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School Finance Manager

TN United Kingdom

London

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GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

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Job summary

An established school is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee financial operations and provide strategic insights to the leadership team. This role involves managing budgets, ensuring compliance with reporting deadlines, and collaborating with various support functions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in school finance, allowing them to make impactful contributions to the school's financial health. Join a dedicated team where your expertise will help shape the future of the institution, ensuring sound financial practices and supporting key projects and initiatives.

Qualifications

  • Experience in school finance management with a focus on budgeting and reporting.
  • Strong analytical skills to provide financial insights and support decision making.

Responsibilities

  • Manage income and expenditure, providing insightful reporting for the leadership team.
  • Set and control budgets, ensuring financial compliance with local authority deadlines.

Skills

Budget Management
Financial Reporting
Analytical Skills
Procurement Management

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting
Professional Finance Qualification

Job description

My client is an Ealing based school, looking to recruit a Finance Manager to work closely with the Headteacher and wider school leadership team.

The role centres on managing the income and expenditure of the school, providing insightful reporting and analysis for the SLT. Key to success in this post will be setting and controlling budgets, alongside the financial management and appraisal of the procurement of services, supplies and products for the school. You’ll become the trusted advisor to the Head, helping with sound strategic financial insight on future projects, plans and investments. You’ll ensure various local authority reporting deadlines are met, managing the ESFA and HRMC statutory returns. You’ll work in close proximity with other areas of the support function to aid collaborative working and decision making and be an active participant in those areas.

Applications are sought from experienced school finance candidates, looking to join a settled school staff and with autonomy to make a real impression on the school.

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