Finance Business Assistant
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 05 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Sutton, Not recorded, SM1 1DA |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | f5f458ab-4cbf-472f-92e9-35396feb8403 |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Business Assistant to play a key role in managing insurance and compliance across our Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to support our schools and college centres by ensuring accurate record-keeping, smooth insurance administration, and effective liaison with internal teams and external partners. You’ll deputise for the Finance Business Manager when required and help maintain high standards of compliance and efficiency. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and have a keen eye for detail, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deputise for the Finance Business Manager, providing guidance on insurance claims and ensuring compliance in their absence.
• Manage insurance administration, including renewals, claims processing, and maintaining accurate insurance registers and certificates.
• Act as the main point of contact for insurance matters, liaising with internal teams, brokers, and underwriters to ensure coverage for excursions, contractors, and events.
• Ensure compliance and accuracy, keeping insurance records up to date for vehicles, equipment, and engineering insurance, and supporting staff training where required.
• Stay informed and proactive, monitoring industry updates, attending webinars, and contributing to process improvements for insurance management.
Key Requirements:
• GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths (Grade C/4 or above).
• Experience working in a finance or administrative role.
• Understanding of financial processes and compliance requirements.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Professional, reliable, and discreet.
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
• Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
• Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
• Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
• Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
• Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Business Assistant to play a key role in managing insurance and compliance across our Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to support our schools and college centres by ensuring accurate record-keeping, smooth insurance administration, and effective liaison with internal teams and external partners. You’ll deputise for the Finance Business Manager when required and help maintain high standards of compliance and efficiency. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and have a keen eye for detail, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deputise for the Finance Business Manager, providing guidance on insurance claims and ensuring compliance in their absence.
• Manage insurance administration, including renewals, claims processing, and maintaining accurate insurance registers and certificates.
• Act as the main point of contact for insurance matters, liaising with internal teams, brokers, and underwriters to ensure coverage for excursions, contractors, and events.
• Ensure compliance and accuracy, keeping insurance records up to date for vehicles, equipment, and engineering insurance, and supporting staff training where required.
• Stay informed and proactive, monitoring industry updates, attending webinars, and contributing to process improvements for insurance management.
Key Requirements:
• GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths (Grade C/4 or above).
• Experience working in a finance or administrative role.
• Understanding of financial processes and compliance requirements.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Professional, reliable, and discreet.
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
• Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
• Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
• Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
• Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
• Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.