Welcome to Juniper Education, where our mission is to champion educators, empowering them to shape future generations. We're more than just a support system; we're the driving force that propels schools and Academy Trusts to new heights. With our proven school education management systems and services, we address a spectrum of needs, ensuring excellence in education. In the education and tech industry, your work directly influences the lives of students and educators. Whether you're developing cutting-edge educational technology, supporting school leadership teams directly or designing solutions to enhance the learning experience, you could make a lasting and positive impact on the future.
Our mission statement says it all: We look after you, so that you can look after our children.
Dedicated to our core values, we are committed to:
Empowerment: Equipping everyone with the tools, intelligence, connections, and freedom to make informed decisions, recognised and respected by all.
Purpose: Supporting everyone to reach their highest potential, thereby enabling all children to achieve theirs.
Passion: Because we love what you do, you’re at the heart of everything we do.
Innovation: Delivering meaningful solutions with expertise and creative thinking to influence the ever-changing world of education.
Collaboration: The cornerstone of our success as it enables us to collectively harness diverse perspectives and strengths, ensuring that together, we achieve more than we could ever do alone. Every voice counts!
The Role
To deliver a professional, customer facing financial management support service to school’s / academy’s / Multi Academy Trust’s across the country by remote access and onsite according to geographical location, that enhances their financial management by providing:
Remote / on-site consultancy visits to support the customer’s finance function with expertise on financial management tasks as commissioned by the customer with regard to completion, assistance, guidance, checking, training and reviews. The expertise given will be in accordance with requirements relating to Schools Financial Value Standard, Academies Financial Handbook and Education Funding Agency updates, Essex Scheme of Financing Schools and Scheme of Delegation or the equivalent for the relevant local authority.
The services given will strictly meet Education Finance Support’s Service Standards and terms and conditions.
What you’ll be doing:
Support customers with Local Authority and DfE financial returns, budget preparation, forward financial planning, budget monitoring, forecasting and cashflow management.
Provide one-to-one training for school finance staff remotely and on site, troubleshoot financial anomalies, and support year-end accounting procedures, statutory returns and monthly bursar finance tasks.
Process and review financial transactions, including journals, virements, orders, invoices, petty cash, income and banking, and ensure revenue and capital expenditure is coded in line with Consistent Financial Reporting requirements.
Contribute to the Advice Line on a rota basis, answering financial management queries from school and academy finance teams, headteachers, governors and trustees.
Build strong customer relationships, achieve high levels of satisfaction, support repeat and additional subscriptions, and share relevant market insight with Juniper Education colleagues.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
Accounting qualifications, ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CIPFA, AAT or similar
Experience of school and academy financial software including IRIS Financials, FMS6 & SIMS, SAGE, ACCESS, Arbor, Civica, would be an advantage although training will be provided.
Juniper Education Benefits
Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
Applications for this role must be submitted by midnight July 15, 2026.
