Bursar

Description:

A vacancy has recently arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated, conscientious person, with attention to detail, to join our administration team. You will be working 21.9 hours per week, term time only, split over three days (Days to be mutually agreed). There may be occasions at busy times of the year where you could be asked to work additional hours to meet deadlines and workloads.

Whitehouse Common Primary School is a two-form entry school with a nursery class, catering for pupils between the ages of 3 and 11 years, located in Sutton Coldfield. We are a founder member of the Learning Trust for Excellence (A group of nine local schools) and a member of the Sutton Coldfield Consortium.

The successful candidate will be someone who has excellent numeracy and literacy skills and has the ability to build positive relationships with all stakeholders connected with our school. You will need to be hard working, highly motivated and be able to prioritise your workload to meet deadlines Ideally you will have experience of working in a similar role in a school setting, but this is not essential.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• preparation and monitoring of the school budget

• budget forecasting

• preparing financial reports and attendance at Governing Body meetings

• day to day processing of financial transactions including income, expenditure and school fund account

• monthly EPAS returns

• completion of Local Authority returns

• HR including adverts, contractual changes, staff absences and processing of overtime claims

• managing site and premises in conjunction with other staff