Head of Finance
Remote
Job Description
- The reporting, analysis of and commentary on the Federation’s financial performance, both in Finance reports and documents and for inclusion in Consolidated accounts and at Governing Body meetings
- Building strong, proactive relationships with all key stakeholders, acting as Key Relationship Manager for all financial provisions with Academies, working closely with the Federation’s Secondary and Primary Directors
- Leading and coordinating budgeting, planning and forecasting as well as contributing to target setting
- Proactively identifying areas of under or over performance within the Federation’s Academies, seeking to understand the drivers for these and making recommendations
- Providing senior level commercial finance support to any of the Federation’ Academies as requested by the DFOD
- Proactively seeking out income opportunities that will play a key role in assisting the Federation and Academies to maximize funding
- Membership of the Finance Leadership team, with the ability to participate in the management and leadership of the wider Finance team
- Leadership, performance management and development of a team of four Commercial Finance Managers, all with extensive post qualification experience
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- An accountancy qualification (such as ACA, CIMA, ACCA or international equivalent)
- A commercial finance background, with the ability to demonstrate the creation of a results driven environment
- Experience of managing a team of qualified professionals
- Experience and ability in building strong working relationships and influencing at all levels, highly adept at stakeholder management
- The ability to influence key business strategies and initiatives, taking a strategic view of the business and impact on finance to improve and deliver a proactive service
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills, with an ability to write financial and commercial commentaries based upon sound financial analysis under demanding deadlines
- The ability to build credibility and confidence of key stakeholders so they view finance as a key business partner
- A highly organized approach, with the ability to priorities and redistribute work across the team as needed
- Willingness and ability to engage at a variety of levels from the strategic to dealing with operational issues and queries as needed, from high level analysis to more detailed work
Reference no: 108733