Finance Manager

Linwood School; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Finance Manager to join their team. This role involves providing expert financial advice, managing the finance team, and ensuring compliance with legal requirements. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in developing the school's financial strategy, compiling budgets, and delivering comprehensive financial services. If you are proactive, possess strong management skills, and are passionate about making a difference in an educational setting, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a supportive environment where your contributions will have a significant impact on the future of the school.

Qualifications

• Recognized professional Accountancy qualification required.
• Experience in financial planning, budgeting, and project management essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial advice for effective decision-making.
• Lead the finance team and ensure proper financial administration.
• Monitor and report on financial results and budgets.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Project management

Management accounting

Team management

Education

Professional Accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

Job description

BCP Council Grade 44-47

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 52 weeks per year, on-site working

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Linwood School, Bournemouth is an Ofsted graded Outstanding SEND school. We are an outward facing centre of excellence in the area. Our values speak of respect, support, inclusivity, positivity, harmony, excellence and responsibility, all underpinned by our actions and personal accountability.

We are looking for a dedicated and proactive individual to join our team as a Finance Manager. In this role you will provide expert financial advice and guidance, ensuring the effective delivery of comprehensive financial accounting, management accounting, and advisory services. You will play a key role in maintaining legal requirements related to people, property, and building functions and will lead and manage a team to work collaboratively across the School, to compile and monitor the annual budget and financial plans agreed by the Governors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide consistent and comprehensible financial advice to enable effective decision making and ensure all stakeholders are advised of the financial implications of their decisions.
• Provide legal advice and liaise with external stakeholders to provide service level agreements and contracts.
• Lead the production of financial reports to ensure accurate financial information is available and financial results are monitored effectively.
• Plan, direct and monitor the work of the finance team, to ensure the proper financial administration of the school is in accordance with policies, strategies and procedures.
• Contribute to the development of the overall corporate financial policy and strategy to secure a firm basis for the school’s budget and medium/long-term financial planning.
• Act as Data Protection Officer for the School.

Requirements:

• A recognised professional Accountancy qualification; ACA, CIMA, ACCA
• Experience of Financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and project management.
• Experience of management and financial accounting principles and techniques.
• Strong management skills with experience of managing and motivating teams of specialists.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and strive for our staff to be from diverse backgrounds. We positively encourage applications from individuals within under-represented groups and welcome applications from individuals regardless of their protected characteristics.

If you have any questions or would like to have an informal conversation about the role please contact [e-mail] who will arrange this for you.

Only fully completed application forms will be accepted.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date should suitable applications come through. This is to ensure our teams can manage application levels while maintaining a positive candidate experience. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced DBS check as well as an overseas criminal records check, if worked or lived outside the UK within the past 10 years. Offers of employment are also subject to satisfactory references, health, and right to work checks.

All Linwood School staff are expected to adhere to our policies and procedures in respect of safeguarding and child protection, including Keeping Children Safe in Education and Guidance for adults working with children and young people in an education setting.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. If the role is exempt, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed, and if they are disclosed, we cannot take them into account.