Finance Assistant - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Greenshaw Learning Trust

Greenshaw Learning Trust

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Gloucester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Us:

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a successful multi academy trust and currently comprises thirty schools: seven in South London, five in Berkshire, one in Surrey, 14 in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, and three in Plymouth.

We are continuing to grow and have further schools joining us regularly.

The Role:

We are seeking to fill a full time OR part time finance assistant position, due to the extension of the schools joining the Trust, based in one of the three shared service offices within Greenshaw Learning Trust.

The Finance Assistant will be working within a team of finance professionals and the team will be responsible for producing accurate and timely financial statements for a number of schools.

Each team is the responsibility of a Finance Manager and will support the manager to deliver the effective operation of the finance function within the Shared Services Team and our schools, ensuring compliance with legal and financial regulations and the Trust's financial policies and procedures.

To support the work of our Head of Finance, to ensure the effective operation of the finance function within the Shared Services Team and our schools, ensuring compliance with legal and financial regulations and the Trust's financial policies and procedures.

Responsibility for the accurate and timely processing of all financial transactions for schools within the Greenshaw Learning Trust on the Trusts financial systems to include:

Process all orders
Process all goods received notes
Post all invoices ensuring compliance with Value for Money and following Trust procurement policy including budget monitoring
Ensure credit card transactions are authorised and posted on PSF
Post entries and confirm reconciliation of Petty Cash
Post entries for trips
Post staff expenses
Ensure timely payment of Bursaries
Raising of sales invoices
Accurate coding and recording of VAT
Ensuring compliance with legal and financial regulations and the Trust's financial policies and procedures
Other task as may be required from time to time

The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not restrictive and the post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that may be required from time to time.

Any such duties should not however substantially change the general character of the post.

Person Specification

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