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Une organisation éducative réputée recherche un Finance Business Partner dynamique pour rejoindre son équipe financière à Londres. Le candidat idéal aura de solides compétences en comptabilité et en finance, une expérience dans le secteur de l'éducation et sera capable de travailler dans un environnement polyvalent et rapide. Ils joueront un rôle clé dans le soutien du projet EdCity et assureront la préparation précise des rapports financiers tout en collaborant étroitement avec la direction.
About The Role
We are looking for a qualified accountant to join Ark’s finance team as a Finance Business Partner, with a focus on supporting our EdCity development project. This is a vital role for us and requires a person with excellent commercial knowledge and drive, alongside technical skills including cashflow modelling, who enjoys working as part of a busy team, has excellent organisational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
This role requires the Finance Business Partner for EdCity to have an ability to see the value in the information they are providing and to inspire others to make use of it. They will be responsible for preparing monthly management accounts and regular reforecasts. This is a customer service facing role and the successful candidate must be prepared to adapt their ways of working to meet the evolving needs and the ventures, to ensure a high-quality service whilst adhering to Ark’s financial processes, policies and procedures.
The Finance Business Partner for EdCity will report into Finance Director for Ark and Ventures. This role is currently operating hybrid working in our West London Office on a permanent basis working full time.
First-round interviews will take place virtually w/c Monday 16th June and second-round interviews will take place in person w/c Monday 23rd June.
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Benefits
About Us
Ark is an education charity that exists to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, have access to a great education and real choices in life. Our network of 39 schools reaches traditionally underserved communities in Birmingham, Hastings, London and Portsmouth. We educate 30,000 pupils and have nearly 3,000 teaching staff across our network. We also incubate and scale innovative ventures, which we roll out beyond our network of schools for the benefit of teachers, pupils and the education system as a whole. Current Ventures include Ark Curriculum Plus, which equips teachers with the subject expertise needed to ensure students succeed, and Ark Start, a growing chain of nurseries offering affordable, high-quality early years education.
Recently, Ark moved to new offices at EdCity – a unique not-for-profit development in West London, in partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham council. EdCity is designed to bring mission-aligned organisations together to focus on improving the lives of children, especially through education. It offers leased offices, a range of venues for training and events, and an innovation hub for the education sector to connect, collaborate and learn together.
Diversity and inclusion:
We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on thislink.
Safeguarding statement:
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click thislink.
Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.
For any questions, please contact recruitment@arkonline.org.