Finance Admin Assistant

Job start date: As soon as possible

Hours per week: 36.5 all year round

Summit Learning Trust

Ninestiles, an Academy

Hartfield Crescent

Birmingham

B27 7QL

Telephone number: 0121 624 9010

Contact email: [email protected]

Contract type: Permanent

Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement

Success through Endeavour

Ambition through Challenge

Strength through Diversity

Be part of a dynamic team to improve finance across an Educational Trust.

Summit Learning Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive person to provide administrative support to our busy Central Finance team based at Cockshut Hill.

No two days are the same in this role and the successful candidate will need to have the resilience and enthusiasm to deliver results in a fast-paced environment. Candidates must have a level 4 or above in GCSE maths and English or equivalent as well as a good level of IT skills and experience working with Microsoft Office packages including, Word, Outlook and Excel. Candidates will also need to be able to demonstrate that you are able to work flexibly, having excellent interpersonal and communication skills is essential. As is the ability to remain calm and professional under pressure, to prioritise your work and multi-task.

About The Trust

Why work for us?

We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth.

These include access to:

• employee assistance programme
• high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression
• wellbeing advocates
• lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme
• health protection scheme alongside flu jab and eyecare vouchers
• generous employer pension schemes
• excellent holiday entitlement

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

How to apply:

Apply via our website

If you require the application form in a different format, please contact: [email protected]

Please note we do not accept CV’s.

Interviews to be held shortly after the closing date.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.