Simone Corry

Dynamic and results-driven professional with hands-on experience in delivering administrative, managerial, and clerical support in a fast-paced environment. Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, excel in coordinating office logistics, optimising workflows, and providing exceptional support to executives and teams. Experienced in maintaining confidential information and streamlining office operations for significant productivity gains.

Reliable team member with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish professional relations with clients, colleagues, and seniors.

Senior Office Administrator - OMBC Alexandra Park Junior School, Oldham - Oldham

(2009-01 - 2024-01)

Ensured the smooth functioning of the school operations and contributed to the success of the school by efficiently handling a variety of tasks and responsibilities.

• Utilise the SIMS system on a daily basis to update pupil details, produce reports, and accurately maintain attendance records
• Generate purchase orders and manage invoices, maintaining financial accuracy and compliance
• Process and deposit dinner money, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in financial transactions
• Liaise with external agencies to secure supply teachers, minimising disruptions to the learning environment
• Administer cases involving extended holidays, including the responsible submission of fines to the local council
• Delivered exceptional customer service by addressing calls from external organisations and parents, offering insightful responses to inquiries
• Managed interactions with parents and visitors, creating a welcoming and supportive atmosphere
• Maintained comprehensive financial spreadsheets, ensuring an accurate overview of funds coming in from students and tracking outstanding balances, especially for school trips
• Implemented a proactive approach to attendance, sending letters to parents of consistently absent children and coordinating health panel meetings to address attendance issues constructively
• Personally responsible for dealing with purchase orders and invoicing, ensuring all suppliers are paid within set timeframes to positively impact ongoing working relationships
• Handling multiple telephone calls from parents, other schools and suppliers, dealing with all queries quickly and efficiently and escalating the same when required
• Responsibly dealing with online payment systems school money where parents pay for dinner money and trips this is money I reconcile in our school bank
• Consistently monitoring student attendance, informing parents of any absence / lateness and encouraging / arranging meetings to discuss any arising problems focusing around health or school issues
• Print off reports for teachers and head teacher when requested, also involves designing reports as needed
• Keeping student and parent details constantly up-to-date as well as sending text messages to parents, issuing fines for holidays during term time and letters regarding health panels, lateness and absence warnings
• Working on the target tracker holding all pupil assessments and test results
• Submitting teachers and head teachers with reports and sending CTF's to other schools when children move away or go to secondary school
• Sending letters out regarding lateness/absences and off rolling if a child hasn't returned to school on the agreed date on extended holiday form
• Phoning for quotes for trips ie coaches
• Monitoring attendance on fast track
• Monitor the budget and take part in budget meetings/ run reports for headteacher and Governors
• Make sure staff absence insurance is Education Mutual in order to claim money back
• Do timesheets on itrent if members of staff has done over time
• Have regular meetings with the site manager and kitchen staff to make sure all is running smoothly
• Put together staff contracts and variations in hours or leavers to send to HR and make sure this is updated on our financial system fms and sims
• Reconciliation of bank account every month and claim back our VAT
• Keep track of weblog book for contractors for schools repairs in which I need to supply purchase order numbers
• Run bacs in order to upload to our bank which then pays suppliers

Office manager and attendance lead - East Crompton St George's Primary Shaw - Shaw

(2025-11 - 2026-02)

• Paying invoices
• Raising invoices using Civica
• Analysing attendance
• Arranging meetings with parents regarding help regarding their child's attendance percentage and how we could help

Admin assistant - St Anne's RC Primary School

(2025-05 - 2026-03)

• Finance, invoices and purchases orders
• Attendance officer
• Data management- Cpoms staff

Purchase Ledger Officer - Newbridge Mutil Academy Trust

(2026-03)

• Paying invoices for the 9 schools that are part of the trust
• Raising invoices
• Recharges
• Charge cards and receipts
• Using IRIS financials
• Purchase Orders
• Analysis of staff expenses
• Managing the purchase order inbox
• Month end procedures

Admin - Supply Agency

Administrator - Our Lady's High School

TA / Admin - Supply Agency

Customer Services Representative - passport checker and picking and packer - 3M

TA Work / Admin - Supply Agency

Nanny - London-Based Celebrity - Private - London

TA Work - Supply Agency

Creche Assistant - Carcraft

GCSE - North Chadderton Secondary School

Level 3 Diploma - Child Care - Hopwood Hall College