Finance Officer

About The Role

Luminate Education Group is looking for a Finance Officer to join our team based at our Park Lane Campus. You will deliver a responsive, customer-focused, and high-quality administrative service, ensuring accounts receivable transactions are processed accurately, efficiently, and within agreed timescales. As part of the Finance Team, you will contribute to a shared service supporting colleagues across the Group. You will be responsible for working in line with financial regulations and procedures at all times, maintaining a proactive approach to compliance and fraud awareness.

• Process payments, income, and service requests accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Maintain up-to-date financial records in line with Group financial regulations and controls.
• Provide clear advice and guidance to staff to support compliance with financial procedures.
• Respond to finance-related queries, delivering a high standard of customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the wider finance team with reporting, data analysis, and other duties as required, ensuring confidentiality and data security at all times.

• Previous experience of working with Agresso Business World (web version) or similar Finance data systems.
• Used to working with sensitive data and the guidelines that support it.
• Analytical with the ability to present and analyse data.
• Work accurately, with attention to detail.
• A strong communicator – both written and verbal.
• Used to organiser your own time and also working to set deadlines.
• Flexible with the ability to juggle tasks to meet changing priorities.

• Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
• Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

• Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• People’s Pension Scheme

Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.

Qualifications Including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership And Management Courses.

Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training. We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow. Luminate Education Group consists of Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds.

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity. Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please  to learn more about our EDI objectives.

We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.