Stevenage (Hertfordshire) / (PT & FT) Transaction Partner/ Employer

HFLRecruitment

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Up to 37 hours per week with part-time hours and flexible patterns considered. (Term time only plus 2 weeks)
Salary: FTE £24,308.60 p.a. (pro-rata for part time)
Location: Officed Based for initial training period. Thereafter hybrid working consisting of remote working and 2 days per week in the Head office in Stevenage or as required to meet business needs.

Would you like to use your bookkeeping skills and experience to support educational settings?

Do you want to develop your financial knowledge and skills within a supportive team?

HFL’s Financial Services Transaction Team provides monthly digital bookkeeping support to maintained schools in Hertfordshire. The post holder will contribute, support and work collaboratively with the wider team to deliver high-quality financial reporting and budget management services to schools maintained by Hertfordshire County Council. In doing so you will develop your depth and breadth of knowledge. You will also have an initial training period where you will be trained on our operating models and financial systems.

The successful candidate will be able to work independently as well as part of a supportive high functioning team. A high level of accuracy is required along with the ability to plan and manage work to achieve results and meet deadlines.

Our ‘working from anywhere’ approach provides colleagues the opportunity to work flexibly in line with their role requirements.

Benefits: a generous employer pension contribution, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 31 days after five-years) or the equivalent paid for Term Time employees, family-friendly policies, hybrid working, paid mileage, a cycle to work scheme, onsite charging points for electric vehicles, access to mental health and wellbeing support, company performance bonus, professional development opportunities, benefit schemes for discounts and cashback offers, and more.

Would you like to know more information about this opportunity? If so, further information can be found in the job outline attached. You can also contact Tina Shackleton via email on Tina.Shackleton@hfleducation.org and provide your mobile no. so a mutually convenient time can be arranged to discuss the role.
To apply, email hfl.recruitment@hfleducation.org with a detailed CV along with a supporting statement to include responses to the following questions, alternately apply via our website: Join our team | HFL Education

1. How do you prioritise your work demands ensuring all relevant deadlines are met on time?
2. What actions might you take if you felt that you might be unable to meet a deadline, and how might you approach this?
3. If a complaint from one of your clients was received how would initially deal with this?
4. Give an example of being a team player, i.e., how have you supported a colleague to team to reach an aim or priority? What role did you play? What steps did you take?

As part of our move towards eradicating unconscious bias within the recruitment process, we will be anonymising your forms.

For recruitment queries, our Central Recruitment Team can also be contacted on the hfl.recruitment email address above. We would love to hear from you.

As we review applications on a rolling basis, we may close the advert if we find a suitable candidate. To ensure you don’t miss this opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Interviews will be taking place either Face to face in Stevenage or via Microsoft Teams.

We are committed towards becoming an anti-racist organisation, and our recruitment statement is set out below in support of this.

HFL is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We insist on the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and will never condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

HFL is also equally committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and we encourage you to view our Anti-racist position statement which gives clarity on our anti-racist stance. In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in our organisation, our education system and in all aspects of our society. Therefore, for recruitment into any HFL post, where we have 2 or more candidates of equal merit, candidates with protected characteristics will be given advantage over candidates without such characteristics. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘tie-breaker’ and is referred to as ‘positive action’ in the Equality Act 2010.

To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.

Please note that if you are invited to interview, we will expect you to be prepared to discuss unconscious bias with us; we find these conversations more than any others give us all a good idea of what working together will be like.