Job Description

The Finance Manager will ensure to hold the vision, values and goals of the school and provide professional support and guidance to individual staff and groups.

Finance Manager responsibilities:

• Updating the CEO and other members of the School on the effectiveness of the School's accounting practices
• To develop a comprehensive, coherent and accurate account of the School's financial performance to a range of audiences including Trustees/Governors, partners and external bodies when required
• Producing monthly management accounts
• Producing monthly end of year projections
• Producing monthly departmental reports and present to Budget Holders
• Preparing cash flow statements
• Producing annual 3 year and annual budget in line with the School's Strategic Development Plan
• Reviewing and improving the systems surrounding all aspects of the School's budgets, forecasts and business planning
• Reporting the value for money that the School obtains
• Ensuring all appropriate financial policy framework is in place to the guide the financial decision making
• Leading, in close cooperation with Auditors, the year-end audit process and other requirements from the Auditors for the completion of the Financial Statements
• Maintaining contact with bankers, investment managers, pension advisers and auditors
• Keeping abreast of financial developments across the charity and special education sectors
• Maintaining and developing costing models for the School
• Researching, analysing and concluding information
• Carrying out financial administration duties

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The successful candidate will have strong previous experience within a similar role as well as holding a recognised professional accounting qualification. It is essential that you will be educated to degree level or equivalent and will ideally have experience working with Sage 50 accounts and payroll