Finance Assistant - Full-time

St Edmund's School Canterbury, Canterbury

• Ref:KCC886-6050-124S
• Posted:05/05/2026
• Pay:Pay Range £28,398 - £32,572
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:18/05/2026 at 09:00
• Interviews:TBC

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St Edmund’s School Canterbury is seeking to employ a diligent and skilled Part-Time Finance Assistant to join our Accounts team. The Finance Assistant will play a crucial role in managing the school’s finances, ensuring accurate and timely processing of transactions and contributing to the smooth running of the finance department.

The purpose of the role is to provide high quality purchase ledger, fees ledger administration and operational management combined with procurement order management.

The position is permanent. The usual hours of work for the post are 8:30am to to 4:30pm, 5 days a week (37.5 hours net of 30-minute lunch per day).

Key Responsibilities

• Accurate and timely data entry of supplier invoices
• Complete Monthly Reconciliations of supplier statements
• Ensuring supplier invoices are settled in accordance with due dates via BACS payment runs, international transfers and bank transfers where applicable
• Processing purchase orders and training new budget holders to raise purchase orders
• Ensuring the school is utilising the most cost effective suppliers and identify and implement cost saving solutions
• Produce termly fee invoices and issue them to families
• Processing of bank receipts and reconciliation of bank accounts
• Monitor and pursue unpaid school fees directly with families in an appropriate and timely manner

Specifically, duties and processes include:

• Entering invoice data onto accounts purchase ledger software
• Manage receipt of goods onsite matching delivery notes to goods received and original orders
• Liaise with stakeholders across the school to process orders and seek approval of invoices
• Reconciliations of pupils attending the school and raising termly invoices
• Processing charges onto termly fee invoices
• Ensuring the correct level of remission are applied to fee termly invoices where applicable

Information about the school

St Edmund's School is a co-educational day and boarding school with c. 570 pupils from the ages of 2 to 18. The school is officially designated “a school of religious character”.

The Pre-Prep, Junior, and Senior Schools are on the same site and are closely integrated, using the same Chapel, music and art facilities, dining hall, science laboratories and sports hall. The school prides itself on its friendly, family environment where every pupil and staff member is known and valued.

Although the majority of children are day pupils, one quarter of the school’s pupils are boarders, from a wide range of backgrounds. The school operates a five-day teaching week, but also runs a Saturday morning activities programme which is optional for Senior School day pupils. All boarders participate in both Saturday and Sunday activities programmes.

The school adjoins the University of Kent and is able to make use of many of the University's facilities: the Templeman Library, the Gulbenkian theatre and the public lectures amongst others. London’s West End is within easy reach.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Sarah Hudson
• Address:St Thomas' Hill, Canterbury , Kent , CT2 8HU
• Telephone: 01227 475633
• Email: slh@stedmunds.org.uk