School Business and Finance Manager
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
11/02/2020
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 11/03/2020 17:00
Salary:
£33,820 - £42,889
Job Category:
Schools - Support
Employment Location:
Cramlington, Northumberland
Further Information
Cramlington Village Primary School is looking to appoint a Business and Finance manager to join our happy, committed, professional team in Cramlington, South-East Northumberland.
Due to a recent reorganisation in school we are looking for a candidate who would like to be involved in the leadership of our successful school as our business and finance management professional.
What we are looking for:
The ideal candidate will hold a recognised accounting qualification and they will been have used to creating and managing monthly management accounts for around the past three years. They will be confident working with our Sage system that produces accounting information and happy to self train to become familiar if it is new to them. They will be responsible also for responding to the many compliance checks that the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) request from schools. This will include aspects relating to the governance of the school as well as pension declarations, pupil headcount information and statutory returns relating to the governance of the school estate. The Business and Finance Manager will also be responsible for conducting the payroll function for our small staff team of around 30 people using the software system we use which is Payroo.
You will be comfortable and sometimes even excited to be working under pressure! You will be able to communicate well with a wide range of people being able to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, as the role will be dealing with parents, professionals and other visitors to school.
What we can offer:
As a school team we can offer you a happy, aspirational working environment with well managed funding that supports positive educational outcomes for the children. Our recent staff survey states that 100% of our staff team are happy or somewhat happy to come to work every day. This is backed up by excellent staff attendance throughout the school.
We have a well resourced school, with strong systems and the opportunity to influence those systems as we constantly tweak and refine what we have to make it the best it can be. The school is committed first and foremost to our children and this thread runs through it. Our children are enthusiastic, caring and love learning. We self graded behaviour as outstanding recently as part of our self evaluation using Ofsted criteria.
The support staff team is an experienced, happy team who work well together and who have a passion for our school to offer the best it can for the children. This passion is mirrored by all CVPS staff - as we truly all subscribe to ‘empower everyone to achieve’ our school strapline.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment part of which requires clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
If you would like to speak to the principal Debbie Wylie please contact the school on 01670 735177
Applications to be sent to school using a standard application form and no more than 2 sides of A4 with a personal statement explaining why you meet the criteria and why you want to work in our school.
Closing date is Wednesday 11th March 2020 at 5pm
Interviews will be on Friday 13th March 2020
Please note
This job is closed for applications.