Finance Manager

Teaching vacancies; West Oxfordshire; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution seeks a Finance Manager to join their team. This role involves managing financial operations, offering flexibility in work hours, and is pivotal to ensuring excellent financial management in the school. Candidates should have relevant financial qualifications such as CIMA or ACCA and be ready to support the school effectively.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Opportunities for professional development

Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

Qualifications

• Qualification towards CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or CIPFA, AAT level 4.
• Experience as a finance professional is desired.
• Ability to work both independently and within a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage finance provision for Chipping Norton School.
• Support the School Business Manager.
• Maintain excellent financial management.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Initiative

Relationship building

Flexibility

Education

CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CIPFA, or AAT level 4

Job description

Job details

Job role

• Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship
Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern
Part time, full time

Contract type
Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary
£44,711.00 - £47,754.00 Annually (FTE)*2025 pay award pending. Actual salary will depend on hours worked

Finance Manager job summary

Are you working towards to CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or CIPFA, AAT level 4 and looking for your next role? Are you qualified and looking for a new challenge? Come and join our lovely school!

We are seeking an experienced finance professional to manage the finance provision of Chipping Norton School and to work in our friendly finance team supporting the School Business Manager.

This role is offered flexibly. You can choose to work a pattern that suits your needs for 22.5 hours per week supporting our school or you can work full time (37 hours) and also have the opportunity to support the finance operation across the Trust.

The role is term time (39 weeks) with two weeks working during school closure periods a total of 41 working weeks. You will be paid for 48 weeks per year (7 weeks holiday pay)

A recruitment payment may be available for the right candidate who applies directly to the school

We will offer you:

- the chance to be part of a busy and successful team.

- the opportunity to make a difference to the students' experience in our school.

- opportunities for further development and professional learning.

We hope to find:

- an excellent finance coordinator, able to work on their own initiative.

- a well organised colleague, with excellent attention to detail and the energy to see things through to a high standard.

- a flexible, confident and friendly individual who is able to build strong relationships across the school.

This is a critical and busy post within the school providing essential support ensuring excellent financial management of the school. We will offer you the chance to be part of a strong and developing school community working in a supportive environment.

If you would like to know more, or arrange a visit, please contact Louise Trimmer (School Business Manager) on 01608 649401 or by email to [e-mail]

We are a member of the River Learning Trust, a schools-led trust, based in Oxford. For more information: www.riverlearningtrust.org.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR 'WHY?' is that children and young people 'only get one go' in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible 'go' for our pupils.

OUR 'HOW?' is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our "Working in RLT" guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The River Learning Trust and Chipping Norton School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.