School Finance Officer

Description:

Have you ever considered a career in education finance where you can use your transactional skills to support schools to make a difference to children’s life chances across Islington and beyond? If the answer is yes, why not come and join the school finance team, where you can make a positive difference and further develop your career in education finance.

This is a busy and stimulating role that requires commitment, resilience and professionalism, but gives flexibility and independent working, in line with the service requirements of your schools. You will be working alongside our finance consultants and completing all tasks up to bank reconciliations.

The post holder will contribute to the delivery of high-quality financial reporting and budget management services to schools maintained by Islington Council.

The role involves posting into schools’ accounting systems including;

• Purchase ledger and non-purchase ledger items
• Sales ledger items
• Other income and expenditure
• Bank reconciliations
• System reconciliations

Currently the systems used are FMS and Access Finance.