Finance Officer - Impact Education

Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of Impact Education

Are you an ambitious individual seeking a finance role offering you great career development and supporting our family of schools?  If so, we have a great opportunity for you!

In this role you be key in helping to deliver an outstanding finance service to three of our schools in Kirklees. You will be part of a small team providing financial transaction processing support, as well as responding efficiently to queries from school leaders and managers. This is an extremely varied (and busy!) role spanning many aspects of the finance function, including order and invoice processing, sales invoicing and credit control, cash banking and reconciliations.  We would also love you to be able to support answering budget queries once you have become more familiar with the role. 

We’re keen to speak to individuals with exceptional attention to detail, a can-do attitude and a willingness to learn. Ideally, you will be in a finance administrator role currently and looking to further your development and career. However, we are also keen to hear from administrators who do not have the finance experience but have the desire and right skill set to become a finance professional. At Impact Education we are proud of our professional learning offer, and we would be happy to support the right candidate in gaining finance qualifications through the fantastic apprenticeship routes available.

Due to the majority of our employees being school/office based, we are ideally seeking someone who enjoys being in the office every day. Once our new team member has got to grips with the environment, systems etc., there is scope to move to a proportion of time working from home.

If you would like to find out more about the role and what it is like to work in the Finance Team at Impact, please email kbradwell@i-mat.org.uk and Kathryn, our Trust Accountant can arrange to call you for an informal chat.

Job Description

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Benefits

All colleagues receive a planned induction to ensure the best start possible. We are also very proud of the professional learning opportunities across our Trust which are part of our Canopy offering. Canopy means professional learning for everybody across Impact trust – whatever your school, whatever your role and whatever your interest. A place which inspires us all to grow and develop and pushes us all to be our professional best. These opportunities vary from ITT Training, NPQ’s, HLTA, SEND TA , Wellbeing Champion Apprenticeships and many more. Early Career teachers are supported through a range of networks and have access to fully trained mentors and coaching opportunities.

Colleague Voice and wellbeing is really important to us. Colleagues new to the Trust will be automatically enrolled into our employee benefits platform ‘Smart Hive’, which provides access to a range of benefits outlined below. We also complete an annual Trust listening survey and our Colleague Ambassadors support the development of action plans to help us work towards our goal of being a Great Place to Work.

•Car Benefit Scheme•Cycle to Work Scheme•Employee Assistant Programme (Including LifeWorks health & wellbeing portal & App)•Face-to-face or telephone counselling (also available for immediate family members)•Online Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) (also available for immediate family members)•Gym and mobile phone discounts•Retail Discounts Scheme

Desired Criteria

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Essential Criteria

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Interview Date: Provisionally 9th July 2024