Regional Finance Officer

Regional Finance Officer – Oasis Community Learning – North West Region

If numbers are your thing and you are a whizz with finance software and spreadsheets, then you definitely speak our language and we may well have an opportunity to interest you.

Oasis Community Learning is a business with a community purpose and vision to help every young person and community member to thrive and succeed, regardless of background or label. We are an Academy Trust operating in some the UKs most challenging areas and employ amazing teachers, brilliant support staff and a whole host of dedicated people in our central functions. One of which is Finance.

But we are slightly short on resource right now and need to hire a numerate professional to bolster our team.

The workload for a Finance function in a Trust of 56 schools and over 5000 employees is always high but add to that a number of projects designed to help us become more efficient and effective means we need some solid accounting horsepower in the region.

As a Finance Officer in a supportive team you will work primarily from our academy in Clarksfield, Oldham (with occasional days from home) dealing with transactional processing, purchase and sales ledgers and balance sheets. You’ll thrive in a world where orderliness and attention to detail is expected and where you derive great joy in things adding up just as they should.

In return we’ll give you flexibility, support and an opportunity to grow your skills, working alongside experienced finance professionals. You’ll know that your efforts will go towards the organisation’s mission to help the most disadvantaged to progress and to flourish. And that’s a good feeling at the end of anyone’s day.

Want to put your numerical, logical brain to good use – here’s what we are looking for:

• Experience with Transactional processing:
  Purchase ledger, Sales ledger, Receipts & Payments.
• Purchase ledger maintenance: BACS payments, reconciliations, debit balances, supplier account creation.
• Sales ledger maintenance:
  Invoice management, debt chasing.
• Bank Account maintenance:
  Reconciliation, filing, administration, payment runs.
• Finance systems: creation of accounts, resolve queries.
• Other duties: from credit card queries to ad hoc support to colleagues. Ideally you will have worked and be familiar with finance systems and be an advanced user of Excel. You’ll be reliable, accurate and willing to get stuck in as part of a collaborative and highly supportive team.

If this sounds like a great way to move onwards and upwards in your career – we are hiring now, so please complete the application form including a short cover statement as soon as possible highlighting why we would be missing an opportunity not to bring you into our team.

When you complete your application, remember to evidence the key requirements of the role detailed in the Job Description attached in your supporting statement.

We will be aiming to hold interviews in early March so a quick application would be advised as we may close the role early if we get a good response.