Finance Manager
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
Maidstone, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Kent Range 8 £124,473-£28,047 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- March/April 2018
- Apply by:
- 19 February 2018
Job overview
Finance Manager
Required from March/April 2018
Full Time 37 hours per week – all year round
Kent Scheme Salaries Range 8: £24,473-£28,047 per annum
We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and innovative colleague to lead our team of committed office professionals. The successful candidate will have the ability to communicate and liaise effectively to/with a variety of stakeholders, capacity for hard work and high expectations of self and others along with an ability to work under pressure and to balance potentially conflicting demands.
It is essential that the post holder has experience of budget setting and monitoring, accounting techniques and production of reports and strong ICT skills, including finance software and the ability to analyse accounts. A knowledge of FMS, BPS and Google Apps is desirable.
Summary of Job:
- Overall responsibility for the smooth running of the finance office and ensuring that the financial processes and procedures of the school comply with the requirements of meeting the Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS).
- Line manage the finance office staff, including appraisal and the delegation of tasks to appropriate members of staff.
Applicants will show a commitment to support the ethos of the school and an ability to implement its policies, including Safeguarding, Child Protection, Equal Opportunities and Health and Safety. Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is a very successful selective girls’ school of over 1200 students with a mixed sixth form of approximately 320. The post offers the opportunity to work with intellectually able young people in a supportive and friendly environment. Staff benefits include strong support for professional development, generous holiday entitlement, as well as healthcare scheme.
“Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is an outstanding school” (Ofsted)
Full details and an application pack are available from the school’s website www.mggs.org Applicants should complete the KCC application form and email, along with covering letter, to the Headteacher’s PA. If you require any additional information please contact Ms Starns, PA to the Headteacher via email: mstarns@mggs.org
Applications welcomed immediately
Closing Date: noon on Monday, 19th February 2018
Interviews: Wednesday, 21st February 2018
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.
About Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
At Maidstone Grammar School for Girls we place a very high value on creating a caring community in which everyone feels confident and valued. This is a priority for us as we know that students flourish and succeed when they feel happy and secure. Relationships between staff and students are based on trust and mutual respect, and students show respect for each other and for the process of learning.
Academic excellence is very important to us too. We want everyone to feel engaged and excited by learning and to experience the pleasure of achieving personal goals. Our students are keen to learn and we are able to respond positively to differing needs and strengths with the right balance of support and challenge. Our specialist science status, Thinking Schools and Investors in Careers awards indicate the breadth of expertise across the curriculum.
We also value the development of creativity, responsibility, physical and personal skills. Students are encouraged to participate in the full MGGS experience, with its strong emphasis on community and charity work, dramatic, musical and sports events. When they leave the school, students are mature and well-qualified young people with the confidence to benefit from the opportunities ahead of them and to make a positive contribution to the wider world.
We are proud of the school’s long and distinguished history in Maidstone, and are committed to preparing our students for the technologies, work patterns and necessary skills required to meet the demands of the twenty-first century. Every student who attends the school has talents: our job is to find these, and foster them and develop in everyone a love of learning for its own sake and a pride in striving for and achieving excellence.
As an employer we offer the opportunity to work with high ability students in a supportive, friendly and forward-thinking environment and support for professional development is strong. Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is a very successful selective girls’ school of 1,229 students with a mixed sixth form of 381.
“Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is an outstanding school”
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