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Fixed term contract – Maternity Leave Cover
Starting November 2025Monday-Friday 9.00am-5.00pm, full time, full year
(however flexibility may be offered) Salary dependent on experience
Closing date: 8.00am on 24 th September 2025
Interviews: w/c 29 th September 2025
Application form: https://form.jotform.com/230384617821355
Our Lady of Sion School is a small, caring community where students and staff thrive. We belong to a world-wide family of Sion schools and our ethos is hugely important to us and all other Sion schools around the world.
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Bursar/Assistant Management Accountant to join our small friendly team. You will possess strong financial and management accounting skills, be a self-starter and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You will be pro-active and have proven experience in providing professional support at Senior level in a business or school environment. You will have good IT skills, particularly Excel and experience of accounting software, with the ability to analyse and interpret data effectively to prepare detailed reports based on statistical analysis and findings.
The successful candidate will have very high standards of accuracy, be able to communicate easily with parents, staff and pupils and have a good understanding of bookkeeping, data protection and handling of sensitive information.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have:
- Experience of producing management accounts, budgetary estimates, reports, cash flow and financial and statistical summaries
- Experience of the principles and methods of book-keeping and its adaptation to various purposes, including the preparation of final accounts
- AAT Level 3 qualified or equivalent
- Minimum A level standard, including 5 GCSEs (9-5/ A*-C) including Maths and English
What we are looking for:
- A well-qualified, industrious, and talented team player, together with the initiative to work on your own with complex tasks
- Excellent attention to detail skills
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to coordinate and prioritise activities in a timely manner, experience of working on several projects at a time
- The commitment to care for everyone in our school community
- To support the Sion ethos of our school.
What we can offer you:
- The opportunity to join our lovely school of around 380 students aged 3-18, supported by a hugely talented and hard-working staff team
- Polite, respectful, committed students who are positive and active learners
- Excellent professional development and guidance
- An ethos of kindness and consideration that is actively lived-out
If you believe you have what it takes and are genuinely excited about the prospect of taking on this critical role, we look forward to hearing from you. Please complete our online Application form https://form.jotform.com/230384617821355, ensuring that you provide evidence of your impact and how you would meet the requirements within the person specification.
CVs and non-standard application paperwork will not be accepted as part of the application process.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media accounts, as part of their application.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
All job applicants are considered equally and consistently to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds regardless of your sex, age, disability, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership, religion, or belief.
Casual contract, term time sessions only during November 2025, February 2026 and then May – June 2026Exam sessions –
Starting: ASAP
Closing Date: 24 th September 2025
Interviews: w/c 29 th September 2025
Application form: https://form.jotform.com/230384617821355
Our Lady of Sion School is a small, caring community where students and staff thrive. It is an excellent place to teach and learn. We belong to a world-wide family of Sion schools and our ethos is hugely important to us and all other Sion schools around the world.
We are seeking an Exams Invigilator/Scribe/Reader for the Summer term exams. Working on a casual basis during the mock season in February and then May and June each year, the exact dates are determined once the relevant exam boards publish the timetable and will be confirmed with as much notice as possible.
For 2025, we anticipate that this will be between 3 February – 14 February and then 8 May to 24 June 2025. We would like a minimum commitment of 10 sessions/30 hours during these dates, and there will be up to 40 sessions/120 hours available.
What we are looking for:
- Good administration, organisation and attention to detail skills
- Experience of working calmly under pressure to deadlines
- GCSE in English and Maths A*-C or equivalent grade
- The commitment to care for everyone in our school community
- To support the Sion ethos of our school
- No experience is necessary as full training will be given.
What we can offer you:
- The opportunity to join our lovely school, on a casual basis, of around 380 students aged 3-18, supported by a hugely talented and hard-working staff team
- Polite, respectful, committed students who are positive and active learners
- An ethos of kindness and consideration that is actively lived-out
If you believe you have what it takes and are genuinely excited about the prospect of taking on this critical role, we look forward to hearing from you. Please complete our online application form https://form.jotform.com/230384617821355, ensuring that you provide evidence of your impact and how you would meet the requirements within the person specification.
CVs and non-standard application paperwork will not be accepted as part of the application process.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media accounts, as part of their application.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
All job applicants are considered equally and consistently to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds regardless of your sex, age, disability, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership, religion or belief.
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Role Summary
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All roles are responsible for ensuring the safety, welfare and good conduct of pupils during the school day in accordance with the policies, practices and procedures of the school.
Working with the Examinations Officer and invigilation team to ensure the correct procedures and regulations are followed to ensure the integrity of the exam at all times. To provide scribe and /or reader support to eligible students.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for who you are responsible and with whom you come into contact
- As a Reader, support allocated students within the exam room, (no more than 4 students per reader) by reading any instructions or questions requested by the student or by reading a student’s answer back to them if requested
- As a Scribe, produce an accurate and verbatim transcript of answers dictated by the student in a handwritten format (always 1:1 support)
- Attend regular training sessions for exam invigilators, readers and scribes, both face to face and online
- Be familiar with the JCQ guidelines on exams
- Follow instructions given by the Exams Officer
- To assist with the preparation of the examination rooms ensuring that all awarding body requirements are met
- Opening and distributing exam papers
- To assist with students entering the exam room, ensuring candidates are in the correct seat.
- Reading erratum notices
- Recording start and finish times
- Completing attendance registers
- To lead the exam if required
- Ensure correct procedures and regulations are followed by all students for the duration of the exam
- Report any irregularities and queries to the Exams officer immediately
- Assist in finishing the exam, collecting papers and dismissing students at the end of the exam
- Maintain strict confidentiality in relation to exams
- , support pupils during the exam, adhering to strict rules governing the role of a reader or scribeIf acting as a scribe and/or reader
Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade and responsibilities of the role as may be required
It is vital to the ethos of the Support Team that the post holder is flexible in taking on additional tasks, willing to offer help to, and cover for, other members of the Team, and treats co-operation and support for colleagues as a top priority.
Professional development
Participate in the school’s appraisal procedures and training and development in order to improve own practice.
Communication
Being aware of confidential issues linked to home/pupil/school work and to keep confidences as appropriate, communicate effectively with the whole school community.
Working with colleagues and other relevant professionals
Being aware and adhering to school policies and procedures, collaborate and work with colleagues and other relevant professionals within and beyond the school, develop effective professional relationships with colleagues.
Work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these. Understanding of the school framework calendar and how that affects workloads.
Personal and professional conduct
Maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, demonstrating positive attitudes, values and behaviours to develop and sustain effective relationships with the school community, have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school, and maintain high standards of attendance and punctuality.
Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
Please note that this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the post holder will carry out. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties appropriate to the level of the role.
Person Specification
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Role Summary
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The financial management of the School is delegated to the Bursar who works in close consultation with the Headteacher and the Chair of the Governors’ Finance Committee. The Assistant Bursar will support this role with the following areas of responsibility.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Finance and Financial Reporting
Termly production of management accounts, including variance and trend analysis, five-year cash flows and other financial information. Any additional schedules required by the Bursar, SLT and Governing Board to facilitate strategy development, forecasting of income, evaluation of financial performance, budgeting and decision making.
Budget and forecast preparation, modelling pupil numbers and fee increases to provide reliable management information for decision making.
Management of cash resources and monitoring of bank balances and deposit accounts, including weekly preparation of rolling cash forecast. Identifying appropriate cash utilisation and assisting the Bursar to develop cash flow strategies, including investments and loans, to meet future requirements.
Be responsible for the collection and banking of payments into the school’s bank account.
Maintain fixed assets register. Post depreciation journals termly as required.
Capital Projects. To advise on financial implications of capital projects and new initiatives and report on the expenditure to date compared to in year budget. Calculate future project budgets and predicted impact on school cash flow.
The timely preparation and submission of all financial returns required by HMRC (in respect of payroll, corporation tax) and pension agencies.
Oversee purchase ledger and bank reconciliations, journal and nominal ledger administration, petty cash, banking.
Provide weekly debtor reporting and debt collection summaries to enable timely collection of fees.
Overseeing monthly balance sheet reconciliations (payroll, pensions, PAYE, NIC and auditor’s schedules) and month end journals.
Billing and revenues
Prepare pupils’ termly bills, working closely with colleagues to ensure new pupils, bursaries, scholarships and extras are billed accurately, and manage the process for the timely collection of all fees and extras, including the operation of the school’s direct debit scheme. Oversee the management of pupil deposits.
Liaising and working with the school’s third party debt collection agency as required.
Ensuring that other income streams, such as those from lettings, donations and fund raising are collected, acknowledged and recorded in the appropriate way.
Preparing submissions to the local authorities to claim Early Years Entitlement.
Assisting staff in assessing the correct costings for school trips and preparing a financial review once completed.
Payroll
Pro-actively carry out payroll reconciliations and journals for payroll (payroll prepared externally).
Prepare annual pay increment schedules, detailing teacher progression through pay scales.
Personal and professional conduct
Maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, demonstrating positive attitudes, values and behaviours to develop and sustain effective relationships with the school community, have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school, and maintain high standards of attendance and punctuality. Work in a collegiate way with the Bursar, Senior Leadership Team and governors of the school.
It is vital to the ethos of the Support Team that the post holder is flexible in taking on additional tasks, willing to offer help to, and cover for, other members of the Team, and treats co-operation and support for colleagues as a top priority.
Professional development
Participate in the school’s appraisal procedures and training and development in order to improve own practice.
Communication
Being aware of confidential issues linked to home/pupil/school work and to keep confidences as appropriate, communicate effectively with the whole school community.
Working with colleagues and other relevant professionals
Being aware of and adhering to school policies and procedures, collaborate and work with colleagues and other relevant professionals within and beyond the school, develop effective professional relationships with colleagues.
Work constructively as part of a team, understanding school roles and responsibilities and your own position within these. Understanding of the school framework calendar and how that affects workloads.
Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to the Bursar.
Please note that this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the post holder will carry out. The post holder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Bursar.
Working pattern
Fixed term contract, maternity leave cover, starting November 2025 for handover and induction, with sole responsibility from February 2026 with an expected end date between November2026 – February 2027. Ideally full time Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00 [however flexibility may be offered], full year.
Benefits
Salary: Competitive, depending on experience.
Holiday: The holiday entitlement is 5 weeks per year plus public holidays. It is expected that leave will be taken in school holidays only
Pension: Support staff pension scheme
Employee Assistance Programme: cover for you and your immediate family members*, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Person Specification
Could suit a recently qualified accountant seeking to gain valuable experience in the education sector.
Person Specification
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media accounts, as part of their application.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
All job applicants are considered equally and consistently to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds regardless of your sex, age, disability, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership, religion or belief.
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