Aston Community Education Trust are a forward thinking and ambitious multi-academy trust, comprising of three secondary academies and nine junior academies across the Rotherham, Sheffield and north Derbyshire areas.

ACET is committed to making a real difference to the lives of our young people and will provide excellent learning and enrichment opportunities for them throughout their time with us.  To be able to achieve this, we need to have a team of dedicated and outstanding staff, who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and effective Finance Officer who will be based initially at our Swinton Academy with a wider requirement to work across all our Senior Academies (Swinton, Shirebrook and Aston) as and when need arises. This role will attract individuals with previous professional finance experience or equivalent.

The post holder will report to the Finance Manager and work closely with both the central finance team and school communities. The successful candidate will be an effective communicator with the ability work to a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

The post holder will -

• Be responsible for providing finance and administration support including raising purchase orders, processing of invoices, reconciling accounts.
• Be the first point of contact for any finance queries.
• Have outstanding organisational skills and the ability to prioritise tasks in a busy environment.
• Have excellent IT skills including experience working with SIMS, Access and Excel and Word

Application Details

Prospective candidates are invited to contact Paula Corbett, CFO at paula.corbett@astoncetrust.org for further information about the role.

Safeguarding

ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children.  This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act.  Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared.  Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.  Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process.  We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.

We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.

Early applications are encouraged as we may close applications early for the right candidate.