Junior Finance Assistant - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Shaw Education Trust

Shaw Education Trust

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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking to appoint an Apprentice Finance Assistant within our busy finance team.

The role will provide the opportunity for someone who has a genuine interest in finance and looking to start their career in a role that will be varied, and you will be provided 'on-the-job' training to support your AAT apprenticeship studies.

While a head for numbers is essential the role is also about delivering a service by having exceptional interpersonal skills, Educated to A level or equivalent (Entry to AAT Level 2 or 3) and have good problem-solving abilities in order that you can respond to queries that may arise within the department.

Duties will include, but are not limited to;

Support the Trusts daytoday financial administration including filing, scanning and photocopying.
Undertake transactional finance processing such as the creation of purchase orders, receiving goods and services, and entering invoices and expenses claims under the direction of the Accounts Manager.
Continue to develop your own skills by attending training courses as deemed necessary.
To undertake such other duties and tasks as may lie within the scope of this post to ensure the effective delivery and development of the service.
To support the finance team with yearend and audit processes.

Salary:
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates apply

Working hours: 37 hours per week, full time, all year

SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities.

Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

Unlike other MATs, we don't enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow.

Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education.

Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)

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Support Staff only based on working
full time, all year

Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (
37 days holiday
rising to 39 days after 5 years' service including Bank Holidays)
Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
Cycle to work scheme
Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you
grow, contribute and
flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV's alone will not be accepted.

Application deadline: 12 noon on 15th September 2023

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