AddressAdvertised Vacancy Number: IPS/SS877365
This is a permanent full-time position commencing Term 2, 2024
The Finance Officer will assist the Manager Corporate Services with a range of finance and business operations and work collaboratively with the Executive and Corporate Services Teams and all other staff. The successful applicant will ideally have strong financial experience, sound interpersonal skills, flexibility, and professionalism. They will provide operational and strategic support, ensuring resource use and business processes enable enhanced student learning.
The successful applicant will have relevant extensive experience in schools’ financial management, reporting and procurement, records management systems and maintaining the school accounts, physical assets, and resources, to achieve the outcomes required of the role. Key to this role is the ability to work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, ideally while effectively prioritising and meeting deadlines within a high-pressure secondary school environment.
This position requires a flexible team player with sound communication skills and a thorough understanding and operational knowledge of the relevant systems and policies required to process, maintain, monitor, analyse and extract information. It is highly regarded to have current extensive experience using RM Finance, RM Billing, RM Asset Manager, Flexipurchase and Compass, along with the expertise to check for data integrity and provide support to the finance team. Thorough operational experience in processing
End of Month, End of Calendar Year and Financial Year rollovers in a school environment is required, as is a thorough understanding of Procurement in the Government and Schools systems.
Kinross College is a vibrant secondary school catering for students from Kinross, Burns Beach, Mindarie, and part of Quinns Rocks, located in the City of Joondalup. Situated in the north-western suburbs on the coastal strip, some 30kms from Perth Central Business District and 1 kilometre from the ocean, its position is advantageous in terms of accessibility. Students come from a diverse range of backgrounds with families who are very supportive of Kinross College, which is well known within the community for being an inclusive and caring educational institution.
The current student enrolment includes students from Year 7 to 11 with Year 12 intake commencing in 2025.
All students are taught by subject specialist teachers and in addition to core curriculum, the school offers a wide range of Elective subjects for years 8-10 students and a very comprehensive course selection for Years 11 and 12 with Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), Pathways and Cert courses.
As a school community we want Kinross College to be the very best, striving to ensure that every student is a successful student. All staff are committed to helping students reach their full potential through the development of a curriculum that caters for the needs of individuals as well as groups. Our behaviour management policy and the strategies we employ to teach, manage, and engage students ensure the learning environment is safe, welcoming, and suitably challenging.
This selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy. Applicants assessed as suitable during this selection process may be considered for other similar vacancies that occur throughout our school for up to 12 months following this initial appointment. This includes circumstances where this position becomes subsequently vacant should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised position.
To be suitable for this role, you will need to demonstrate the following work related requirements (selection criteria):
- Financial management skills with the ability to interpret and apply financial and accounting practises and procedures.
- Well-developed organisational skills, including the ability to work with minimum supervision, identify priorities and meet deadlines.
- Well-developed verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships and liaise with individuals at all levels.
- Well-developed computer skills including the ability to create, operate, extract reports and manipulate databases, spreadsheets and systems.
- Conceptual, analytical, and problem solving skills with the ability to apply innovative thinking in problem solving.
Applications will be assessed against these work related (selection criteria) of the position. The business needs of the school may also be considered. It is therefore recommended that you consider all information contained in the advertisement and any other related information before applying for the vacancy.
The Department is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and persons from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.
Further information about Kinross College can be found by visiting kinrosscollege.wa.edu.au or Schools Online.
Additional information about Independent Public Schools is also available here
For further job related information:
Please contact Heather Butler, Manager Corporate Services, by telephoning (08) 9233 67***or emailing **************@education.wa.edu.au
Application Instructions
All applications are submitted online. Select “Apply for Job”, at either the top or bottom of this screen and follow the instructions on your screen.
Your application should include:
- A four to five (4-5) page statement addressing the Work Related Requirements (selection criteria), in context of the role and business needs of the school
- A CV of up to three (3) pages outlining your employment history and professional learning summary relevant to this position
- The contact details for two (2) work related referees who can attest to the claims made in your written application, preferably one being your current line manager.
It is recommended you have these documents completed and ready to attach before selecting “Apply for Job”.
You are asked to complete an online application form and attach your documentation, please allow enough time to complete this process as applications cannot be accepted after the closing date and time.
After you have submitted your application online, you will receive an email confirming lodgement. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please telephone (08) 9264 4***.
If you are having difficulty submitting your online application, please telephone (08) 9264 86***for assistance.
ELIGIBILITY AND TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
Employees will be required to:
- provide evidence of eligibility to work in Australia for the term of the vacancy.
- consent to a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and obtain a current Screening Clearance Number issued by the Department of Education’s Screening Unit prior to commencement of employment.
- obtain or hold a current Working with Children Check.
- complete the Department’s induction program within three months of commencement.
- complete the Department’s training in Accountable and Ethical Decision-Making within six months of appointment and every three years thereafter.
- complete the Department’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness online course within 3 months of commencement.
- complete any training specific to this role required by Departmental policy.
The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process.
Applications must be submitted before 4.30pm (WST) on Thursday, 22 February 2024
APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE
PROFORMA, FAXED, HAND DELIVERED, POSTED, EMAILED AND LATE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.
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