Accounts Manager - Full-time

The Village Academy Trust

• Ref:KCC-F49-7-S
• Posted:09/06/2020
• Pay:KR8 £25238-£28781
• Start Date:TBC
• App Close Date:30/06/2020 at 12:00
• Interviews:Friday 10th July 2020

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This post provides an exceptional opportunity for the Accounts Manager to play a vital role in the Trust’s new business support team. The business support team is led by Potential in Everyone Academy Trust via a service level agreement. The successful candidate will either already hold a relevant Business Management qualification and/or have substantial operational financial experience in schools finance.

You will be committed to helping pupils to reach their full potential and believe effective financial management enables strategic leaders to deliver the best possible education to children.

You will have demonstrable experience in financial control, having had significant responsibility for month end financial processes, budget monitoring and management reports.  Your experience may include working in an academy trust, or collaboration, or using your knowledge and experience to provide advice and guidance to other schools. You will also have proven experience of completing and submitting accurate returns to external agencies. You will have a flexible and proactive approach, having used financial systems such as PS Financials or SIMS Finance and budget planning tools such as BPS (Orovia).

Experience of communicating financial information in a manner non-financial people understand is essential.

You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and experience of planning, prioritising and managing workloads in an environment of conflicting demands. You will have the ability to negotiate, build and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders. For this busy and dynamic post, you will be highly organised and possess excellent IT and administrative skills, able to produce a range of complex documents and reports using Microsoft Office.

This is a full-time position (37 hours per week all year round). Annual leave can only be taken during school holidays.

The salary for this post will be paid on Kent Range 8 FTE £25238-£28781 (pro rata)

Your completed application form must demonstrate how your experience meets the person specification for the post. CVs will not be accepted unless accompanied by a fully completed application form

For further information, please contact Ellie Bartlett finance@villageacademy.co.uk.

The Trust and its staff are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children, putting children at the centre of everything we do. All posts are offered subject to the satisfactory outcome of safeguarding checks including an enhanced DBS check. References will be requested prior to interview.

To ensure the safety of all, and following the government guidelines, during this challenging time, interviews may take place via video link, this link may also be used to verify identification documents for DBS purposes

Closing Date: Midday on Tuesday 30 June 2020

Interviews will be held on Friday 10 July 2020

Information about the trust

The Village Academy Trust is a multi-academy trust comprising of 6 primary Schools across East Kent (Lydd Primary School, Dymchurch Primary School, Petham Primary School, Selling CE Primary School, Lynsted and Norton Primary School, and Milstead and Frinsted CE Primary School).

Job Contact Information

• Name:Ellie Bartlett
• Address:Lynsted & Norton Primary School,
  Lynsted,
  Sittingbourne,
  Kent,
  ME9 0RL
• Telephone: 01227 700 260
• Email: hr@villageacademy.co.uk

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• Accounts Manager - Job Description