Administrative Assistant – Finance

TISCA; Hatching Green; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Healthcare cover

Job summary

The King’s School, Harpenden, is seeking an Administrative Assistant – Finance to support the Bursar with day-to-day financial administration, including bookkeeping, invoices and supplier payments, banking, VAT returns and payroll. You will handle routine enquiries from staff, parents and external contacts in a professional, discreet manner.

The role, based in a warm school environment, offers the chance to develop finance skills within a supportive Admin Team.

Responsibilities

• Support the Bursar with day-to-day financial administration, including bookkeeping, invoices and supplier payments.
• Manage banking, debt collection, VAT returns and full payroll functions.
• Respond to routine enquiries from staff, parents and external contacts with discretion and professionalism.

Job description

• Post: Administrative Assistant – Finance
• Full-time – 37.5 hours per week
• Start Date: 9 November 2026/as soon as possible thereafter

The King’s School is a warm and friendly environment, with small class sizes, offering you the opportunity to enjoy working and develop your skills, all in a beautiful, rural setting. We have a passionate staff team, who work together to create a learning space for our pupils that challenges and inspires, whilst providing outstanding pastoral care. As staff in a Christian school, we are able to encourage our pupils in their journey of faith and model a relationship with Jesus that is real and relevant. It is this holistic approach – academic progress, character, faith – that makes our school such a special place to work in.

The Administrative Assistant, Finance, will support the Bursar in the effective execution of the day-to-day financial administration specific to independent schools. The role provides broad finance and administrative support, including day-to-day bookkeeping processes, purchase invoices and supplier payments, banking, debt collection, financial records, various statutory returns including VAT, and the full payroll function, while responding to routine enquiries from staff, parents and external contacts. The candidate will work within the Admin Team, should be proactive, organised and possess the ability to communicate effectively at different levels, with colleagues, parents, trustees and outside agencies. As with all staff, the essential requirements include a high level of professionalism, discretion and confidentiality. A unique opportunity to work in a warm and friendly but professional environment in a beautiful rural setting.

The King’s School has its own pay scale, with contributions to an employer’s pension scheme and healthcare cover available to all staff.

• Applications open until Friday, 23 October 2026
• Interviews w/c 2 November 2026

• A clear commitment to the Christian ethos of the school is essential.
• There is a Genuine DfE registered Occupational Requirement (GOR) that the post-holder is a Christian.
• Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010 applies.
• The King’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Candidate will have 2 years referencing taken up, be required to complete a Disclosure Application and have a full enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
• The King’s School, Elmfield, Ambrose Lane, Harpenden AL5 4DU