Finance Manager

Blackfen School for Girls; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Automatic Incremental Progression

28 days Annual Leave (rising to 31) +

Bank holiday entitlement

Christmas Concessionary Day

Employee Assistance Programme

Effective CPD opportunities

Opportunities for flexible working

Job summary

Blackfen School for Girls invites applications for a School Finance Manager to lead the finance team and safeguard the school's financial health. This role focuses on strategic financial leadership, robust controls, and delivering clear financial information to senior staff.

You will translate the financial plan into operational delivery, support decision-making with accurate reporting, and contribute to safeguarding and staff development within a collaborative school environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant required.
• Member of a relevant professional accountancy body.
• Hold the CIPFA Level 7 qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the school finance team and ensure financial health and sustainability.
• Provide strong financial leadership and controls.
• Translate financial strategy into operational delivery.
• Communicate complex financial information to senior colleagues.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Professional body membership

Education

CIPFA Level 7 qualification

Job description

13 days remaining to apply

As soon as possible

1 October 2026

Job role

• Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

What skills and experience we're looking for

A qualified accountant

A member of a relevant professional accountancy body

Hold the CIPFA Level 7 qualification.

What the school offers its staff

• Automatic Incremental Progression
• 28 days Annual Leave (rising to 31after 5 years’ service) plus bank holiday entitlement
• Christmas Concessionary Day
• EmployeeAssistance Programme
• Effective CPD opportunities
• Opportunities for flexible working

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Our Governorswish to appoint a School Finance Manager, we are seeking somebody to lead ourfinance team and ensure the financial health and sustainability of our School.You will provide strong financial leadership, ensure effective financialmanagement and controls, and help translate our financial strategy intomeaningful operational delivery.

We are lookingfor a confident and collaborative finance professional who can combinetechnical expertise with leadership, strategic thinking and a genuine appetitefor improvement. You will be comfortable working with senior colleagues,challenging constructively, managing competing priorities and communicatingcomplex financial information clearly to a range of audiences.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Blackfen school is an 11-18 non-selective school in the London Borough of Bexley. The school has 1350 students and around 330 of those are in our thriving mixed sixth form. Our school motto is “raising aspirations – releasing potential” which continues to be a key focus for the school.

To us “raising aspirations – releasing potential” is not just about results. We aim to develop our young people as citizens who readily take on responsibility. As a school we know that we have a key role to play in this. We want our young people to develop confidence and self- esteem through a variety of opportunities available to them.