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Finance Assistant

Job details

Start date: 2nd June 2025 or sooner

Three Counties Academy Trust (TCAT) includes the Queen Elizabeth High School, St Peter's Primary School, Bredenbury Primary School and Stoke Prior Primary School.

TCAT are looking to appoint an organised and proactive Finance Assistant with excellent bookkeeping skills to work in our friendly Trust offices. School experience is not necessary but a good working knowledge of accounts processes is essential. The ideal candidate will have a good eye for detail, be organised, pro-active and able to problem solve. You will be a good communicator who can work independently, as well as part of a wider team and will be responsible for the daily processing of all financial transactions for the Trust. You will also support school budget holders, other colleagues and stakeholders with requests, training and queries regarding purchases, payments, trips and other activities. 

The successful candidate(s) will have: 

• Good general communication skills
• Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to respond to correspondence, whether by email, fax or letter. This may involve drafting letters to later sign, or responding independently within certain perimeters
• Ability to administer and process orders and invoices
• Ability to raise invoices
• Ability to investigate anomalies/overspends and underspends and advise fund holders of balances
• Ability to correspond with suppliers regarding enquiries, invoices, etc. 
• Ability to maintain petty cash records and use to make local payments and keep records of expenditure
• Ability to maintain accurate records of income

What we offer:

Three Counties Academy Trust (TCAT) recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success. To demonstrate this, all staff are offered the following benefits:-

• Collaborative working to support our endeavours to work smarter and achieve an effective balance between home and work
• A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues
• Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
• Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to Spectrum Life

Three Counties Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check and further pre-employment checks will be conducted in accordance with KCSIE. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. 

For more information contact

Application forms and full details are available here:- Careers at Three Counties Academy Trust - Bromyard, United Kingdom, Hereford | Eteach

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted to arrange an interview.

Hoople Ltd is working on behalf of our Client as a Recruitment Agency.