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Finance Director

Isleworth and Syon School for Boys

Hounslow

  • £47,532 - £50,574 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
PO4 35-38 (Outer London)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 September 2025
Apply by:
19 August 2025

Job overview

JOB TITLE Finance Director
CLOSING DATE: 09:00 – Tuesday 19 August 2025
DATE POSTED: Friday 18 July 2025 SALARY:
PO4 35-38 (Outer London)
£47,532 - £50,574
CONTRACT TYPE: Full Time – 36 hours/week. CONTRACT TERM: Permanent
START DATE: Flexible start date
“Staff are proud of the work they do. Building on the long-standing traditions of the school, staff support the
development of ‘courteous, respectful and calm’ young men, reflecting the school’s well-established values.”
[Ofsted Report]
Our School
Isleworth & Syon School is a great place to work and a place where all staff can develop. Our staff are
energetic, dedicated and absolutely committed to working together to ensure that our boys (and students in our
mixed Sixth Form) remain ambitious and highly successful. We are proud of our long history and have a
commitment to excellence and are a high-performing school.
Our Ethos
Relationships are critical to our success and to our future. We empower all our staff and encourage everyone
to work collegially to achieve the best outcomes possible. Our school is systematically organised and
processes are tightly managed in all areas to allow staff to meet their potential and in order to create excellent
learning and working environments. Across the school, students benefit from our insistence on high standards
and achievement, an exceptional range of extra-curricular activities, and a focus on traditional values. We
expect all staff to contribute to this ethos.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented and motivated Finance Director to join our well-established
Single Academy Trust. We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly capable person to manage the schools’
finances, supporting the school to deliver high-quality education through strong financial integrity. This is a fulltime permanent post, that has arisen due to promotion of the current post-holder. We currently work with
School Business Services who will support the work you will do.
We are seeking ideally a professional with related qualifications (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or experience in an
education finance leadership role, to lead at a strategic and operational level. We welcome dialogue and
applications from individuals who may be working towards the person specification/job description. You will be
a key member of our school, bringing both technical expertise and the personal integrity and drive that enables
you to work effectively. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and open culture, in which all staff can develop
and thrive. You will be accountable to the Co-Headteachers.
We are looking for:
• Relevant and successful experience
• An ability to build excellent working relationships
• Superb financial and administrative skills
• A hard-working, self-motivated, proactive, organised and reliable individual
• Excellent communication skills.
• See the Job Description for further information.
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Our Location
We are situated in a tree-lined neighbourhood of Isleworth, a vibrant area of West London. The school is close
to Osterley Park and a short hop from central London by tube (Osterley is a 10-minute walk) or rail (Isleworth is
a 7-minute walk). There is easy access to the M3, M4 and Heathrow Airport.
Visit Us
We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce. We want to make sure we are
attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated
equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and
ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific
characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including
transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women
and new parents.
You are very welcome to arrange to visit us and to experience why we are such a successful school and a
fantastic place to develop your career.
Please see here for the wide-ranging benefits offered by our school.
Application details
Further recruitment details, including a School Information Pack, a role information document and an application
form are on our website www.isleworthsyon.org under ‘Staff Recruitment’. Please ensure that all sections of the
form are completed.
Isleworth & Syon School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an
Enhanced DBS check, references, and other pre- and post-employment checks, including, where appropriate
police check from other countries. In addition, if shortlisted, we will undertake online searches to ensure the
suitability of applicants who aspire to work in our school. Our Data Protection Policy and our Privacy Notice for
applicants, can also be found on the website.

More about Isleworth & Syon School
Type: Mainstream School Address: Ridgeway Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 5LJ
Phase: Secondary with Sixth Form Telephone: +44 20 8568 5791
Funding status: State – Academy https://www.isleworthsyon.org
Gender: Boys and mixed Sixth Form email: school@islewothsyon.org
Age range: 11-19 years




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About Isleworth and Syon School for Boys

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  • Isleworth and Syon School for Boys
  • Ridgeway Road, Isleworth
  • Middlesex
  • TW7 5LJ
  • United Kingdom

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Thank you for your interest in our school.

Our Ethos

Isleworth & Syon School is a ‘Leading Edge’ school with a history of excellence; a high-performing school with scores well above boys nationally. We empower our teaching staff to work collegially in departments, creating shared resources so that planning time can be spent refining rather than re-inventing lessons. Good practice is shared and all teaching staff contribute ideas to further enhance the curriculum. Our school is systematically organised and pastoral processes are tightly managed to allow staff to build professional relationships with students, thereby creating excellent learning environments. Across the school, students benefit from our insistence on high standards and achievement, an exceptional range of extra-curricular activities and the focus on traditional values. We are looking for colleagues who aspire to be part of a great team of staff and who will enjoy learning about the ‘Isleworth & Syon Way’, our unique strategy of ensuring success for all students.

Our aim is to provide an outstanding education for all of our students, through our focus on teaching and learning. We are a continually improving school with a reputation for blending innovation and tradition and providing an exceptional range of additional opportunities whilst we focus on the academic achievement of our students.

Our Staff

We recognise that our staff are our greatest resource and we are ambitious for our staff and invest heavily in their development. We offer an extensive programme of professional development which offers a range of opportunities for training, including internally, through local and national programmes. We have strong partnerships with universities and higher education institutions and actively support staff pursuing heavily subsidised Masters degrees and other higher qualifications. There will also be opportunities for internal promotion and to collaborate within our local partnership of schools.

Our staff - teaching and support - are thoroughly professional and hard working. We aim to provide a working environment which is both rewarding and suitably challenging for our staff.

About Us

We are a voluntary controlled, non-denominational boys school, with a mixed Sixth Form. We have a long and distinguished history which can be traced back to 1630.   We are situated in a tree-lined neighbourhood of Isleworth, a vibrant area of West London. Close to Osterley Park and a short hop from central London by tube (Osterley is a 10-minute walk) or rail (Isleworth is a 7-minute walk). There is easy access to the M3, M4 and Heathrow Airport. Our proximity to Osterley, Isleworth, Brentford and Chiswick result in a truly comprehensive and richly diverse intake of students, which creates a wonderfully vibrant working environment for our staff.

You are very welcome to arrange to visit us and to experience why we are such a successful school and a fantastic place to develop your career. I hope that you will read on and make an application to the school.

S. Fisher & J. Higginbottom - Co-Headteachers

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