Finance & HR Administrator

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, organised and highly accurate Finance & HR Administrator to provide effective financial, payroll, HR and administrative support across Illuminate Minds Trust.

This is a full-time position working 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, on Bexley 05.1.

The successful candidate will have a strong aptitude for working with financial and numerical information, excellent attention to detail and good organisational skills. You will be confident using ICT, including Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft 365 applications, and able to manage a varied workload while meeting key deadlines.

This is a varied role working closely with our Finance and HR teams. The successful candidate will support the accurate processing and maintenance of financial, payroll and staff information and will help ensure that Trust procedures, records and deadlines are maintained to a high standard.

Key responsibilities will include processing purchase orders, invoices and payments, supporting payment runs, maintaining financial records, assisting with trip income and expenditure, obtaining quotations, checking timesheets and providing payroll and pension information to external providers where required. You will also provide general administrative support to the Finance and HR teams and wider Central Trust functions.

The role involves handling confidential financial, payroll and employee information, so discretion, accuracy and professionalism are essential. You will also liaise with colleagues, budget holders, suppliers, auditors, service providers and other stakeholders, building positive and professional working relationships.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 5 GCSEs at Grade 5 or above, including English and Maths, or equivalent qualifications, and will demonstrate a willingness to develop their knowledge and skills through further training and professional development.

If you are organised, numerate, approachable and enjoy working in a busy environment where no two days are quite the same, this could be an excellent opportunity to join our Central Trust team and develop your experience across both Finance and HR.

Illuminate Minds Trust is a small but aspirational trust with ambitions to grow and work collaboratively with primary mainstream and SEND schools in order to creatively meet the needs of all pupils in our communities. We are highly inclusive and forward-thinking, believing that every child deserves the best education with the mission statement of "Excellence Every Day" as the golden thread woven through our schools.

Fairford Academy Barnehurst and Pelham Primary School are both part of Illuminate Minds Trust. Partnership working across the Trust is encouraged and supported, with staff working collaboratively to share expertise and deliver the very best outcomes for our children.

Illuminate Minds is proud of our schools' inclusive principles, creative solutions to SEND, our culture of embedded safeguarding and the focus we put on quality CPD, evidence-based research and our coaching culture. We encourage all of our staff to engage in professional development and peer support with the aim of everyone working together to strengthen our offer and achieve their best.

We recognise that for our pupils to succeed and make outstanding progress, they need staff working with them who are committed to the continual drive for improvement and keen to upskill themselves.

If you believe that every child has the potential to achieve and experience success, truly enjoy working as part of a collaborative organisation and understand the value of education as a means of opening doors and widening horizons, then Illuminate Minds may be the right organisation for you!

"Excellence Every Day" through:

• Working with children, young people and their families to promote engagement in learning and a work ethic which will help them secure a positive future.
• Delivering a curriculum in every school which meets the needs of the cohort and supports the development of rounded individuals with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and have agency over their futures.
• Offering experiences which are rich and diverse and widen the perspectives of all of our pupils beyond their lived experiences, reducing gaps and disadvantage.
• Encouraging participation and ownership of the school communities by all members of our staff to enable Trust development through contribution and collaboration.
• Creating a coaching culture to develop a workforce which is flexible to meet the need of every child or young person within our academies and "future proofs" us as a Trust in an ever-changing landscape.
• Developing systems and processes which safeguard our communities and reduce workload through sharing of resources and practices and avoidance of duplication.
• Ensuring the learning environment is fit for purpose, safe and stimulating to support the development of confident, happy pupils who want to attend school and are kept safe.
• Ethical leadership of the Trust.

You can apply for this vacancy using the apply button above.

References will be requested for shortlisted candidates prior to interview. Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted.

Illuminate Minds Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the school.

Illuminate Minds Trust is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery and expects employees to comply with our values of promoting equality and diversity, treating colleagues and service users with dignity and respect at all times. This commitment must be evidenced in practice. Any behaviour that falls below these standards is unacceptable to the School and potentially constitutes misconduct.

This post is considered to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the person specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.

A copy of the job description, our Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy and recruitment pack are attached for your information.

Link to our website: https://www.illuminateminds.org/