Schools Finance Team Administrator

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Achieving for Children is looking for an administrative professional to cover a maternity leave for 8 months. This full‑time position (8:00 AM to 4:00 PM) will support the entire Schools Finance Team, ensuring efficient and effective team operations.

This range is provided by Achieving for Children. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience – talk with your recruiter to learn more.

• Provide general administrative support to the Schools Finance Team.
• Assist the finance team with ad‑hoc tasks as required.
• Monitor the team email inbox, respond to and resolve queries.
• Support monthly, quarterly and annual reporting procedures.
• Help with internal and external audit queries.

• Experience of finance or schools finance administration is desirable but other administration experience is also encouraged.
• Experience of working within a busy finance team and managing a mixed workload of ad‑hoc, regular, monthly and annual tasks.
• Experience of updating spreadsheets using Google Sheets and Excel.
• Experience of resolving financial administration queries.
• Experience of undertaking financial administration tasks in line with prescribed rules and regulations.
• Experience of maintaining effective partnership working arrangements with key partners and stakeholders, including schools.

• Fixed‑term maternity cover for 8 months.
• Full‑time role.
• Working hours:
  
  8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
• Temporary position.
• Finance team function.

We value diverse experiences and encourage all qualified candidates to apply.