Finance Officer

Lime Trust is looking for a Finance to cover a maternity leave for a 12 month period. This post will be based in the regional hub London (Waltham Forest) and managed by the Finance Business Partner and will help support the team with 4 schools within the London hub.

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure:

• Learners are safe and enjoy learning
• Everyone feels included, respected, and valued
• An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood
• Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Overview of the role:

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who is an ambitious and passionate professional and who will support our schools with their finance processes ensuring our schools deliver a high-quality education to the learners that attend our schools.

We are looking for an individual who has:

• – GSCE grade C or equivalent in English and Maths
• – Competent use of IT packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• – Finance Experience
• – Experience of using PSF and Arbor (or equivalent)
• – Good communication skills with a positive and enthusiastic approach.
• – High level of personal organisation
• – Able to prioritise and manage workload effectively to secure successful outcomes within agreed scheduling·

The postholder will be part of our Regional Finance function and play a large part in delivering a high-quality service to our schools.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.

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