- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003225
- Job Title
- Finance Officer
- Job Start Date
- 21 April 2025
- Salary Range
- £26,409 to £32,654
- Hours Per Week
- 36.5
- Working Pattern
- All year round
- School Address
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Summit Learning Trust
Ninestiles Comprehensive School
Hartfield Crescent
Birmingham
B27 7QL
Telephone number: 0121 624 9010 - Contact Email
- recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 18 March 2025, midday
- Job Information
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Location: Cockshut Hill School Central Finance Department
Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement
Success through Endeavour
Ambition through Challenge
Strength through Diversity
Summit Learning Trust are looking to appoint a reliable hardworking and organised finance officer to join the centralised finance team.
You will offer us experience of working within a finance role, have excellent IT, organisational and inter-personal skills and ideally have relevant experience in a education environment. You will also hold a level 4 or higher in maths and english at GCSE or equivalent and be able to demonstrate that you are able to work flexibly and have excellent communication skills. It is also essential that you have the ability to remain calm and professional under pressure, to prioritise your work and multi-task.
In return we will offer you an opportunity to develop this important role within a vibrant and innovative trust which is seeking to improve educational standards for all the pupils and students represented by the Trust.
This role will be based at Cockshut Hill School but will involve travel on occasion to other Trust sites.
About the Trust
Why work for us?
We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth. These include access to:- employee assistance programme
- high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression
- wellbeing advocates
- lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme
- health protection scheme alongside flu jab and eyecare vouchers
- generous employer pension schemes
- excellent holiday entitlement
For an application pack and further information about all our vacancies please visit the trust website.
Previous applicants need not apply.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held shortly afterwards.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all applicants to share this commitment. - This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
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How to Apply
- Safeguarding
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
- enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
- References
- All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
- Short-listed candidates
- An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
- Terms and Conditions
- This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
- Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
- Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.