Total 17 job vacancies by Hays Specialist Recruitment

Your new company
Your new company are a leader in their field based in Sheffield centre and are looking for a Purchase Ledger assistant to join their team on a temporary basis until February 2025.
2 month temporary role
ASAP START
£24,000-£26,000

Your new role
In this role, you will be responsible for processing purchase ledger invoices for all Group companies and handling ad-hoc purchase ledger queries under the supervision of the Purchase Ledger Coordinator. You will maintain the suspense accounts, ensuring timely authorisation of invoices, and manage the filing of invoices and matching with purchase orders. Additionally, you will need to liaise with suppliers for account reconciliations, collate company card statements and receipts, and monitor accounts emails to ensure all messages are appropriately addressed. You will also work with business support regarding procedures for expenses and credit cards, download and check expense statements, and administer company petty cash and related documentation.

What you'll need to succeed
* Possess experience and a good working knowledge of Excel and Sage.
* Be able to demonstrate accurate data entry skills.
* Be able to hit the ground running within a fast paced team.
* Possess the ability to work as part of a team and alone.
* Possess a proven ability to organise and prioritise your own workload to achieve deadlines.
* Be proactive in your approach, have a 'can do' attitude, and be willing to new learn new skills.

What you'll get in return

ASAP Start employment
Sheffield city centre based role
£24,000 - £26,000 p/annum
2 month temporary role
On site parking

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Your new company
Hays Finance are working with a construction company based in Sheffield who are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner.
Your new role
As Finance Business Partner, you will be working with a number of different portfolios of work in core, none core and third party and be responsible for working with the Finance Manager and Assistant Management Accountant on the preparation of Management Accounts as well as ensuring the Commercial and Operations team are achieving full financial optimisation.
Duties include;

• Reviewing key financial data in both core and non-core businesses
• Collate and summarise information across the finance, commercial and operations team and providing overview analysis to finance and non-financial managers
• Support Commercial and Operations Managers during external audits
• Work with the commercial and operations to manage internal financial controls, processes and procedures
• Support with analysis required resulting from M&A Activity
• Identify areas of improvement across the business
• Influence non-financial stakeholders with influencing skills
• Manage the accounts apprentice

What you'll need to succeed

• An accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA)
• Experience in Management Accounts
• Stakeholder Management and influencing skills
• Good Microsoft Excel skills and experience using SAP would be preferable.

What you'll get in return
An opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisation with an established, settled finance team. Flexible working hours and a hybrid working pattern. Competitive salary up to £65k per annum and fantastic benefits package
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Your new company

Your new company is a lovely not for profit based in Sheffield. They are seeking to recruit a finance executive as a key part of their team, working directly with the head of finance and overseeing a great finance apprentice.

Your new role

The Finance Executive role involves ensuring accurate processing and reconciliation of all income, including cash, cheques, and online donations, into the fundraising CRM and accounts package. This includes coding donations correctly, supporting timely banking of funds, and coordinating gift aid submissions. The role also involves raising and managing invoices, chasing outstanding debts, and handling legacy income. For expenditure, the Finance Executive ensures purchase invoices and credit card expenses are processed accurately, assists with expense queries, prepares payment runs, and reconciles creditor accounts. They also manage bank reconciliations, handle non-income and non-creditor payments, and support investment management. Additionally, the role supports the production of month-end and year-end accounts, manages accruals and prepayments, and updates grant expenditure. The Finance Executive also reviews budget lines, supports fundraising events, and handles ad hoc tasks as needed.

What you'll need to succeed

• AAT qualified
• Experience in an equivalent finance position, ideally overseeing a small team
• Taking accounts to trail balance

What you'll get in return

ASAP start permanent employment
Competitive salary
A great, hard working team

What you need to do now


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Your new company

I am currently looking for a School Finance Officer, located in Sheffield. The leadership team create a supportive environment to allow both pupils and staff to develop. There is a welcoming and positive ethos to make everyone feel welcome within a highly diverse school. The school are looking for someone to join their forward-looking team as soon as possible.

Your new role

This will be a full-time role, maintaining the school's financial management system. You will support the business manager with everything related to processing income and expenditure of the school. This will all be completed in Welsh. Day to day activities can include:Process weekly BACS run
Update income registers
Process invoices
Produce purchase orders
Reconcile bank statements
Assist with the preparation and submission of statutory reports as required, for example, VAT reports or reconciliations to the local authority.
Prepare reports for the head teacher and governors.

What you'll need to succeed

You must have previous school finance experience and a DBS check on the update service is ideal.
You will be able to use SIMS and FMS.

What you'll get in return

This is an opportunity to work with a fantastic Sheffield school within a MAT. The school will be looking for support on a long term basis with potential to go permanent for the right candidate.
£15-£18 p/hour dependent on experience.

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Your new company
The company are seeking a Finance and Payroll Officer to be a leading presence within the team. This is a permanent role based in Sheffield with elements of Hybrid working, good central location and close to public transport links.
This role is an immediate start subject to interview, with interviews set to take place WC 23rd Sept. This position is crucial to support the team in delivering financial services by collaborating with the finance business partner to ensure accurate and timely accounting. If you are looking for a position that will see you apply your knowledge to make a big impact on the wider business and its decision-making, apply now.


Your new role

• Responsibilities include managing financial ledgers, maintaining fixed asset registers, supporting the production of management and statutory accounts, overseeing monthly payroll, ensuring HMRC compliance, handling supplier payments, and managing expenses.
• Oversee the daily operations of a small finance team whilst leading the payroll operation for 250 employees
• Contributing to management accounts, forecasts and budgets for your department - working with the finance business partner, stakeholders, and senior management as well as providing support for the end-of-year audit.
• Actively develop the internal finance processes and team members to drive for continuous improvement.
  
  
  

What you'll need to succeed

• Part-qualified through ACCA / CIPP or Qualified by Experience
• A keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of transactional finance.
• Experience of processing a wide range of ledgers and payroll functions.
• Excellent ability to build a collaborative environment across business functions.
• Strong Excel skills for complex functions and formulas across spreadsheets

What you'll get in return

• Full-time permanent work
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Pension, life insurance and great benefits
• Collaborative working environment.

What you need to do now
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Your new company
Working for a global company who are innovative leaders in their field. They are looking for a Purchase Ledger who is able to work at pace to a high standard. They are strong believers in empowering their people through training, development and opportunities. This position is based in Sheffield and will require travel to the site 3 days per week at minimum.
Your new role
Reporting to the Finance Manager as Purchase Ledger Clerk, your day-to-day role will be to support the efficient and effective delivery of services within the Finance Department. This includes:

• Purchase Invoice processing - ensure all is matched between Purchase Order, Goods Received note and Purchase Invoice.
• Investigating mis-matches and working with the team to resolve discrepancies.
• Maintaining the purchase ledger - running monthly purchase ledger report.
• Maintainstrong internal control over the Purchase Ledger function, ensuring properprocedures for purchase orders and invoices.
• Making sure purchase invoices are processed and closed at the end of the period to prevent manual accruals as part of the month-end preparation and closure procedures.
• Monitoring and identifying costs to the business.
• Perform supplier statement reconciliations and keep track of them for audit support.
• Supportthe Finance Manager in the preparation and execution of the annual audit.

What you'll need to succeed

• Proven experience in a similar role working with a high volume at pace.
• Strong customer service ability to build effective relationships.
• Ability to support annual audits and their preparation.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Proficiency in financial software and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics is desirable but not essential.

What you'll get in

• Learning and career development opportunities.
• Salary up to £30,000 plus incentives.
• Options to buy/sell holidays
• A flexible benefit portal.

What you need to do now
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Your new company
You will be working for a school based in Sheffield as financial officer, within a small but friendly team.
Monday - Friday / 8:30 - 16:30

Your new role
As the Finance Officer, you will support with provision of financial support and information. You will ensure all financial management is sound and procedures are adhered to with relevant reports submitted to the central finance department in accordance with deadlines within the school.

Fast-paced environment, with your day to day focusing on:
Purchase ledger duties
Bank/Supplier reconciliations
Raising Purchase Orders
Processing Invoices and payment runs
Posting journals

What you'll need to succeed

Ideally, AAT qualified, or working towards
Experience of using accounts and budgetary software
Experience of using Excel/Word
Ability to form and maintain appropriate and effective relationships with other members of staff
Excellent numeracy and literacy skills

What you'll get in return
Immediate employment
Weekly pay

What you need to do now


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Your new company
Your new company will be a successful property management organisation with a wide array of property types within its portfolio. They're looking to add a Credit Controller into their Finance function, could this be the right role for you?

Your new role
Responsibilities of the role:

• Collect payments from clients and manage the credit control process for the offices
• Allocating receipts from clients
• Performing month-end bank reconciliations
• Applying the credit control procedures, and liaising with the solicitors as and where necessary.
• Billing of service charges
• Assisting with reconciliation of supplier accounts.
• Assisting the block management accounts team with ad hoc duties.

What you'll need to succeed
Firstly, prior experience of Credit Control and bank reconciliations will be a great foundation for this role. Any experience of day-to-day finances will be a benefit, as will any understanding of the property industry. Good communication skills are essential, as is the ability to be able to work as part of a team, but also work on their own initiative to collect ageing debt and to manage accounts in arrears.

What you'll get in return
This organisation offers 28 days holiday, your birthday off and 3 days off over Christmas exclusive of your allowance. There is an employee & store discount scheme, a cycle to work scheme and free parking.

What you need to do now
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Your new company
Your new company will be a Financial Services organisation with a twist, they're here to service their customer's needs and promote financial wellbeing over making profit. Nearing 30 years in operation, they've supported over 20,000 customers with fantastic reviews. They're now in the market to add a Finance Assistant to their team, with the responsibility of the creation, collection and allocation of Direct Debits, downloads and verification of payroll files and the processing of daily payment run for share withdrawals and loans.

Your new role
This is not a usual Finance Assistant role due to the nature of the organisation, but will provide a varied workload. The duties of the role include the generation, collection and allocation of weekly and monthly Direct Debit runs, downloads and verification of payroll files and processing of daily payment runs for share withdrawals and new loans issued whilst ensuring all verifying criteria and bank details are correct. The individual must ensure the confidentiality of records in order to meet GDPR standards and liaise with external auditors and provide information and reports where necessary. Other duties may be given as directed by the Finance Manager or Directors.

What you'll need to succeed
To be considered for the role, you ideally will have experience in the collection of funds utilising various methods, the ability to update journals and understand finance systems for processing. If you have any experience with loan collection, direct debit management / Go Cardless knowledge this will be a big benefit, as will any understanding of payroll deductions. There will be the need for IT literacy and good Excel skills. Lastly, good communication / customer service skills are needed,

What you'll get in return
This company offers a good salary for the role, working hours from 8am to 4pm Monday to Thursday and 8am to 3pm on a Friday, with some WFH on an occasional basis. Further benefits include:
Workplace Pension:Employer contribution 5%, Employee contribution minimum of 3%

• Workplace Pension Guidance Service
• Group Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance
• Access to Smart Health - for employees, their partners and children up to the age of 21 years old
• Group Health Cash Plan - Westfield
• Discounted staff loans
• Holidays are 20 days + 8 bank holidays. In addition, Christmas Eve and NYE are classed as non-working days. To reward long service, an additional 1 extra day holiday is given after 5 years of service. After this, an additional 1-day holiday is given, up to a maximum of 25 days in total, after 9 years-long service.
• Sick Pay - full salary up to a max of 13 weeks subject to valid submission of valid fit note and other criteria.

What you need to do now
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Your new company
Hays Finance are delighted to be working exclusively with a large Non-for-Profit organisation based in the region who are looking to add a Finance Lead to their team to support them through a period of transition.
Your new role
The organisation is embarking on a new long-term strategy which they are looking to deliver on a 3-year finance strategy. The role will focus heavily on all financial aspects of the sustainability programme. This will include, but not be limited to, ensuring that business case financials are robust, reporting on overall programme spending, forecasting on future expenditure, calculating the overall funding request in respect of reserves drawn-down, maintaining the strategic financial model, assessing its compatibility with the organisation's overall funding financial strategy, and any other financial tasks associated with the programme

Main Duties include;

• To ensure the core strategic financial model is kept up to date and reflects changes in the timing of the various activities
• To provide updates on the progress of the plan to SLT both in its own capacity and when it is acting as the Change Board for the programme, and the finance committee
• To work with the core finance team to ensure the programme financial data is accurately reflected in management accounts, forecasts and budgets
• To ensure consistent practice in business cases, recognise the organisations policies, processes and structures.
• Providing appropriate commercial and business advice and challenges to projects and studies in areas like income generation, new ventures and funding.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience of successfully defining, planning, delivering, monitoring and valuing multiple complex, high-risk, high value and cross-organisational projects concurrently
• Strong experience of organisations going through considerable business change
• Deep experience in financial and non-financial reporting in a programme-based environment
• Adept skills in financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Deep knowledge of tools and techniques used in a project-based environment, such as management reporting, financial modelling, project appraisal, analysis, benefits identification, tracking reporting & scenario planning
• Excellent communication and stakeholder skills, with proven experience in explaining financial concepts to a non-financial audience

What you'll get in return
An opportunity to join an established finance team at an organisation who promote and inclusive and supportive culture, a competitive salary and fantastic benefit package including hybrid working, enhanced holiday and generous pension contribution.
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Your new company
Our client, a leading reputable manufacturing company, has a new job opportunity for a qualified accountant to join them as Senior Finance Business Partner.
Your new role
The Senior Finance Business Partner - Operations will lead the Financial Performance Management process within operations, ensuring appropriate business analysis is provided to identify opportunities, risks and trends, along with analysis to ensure that operational decisions are supported by comprehensive financial analysis to influence the operational business to deliver against its strategic objectives.Key duties will be varied and include:- Partner with the Operations Leadership team to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of all operational spending, raising challenges and driving course correction, based on financial and commercial information.* Be an active member of the operational leadership team, ensuring your opinions are heard using functional and leadership knowledge to influence decision-making in areas of financial impact.* Provide financial input and challenge into project work including capital and Continuous Improvement projects, improvement in operational reporting, business analysis, system changes.-Lead the Budget and Forecasting process within operations, including the development of the 5-year plan.* Provide sound financial guidance to budget holders to support the development of Operational Business Plans (5YP, Budget, quarterly forecasts) that underpin strategic goals.* Identify the operational KPIs which underpin the successful plan delivery and ensure the alignment with the financial objectives.What you'll need to succeed

• Qualified Accountant with demonstrable experience in a similar role
• The ability to adhere to deadlines and adopt a challenging approach to deliver robust, accurate financial data and information to meet business needs.
• Experience in the analysis of complex financial information using financial modelling tools.
• Sound judgement and ability to make evidence-based recommendations.
• The ability to cut through ambiguity to provide insight.
• The ability to develop alternative scenarios for financial/commercial issues.
• Demonstrable knowledge and use of an ERP
• Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and transfer it into meaningful financial information for use in business decision-making is required.
• Confident, self-motivated, and resilient, able to proactively identify issues and drive delivery of solutions. Thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong collaboration and business partnering skills, especially in cross-functional contexts

What you'll get in return
A chance to join an established business with a hybrid working job based in Sheffield with a competitive salary and fantastic benefit package
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Your new company
Hays Senior Finance are partnering with a global SME in Sheffield with a £10m turnover to recruit a Finance Manager.
Your new role
In this position you will be joining an established Finance Team reporting to the Finance Director You will be overseeing a small accountancy team responsible for their day to day supervision. You will support the FD with oversight of all transactional duties through monthly account management preparation, cashflow planning, reconciliations and more. A great opportunity to really add value to a well-established business in a newly created growth role.
Your key duties will involve delivering accurate reporting of all financials, including management accounts preparation for review of the Financial Director, P&L, balance sheet reconciliations. You will be involved in assisting with budgeting and forecasting processes, cashflow planning and treasury reporting. Timely completion of month-end responsibilities, analysis of commercial processes including monitoring margins and costs, co-ordinating with supply chain teams to manage working capital processes, including stock management, procurement, and debtors. You will support in year-end audit co-ordination, process/system improvement/implementation, along with processing of monthly salaries. You will support the ongoing development of a small accounting team with oversight of all transactional duties, including purchase/sales ledger processes, bank reconciliations and credit control, while remaining hands-on in busy periods.


What you'll need to succeed
To be considered for this hands-on Finance Manager role, you will need experience in a similar position, excellent attention to detail and accuracy, with key MS, excellent MS skills, and experience in financial systems. You will have experience preparing monthly management accounts, including balance sheets and P&L's, along with being used to managing workloads to time-constrained deadlines. Ideally, you will be a qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA/AAT or qualified by experience. You will be a team player, but also able to use your own initiative with key problem-solving skills and be willing to adapt to business needs. Experience with SAP and Sage financial systems, along with supervisory/management experience in an SME, would be advantageous but not essential.
What you'll get in return
A fantastic salary and benefit package including Full-time hours of 36.5 per week, rising holiday allowance up to 30 days plus bank holidays with length of service, contributed pension scheme up to 7.5 % from the employer, and various other group benefits. A great opportunity to really support an established Finance Director and supervise a small accounting team within an interesting business. .
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Your new company
This is a newly created role for a large FMCG organisation based in Sheffield. This is working as part of an established finance team with an organisation who put the staff at the heart of what they do.

Your new role

The Financial Controller is responsible for ensuring all general and cost accounting activities are performed in accordance with regional accounting principles; internal controls are properly established and being actively monitored; and financial reporting is complete, accurate and timely. They will ensure the oversight of controlling cost, accounting, record keeping in the other business functions and ensure financial controls are adequate to safeguard from loss or other impropriety in inventory record keeping and labour/overhead usage. The Financial Controller participates in the organisation's management committee.

Main Responsibilities;

• Provide guidance and support to the management staff as well as other functional activities performed across the business to ensure transaction processing, labour costing and overheads are understood.
• Deliver first-level support for the business operations team for all finance and accounting questions.
• Provide bridges and explanations to Division Controller for snapshot and forecast, with analysis of the results vs budget, forecast and last year.
• Prepare the financial reporting and provide information for the consolidation of the services by Division.
• In collaboration with the Director of Operations, provide the monthly operational report and review KPIs to ensure good control of the operations
• Elaborate on the monthly / quarterly snapshot forecast or ad-hoc forecast in collaboration with the Director of Operations to ensure an accurate revenue / EBITDA
• Elaborate on the monthly closing tasks, supervise accounting entries (mainly managed by the global business services) and make sure they are properly entered and balanced
• Perform analysis of the expenses versus projection and budget and propose corrective actions to managers
• Prepare monthly FISL / posting in SAP and perform load in BPC.
• Prepare monthly schedules in accordance with company deadlines and policies.
• Lead the annual 5-year plan revision as well as the site revenue and cost centre budget process.
• Collaborate, review and challenge numbers with BDM and cost centre managers to create the total site budgets.
• Create site-specific deadlines to ensure regional timelines are achieved.
• Ensure the ongoing control over company assets is achieved by establishing a culture and environment where all functional departments (finance, sales, IT, customer service, etc.) provide strict adherence to company standards of Internal Control.
• Be responsible for ensuring accounting and reporting is complete, accurate and timely (including month-end close accounting).
• Maintain adequate reporting for key SOX controls.
• Provide support for internal and external audit requests.
• Continual support of developing management reporting efficiencies.
• Train and delegate other resources to ensure accurate electronic transaction processing occurs in SAP and other software packages (materials requirement, quality, etc.).

What you\'ll need to succeed

• Professional Qualified Accountant e.g. ACCA/ACA/CIMA or Demonstrate exceptional experience in similar role.
• Extensive experience inclusive of accounting and/or financial analysis experience.
• Strong working knowledge and experience of using SAP accounting software
• Microsoft Excel, Power BI knowledge - highly beneficial
• Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills and able to partner with key operations management on a daily basis.
• Highly motivated person who is willing to learn and be challenged by learning
• Proactive and organised approach and proven ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks.

What you\'ll get in return
Permanent position with a hybrid working pattern with 2/3 days per week in the office dependent on business needs, flexible working pattern, competitive salary dependent on experience, Enhanced annual leave & back holidays, enhanced pension contribution, a benefit package to suit your lifestyle.

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Your new company
Your new organisation will be a major public services body in Sheffield who\'re looking to add a Finance Officer to their team to bolster their resilience and provide additional support to their Accountants and Finance Business Partners with clear, accurate and timely financial information.

Your new role
Within the role, you'll provide support with budget setting, profiling all revenue, capital and grant budgets in accordance with the budget-setting timetable, updating the annual budget and reconciling the General Ledger as necessary. You'll monitor the budgets and identify, query and explain any variances to the Management Accountant and provide commentary on expenditure. You'll calculate all accruals, prepayments, collaboration adjustments and external recharges and ensure they are input to the ledger on a monthly and year-end basis. Supporting the Accountant, you'll run capital month end reports and monitor for variances. Lastly, you'll update staff costings, special costings and national framework agreement costings, gathering information from various sources to arrive at the costs and assist with the completion of external returns.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role you'll need to either hold a full AAT qualification or be close to completing the exams, with experience of working in a financial environment including budgetary control and year-end procedures that you can talk through. You'll have the ability to analyse, critically evaluate and interpret financial information and have experience of using a computerised financial information system in a medium to large organisation (including General Ledger), with a knowledge of financial controls and rules regulation. A background in public sector finance would be beneficial and exposure to Oracle for finance a plus.

What you'll get in return
This role is being offered on a 12 month fixed term contract basis with a salary close to £30,000 per annum, with a raft of public sector benefits. The role will be operated in a hybrid style (50% office working). Interviews will be booked wc 15th January

What you need to do now
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Your new company
I\'m pleased to be partnered once again with a leading public sector employer based in Sheffield to support them with the recruitment of a Senior Finance post on a permanent basis. The organisation is a large, complex organisation that delivers vital services to the people of Sheffield and the surrounding areas.
Your new role
You\'ll be joining the organisation providing key leadership functionality alongside 3 other senior finance managers, reporting to the Head of Finance. As part of your remit, you\'ll take on line management responsibility of 4 direct members of staff as well as c.20 indirect, providing and presenting key financial information to various key stakeholders and \'Heads of\'/Directors within the organisation. Alongside your team, you will produce monthly management accounting and forecasting, communicating financial performance effectively to both internal and external stakeholders and developing and enhancing reporting processes, providing a comprehensive wide-ranging financial support service to staff across the organisation. As part of this, you will be offering sound guidance to departments on ways of maximising resources by developing a detailed understanding of service budgets, whilst maintaining and improving the internal control environment
What you\'ll need to succeed
This is a key appointment for the organisation, and as such, you will be required to have the following skills/background/attributes to be eligible to be represented for the position:
* Fully qualified accountant * Prior public sector accounting background, ideally within a similarly complex organisation structure (such as large public services organisations, councils, NHS etc.)
* Excellent communication and presentation skills * Strong coordination skills
* Strong people management skills, having managed teams of similar sizes previously
* Full right to work in the UK (applications from individuals who do not have full UK right to work for the duration of the contract will not be considered)

What you\'ll get in return
This organisation offer some of the most attractive benefits on the market, including:
* Salary up to £58,000c p/a
* Leading pension scheme
* Above market average holiday entitlement (including full Christmas shutdown)
* Flexibility to work hours round your schedule (37 hours per week - subject to key meetings)
* 1 day per week in the office (occasionally 2 days when required for key SLT meetings)

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