Finance Manager
St Bees School
St Bees, Cumbria
- £30,000 - £35,000 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Annual holiday of 25 days, Pension contribution
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 3 October 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter
- Apply by:
- 3 October 2022
Job overview
THE ROLE
The role reports to the Finance Director (FD) and will liaise with an external accountant. The role line manages the Payroll and Finance Administrator.
As St Bees is in the early years of its development phase, systems are being developed and staff structures evolved, requiring the maintenance of current processes while developing new ones for a larger school.
This requires the post holder to be both hands-on in managing day to day requirements, preparing short term reports for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the accountant and reacting to events as necessary, along with developing the financial reporting on Sage and Engage (school MIS system).
Primary responsibilities
- Day to day management of the finance function including financial records, cash resources, payroll, VAT etc.
- Oversight of the input and management of base data onto the Sage financial modules
- Oversight and vetting of payroll data, processing, and tax/pension payments
- Day to day management of cash resources, including bank reconciliations and short-term cash planning
- Management of the data integrity of financial records, including liaison with auditors, statutory bodies, etc.
- Provision of key reports and data to the FD to facilitate monthly review by the SLT
- Provision of the finance report for Board Meetings. This will include TB and variance reports
- Compilation and management of the annual budget
- Management and authorisation of the purchase process through to payment authorisation
- All contract renewals
- Running of the Sage year-end and assisting the accountant with internal audits
Other responsibilities
- Liaison with teaching staff to provide resources as required
- Liaison with budget holders to enable them to manage their areas of budget responsibility
- Supporting the Headmaster, FD and leadership team with ad hoc information requests and data to support decision making within the school
- Any other routine financial enquiries and support as required
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Experience in a similar role
- Experience of managing a small, committed team
- Experience of managing a small finance operation, ideally within a school environment
- Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation and regulation, including those specific to an educational setting
- Ideally qualified to AAT or similar
Attached documents
About St Bees School
- St Bees School
- Wood Lane, St. Bees
- Cumbria
- CA27 0DS
- United Kingdom
At St Bees School, we are constantly striving to identify the needs of tomorrow’s world, and prepare our students, from ages 11-18, to meet these challenges with confidence. What skills and competencies will our students require for the world of 2032? Most of the jobs they will be doing have not yet been invented. At St Bees, we give them the skills to not only achieve, but to excel.
St Bees is “where West meets East”. China is a rising star in the economic firmament and an enterprise super-power. Our twin-campus approach between St Bees UK and St Bees China aims to develop a free-flow of students between the two campuses, united through their shared curriculum. All of our UK students learn Mandarin Chinese as a first foreign language and their bilingual competence will place them head and shoulders above other students in their future university applications and job interviews. We recognise that China’s advanced approach to the teaching of mathematics makes them world leaders in this regard, and in partnership with Durham University’s School of Education – No1 in the UK – we offer a ‘fusion’ maths curriculum which expresses every St Bees student’s competence in this subject.
Here at St Bees we recognise that character is key and this means that our students develop academic attainment in tandem with character attributes. St Bees students will develop into confident, caring, creative, independent young people. They will harness a global mind-set and they will walk away with competencies necessary to seize the opportunities that the future holds.
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