Vacancies
Administrative/Finance Assistant
Part Time: 20 Hours Per Week
Working Pattern: Term time only; Monday to Friday 12:30 – 16:30
Marsh Hill Primary School
Marsh Hill
Birmingham
B23 7HY
Telephone Number: 0121 464 2920
Email Address: enquiry@marshill.bham.sch.uk
Job Salary Details:
Grade 2: annual full time equivalent salary £24,027
Pro rata annual salary (0.55 fte.) £13,214.85
Contract Type: permanent
Start Date: January 2025
Marsh Hill Primary School is committed to enriching the lives and transforming the futures of our children. The Governors of Marsh Hill are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, experienced and committed individual to the position of Administrative/Finance Assistant. This is an opportunity to join a friendly, hardworking and dedicated team of staff.
The successful candidate will:
- be a confident and experienced school administrator
- be able to welcome and communicate effectively with visitors, staff, pupils and other external agencies in a professional and courteous manner
- be responsible for dealing with all aspects of reception and administration duties
- have excellent administration skills and the ability to prioritise workload and tasks
- be able to work effectively as part of a busy team and use own initiative
- have a good customer service ethic and be flexible in their approach to work
- have a keen interest in education finance processes
- raise purchase orders from requisitions, accurately and in accordance with agreed authorisation and timescales in accordance with procedures
- administer schools’ unofficial funds account, collating, counting (if necessary banking of cash) and maintenance of appropriate financial records
The ideal candidate will have the following desirable knowledge and experience:
- knowledge of school’s financial procedures, training will be provided
- purchase ledger experience – orders, invoices and delivery processes
- previously worked in finance education environment
If you wish to apply for the position, please complete an application form and email this to enquiry@marshill.bham.sch.uk by Friday 15th November at 12pm.
Interviews will take place week commencing Monday 25th November 2024
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.
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.
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. 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.
