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Finance Manager

Somerhill

Kent

  • Expired
Salary:
Competitive, dependent on experience and qualifications
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 December 2025
Apply by:
30 November 2025

Job overview

The Finance Manager reports to the Bursar and is responsible for the day-to-day management and running of the school’s finance function. Specific responsibilities include financial planning and budgets, termly reporting on actual results vs budget, forecast updates, supporting strategic and commercial decisions with financial analysis, fee billing, advising on bursary and scholarship awards, credit control, salaries and pensions, purchasing, banking and cash flow. The preparation of management accounts and liaison with the school’s auditors in producing the annual statutory accounts are other significant responsibilities. Direct reports are two Finance Officers.

We are looking for a dynamic and proactive candidate to lead this busy finance department and a team of two staff members. The ideal candidate will be a qualified finance professional who has strong technical and commercial capabilities as well as soft skills including excellent communication and willingness to manage stakeholders across all functions of the school. This role is a permanent contract, starting ideally in November 2025 for a handover. This is an all-year round role.

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About Somerhill

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  • Somerhill
  • Somerhill, Tonbridge
  • Kent
  • TN11 0NJ
  • United Kingdom
+44 1732 352 124

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We are delighted that you are interested in Somerhill.

We have a very special school here with a unique offering: the ‘best of both worlds’, the ‘ideal mix’, and the ‘place I always dreamt of finding’ are the comments we often hear from parents or visitors. With co-educational learning from 2 - 7 years, Somerhill then offers single-sex classroom lessons until children leave us for senior schools, allowing uninhibited learning and bespoke strategies for the older girls and boys with all the benefits of a co-educational setting.

Our philosophy for the children at Somerhill is straightforward: happy children want to learn. Children are happy if they can play, participate widely and start to master skills of whatever kind, and our stunning setting and outstanding facilities offer endless opportunities for children to find something that makes them smile.

We have very bright and capable pupils and send more pupils to grammar schools each year than any other local school.

Destinations include The Judd School, The Skinners’ School and Tonbridge Grammar School. Some pupils are awarded scholarships at independent schools such as Tonbridge School, Sevenoaks School, Walthamstow Hall School and Sutton Valence School at 11+/13+.

We also cater to children who find aspects of their learning more challenging and currently approximately 40 pupils receive additional support.

You will see that this really is some school, an exceptional learning environment where we grow amazing people!

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