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Finance Manager

Bromley High School

Bromley

  • Expired
Salary:
Competitive salary plus benefits
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
3 October 2025

Job overview

From October 2025

An outstanding opportunity for an experienced finance professional to combine strategic influence with operational responsibility at a leading independent girls’ school.

About the role

At Bromley High School, part of the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST), we are seeking an accomplished Finance Manager to lead the school’s financial planning, budget management and accounting operations.

Reporting to the Director of Finance and Operations, you will ensure the smooth and effective running of the school’s financial systems. From preparing and monitoring budgets to guiding colleagues on departmental spending, you will provide clear financial insight that informs strategic decision-making. You will also oversee our Enterprise activities, managing lettings and events that generate vital additional income for the school. This is a role that combines technical expertise with collaboration, working closely with academic and support staff as well as external partners.

About You

We are seeking a qualified finance professional (AAT, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with proven experience in accounting and budget management. You will bring confidence with financial systems and advanced Excel skills, alongside the ability to analyse and communicate complex information clearly. Calm under pressure, highly organised and an excellent communicator, you will enjoy working with colleagues across the school and leading a small team to deliver outstanding results.

About Bromley High School

Bromley High School is situated in the leafy suburb of Bickley, South East London, with excellent facilities and convenient transport links. We are an exceptional school and a rewarding place to work, offering superb career opportunities and generous benefits.

As part of the GDST, the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:

• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• Free school lunches during term time
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
• Access to school multi-gym, swimming pool, yoga classes

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

Applications must be received by 12 noon on Friday 3rd October 2025.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 9th October 2025.

The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post
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About Bromley High School

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  • Bromley High School
  • Blackbrook Lane, Bromley
  • Kent
  • BR1 2TW
  • United Kingdom

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Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to bright and talented girls since 1883.

A leading GDST and HMC girls’ school with superb facilities spread across a leafy 25-acre site, Bromley High School educates approximately 870 girls from pre-prep to Sixth Form.

The school’s academic results are consistently excellent earning a rare ‘Exceptional’ rating for Learning and Achievement from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate. Achievement at A-level in 2022 was 34% A*s, 68% A*-A and 91% A*-B.

Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in music, drama, art, sport, Duke of Edinburgh and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.

As the first all girls’ All-Steinway School in the world, the school continually invests in the music department, and offers its own Musician in Residence and specialist music wing.  In 2020, the school launched a Steinway Scholarship and Mentoring Scheme offer the winning recipient coaching sessions throughout the year, a masterclass from a Steinway artist at Steinway Hall, private lessons with a Steinway artist and a solo recital at Steinway Hall. In 2021, the school’s first ever Steinway Scholar won a place to read Music at Oxford.

Sport is also exceptional: with 25 acres of top class facilities including a beautiful pool, new fitness suite, sports hall, gym, track and floodlit courts and pitches, providing the perfect environment in which to develop girls’ love of sport. Bromley High School has achieved huge successes in sport at regional and national level. The school’s under 16 team reached the National Hockey finals and were placed 3rd in the country and in 2021, Year 12 pupil Evie Davis won two gold medals with Team GB at the European Swimming Championships.

Pastoral Care is of paramount importance at Bromley High and the school offers an outstanding supportive and caring pastoral system.  In 2021, the excellence of the school’s pastoral care was recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools.

Bromley High School provides a beautiful and vibrant environment where bright girls flourish.

The Girls’ Day School Trust

The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools).

Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).

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