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Two Rivers High
Two Rivers High School
Finance Assistant (Fixed-Term)
16hrs/week: Monday-Friday (days & hours negotiable, term-time only/45.05 weeks)
Salary: £25,183 - £26,409 (FTE 37 hours/whole year), actual salary £9,408 (16 hours/45.05 weeks term-time)
Two Rivers High School
Working as part of a wider Finance Team within Endeavour Multi Academy Trust, Two Rivers High School meets the needs of 270 pupils with special needs including ADHD, autism, speech, language and communication difficulties and social & emotional difficulties. Re-awarded in March 2024, Two Rivers High School is an Outstanding School for pupils with Special Educational Needs.
Responsibilities
This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to further enhance their career in finance.
Two Rivers High School are looking to appoint a proactive Finance Assistant on a fixed-term basis until Easter 2026, to provide an accurate and efficient finance administration service within our school. Responsibilities will include providing support to School Bursar with a variety of finance tasks, including:
- Responsibility for managing schools finance email account.
- Ordering, processing and payment of all goods and services, ensuring finance procedures are followed. Checking deliveries to ensure all goods are received, follow up any missing items and distribute orders received to the relevant member of staff.
- Processing of invoices and credit notes, dealing with any queries as they arise and settling statements to ensure individual accounts are up-to-date.
- Weekly tracking of dinner debts (pupil and staff), liaising with parties by phone and email, sending debt letters where required in accordance with Endeavour MAT Debt Policy.
- Update the pupil premium tracker as required.
- Processing petty cash and staff expense claims as they arise.
- Processing of monthly credit card expenditure.
- Maintenance of assets register.
- Monitoring and update of the subscriptions tracker to indicate when paid and proactively ensure that subscriptions do not lapse.
- Administration of school lettings and other uses of school premises, responding promptly to enquiries, updating the lettings calendar, ensuring all appropriate lettings documentation is shared and complete information received, raising invoices in accordance with schools letting charges and debt management.
- Monitor all school trips and ensure appropriate financial documentation is completed and submitted, updating the trips tracker on an ongoing basis.
- Provide routine clerical/administrative support to schools Bursar, maintaining manual and computerised records systems.
- Provide general finance procedures guidance to staff, parents and other stakeholders.
- Collection of fees and other dues as required.
Key Requirements:
NVQ3 or equivalent business and administration qualification and / or work-based experience in a relevant discipline. GCSE Maths and English to minimum Grade 4 or equivalent.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has excellent organisational, planning and prioritising skills, who can manage work volumes
- Requires minimum supervision and is methodical with a high attention to detail
- Is able to work constructively as part of a team
- Accurate keyboard skills
- Has some knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice/legislation
- Has the ability to relate well to children and adults.
We can offer:
- A warm, stimulating and supportive environment
- Continuing Professional Development
- A focus on staff well-being with staff social events along with a well-being counsellor
- A highly professional team who would welcome you on board
- A large and expanding school with high standards and an ambitious desire to better the lives of our pupils and impact further on our wider community.
Interested in joining us?
Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our team. We look forward to meeting interested candidates and strongly encourage you to visit the school. To arrange a visit, please telephone the school Office on 01827 426124.
Closing Date for application: 29th August 2025
Interviews will take place week commencing: w/c 8th September 2025