Finance Assistant

Company: Ellison Boulters Church of England Primary School
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Location: Lincoln
Job Description:

Duties

  • Processing orders, invoices and payments through purchase ledger and/or cash book using Xero software.
  • Reconciliation of all income received via Arbor, childcare vouchers and school office.
  • Responsible for paying in all income to school bank accounts in accordance with the finance policy.
  • Weekly bank reconciliation.
  • To be responsible for all Music tuition in school – i.e. arranging tuition for pupils, raising invoices and reconciling payments.
  • Debt recovery.
  • Check all supplier statements and investigate payments to comply with statutory timescales.
  • Maintain links with suppliers to identify lead times and delivery dates ensuring efficient and effective delivery of orders.
  • Assist School Business Manager with budget preparation and monitoring and to produce spreadsheets and reports showing analysis of various costs and information as required by head teacher or governors.
  • Any other duties of a similar nature and level of responsibility as requested by the School Business Manager.

Relationships

Responsible to the School Business Manager

Contacts and relationships

  • Daily contact with students, school employed staff
  • Working alongside School Business Manager and Admin Assistant
  • Regular contact with parents/carers, external bodies

Decisions

  • Discretion: Work is carried out in accordance with policies and procedures and post holder can seek advice from line manager.
  • Consequences: Impacts on students and school community. Impact on school administrative processes, which is likely to be easily identified and remedied.

Resources

  • Learning materials and resources
  • General office equipment needed to carry out tasks.

Work Environment

  • The post holder will experience some interruption which is intrinsic to the role but this should not cause any overall change to the task.
  • Physical demands: General office work, may involve long periods of working at a computer.

Work Conditions

Well-lit and well ventilated general office environment.

Knowledge and skills

  • Knowledge of Xero finance package or similar
  • 6-12 months experience of working in a similar role
  • Computer literate
  • Essential: 4 GCSEs
  • Knowledge of spreadsheets
  • Appropriate NVQ Level 2 or equivalent.

Additional responsibilities

Elements of this job description may be negotiated at the request of either party and with the agreement of both.

Performance Management

School Business Manager – Kerry Fogg

Supervision of people

  • The post holder will not be required to supervise personnel in school.

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Posted: June 19th, 2026