deployment of its strategic plan.

Reporting to the Business Manager, the responsibilities of the Finance Assistant will encompass:-

- Purchase and Sales Ledger processing
- Maintaining the ParentPay payment system
- Ordering from and dealing with suppliers
- Supporting internal customers

About you
Ideally, the candidate will have experience of working in a school finance environment, have good organisational skills, the ability to work under pressure and be a good team player. They must be methodical in their approach as well as proactive, adaptable and flexible in meeting the Academy needs.

Candidates must have:-

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Financial experience or qualification ie NVQ Level 2
- Experience of purchase ledge management/control
- ICT literate and able to use Microsoft Office software
- Good understanding of financial controls including schemes of financial delegations

Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.

Tel No: 01296 428551
Email: [email protected]

We have the right to withdraw this advert before the closing date if we have received a large response.

Only fully completed application forms will be considered. CVs will not be accepted unless they accompany an application form.

Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and an online social media check. We also carry out Enhance DBS checks every five years.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.

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Disability Confident

About Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .

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