Finance Admin Assistant Employer Weaver Trust Reference P

Role: Finance Assistant
Location: Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary School
Salary: Grade 4 SCP 4
Actual Salary Pro-Rata: 14927 (FTE: 25184)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 22.5 per week (44 weeks per year so term time plus 5 weeks)
Start Date: 1^st September 2026

The headteacher and governors of Halton Lodge Primary School would like to appoint a Finance Assistant to join our committed and enthusiastic team. This position is to commence as soon as possible.

As always we are looking for a friendly caring person who has the necessary skills to join our hardworking team in helping to provide financial support taking responsibility for designated areas so that financial processes related to the work of the school are effectively executed.

At Halton Lodge Primary School we can offer you:

• A friendly hardworking team of staff;
• A welcoming and vibrant school;
• Happy children who enjoy learning;
• A designated office space;
• Free parking at your place of work;
• The necessary training to become familiar with the school specific IT and finance systems;
• Support from a network of colleagues who carry out very similar roles in the other schools that are part of Weaver Trust.

The successful candidate will:

• Input orders onto the Trust PS Online System;
• Receive and check goods when these are delivered;
• Process and raise invoices using the Trust finance system to ensure that bills are paid on time and accurately;
• Ensure up to date financial records are maintained;
• Administer the finances associated with school activities including online payment systems before and after school club fees trips and residential visits and (potentially in the future) nursery fees and ensuring that necessary information is readily available to the school parents and other stakeholders.
• Maintain oversight of the school budget records to ensure accuracy of information.
• Collect and count any cash (or cheques) received including snack money lunch money charity donations etc and maintain accurate records of all monies received (to ensure that all monies are accounted for).
• Undertake debt recovery with a firm but sensitive approach.
• Liaise with other stakeholders (including members of the Trusts Central Team) work colleagues parents visitors and contractors in a polite professional and courteous manner.

If you have the necessary skills and experience to successfully do this job - as well as the energy and enthusiasm to work in a primary school environment - we would be delighted to hear from you. Equally if you have experience of securing extra money or making successful grant applications on behalf of organisations we would be keen to learn more about each of these and any other expertise that you could bring to the role.

If you have the skills energy and enthusiasm to successfully do this job we would be delighted to hear from you. Please complete our online application form. The application form must be completed in full and returned on time to be considered.

Closing date: 2^nd September 2026 (at 8:00am)

Interviews: will be arranged for week commencing 7th September 2026.

Our school and Weaver Trust place the highest priority on keeping our children safe. Applicants will be subject to a stringent vetting including an Enhanced DBS check and induction process.

If you wish to come to visit the school and find out more about what this role entails please contact the school office ()

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