Finance Manager
Holmewood House School
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Early April 2025
- Apply by:
- 21 February 2025
Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Manager to join a wonderful independent preparatory school. We offer a supportive, nurturing work environment enabling staff to give their best every day. We are seeking a skilled and motivated qualified finance professional to join the team who will bring professionalism, energy and a strong willingness to contribute to the vision of the School.
This is a full time (40 hours per week) all-year-round role.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our successful Bursary team and work alongside enthusiastic and dynamic colleagues. The ideal candidate will be a qualified finance professional, who will have strong technical and commercial capabilities but also soft skills such as excellent communication, and a natural enthusiasm and flexibility to engage across a broad variety of activities.
The Finance Manager reports to the Bursar and is responsible for the effective execution and reporting of all the financial activities of the School. The Finance Manager is also responsible for the supervision and development of a Bursary Administrator (HR & Finance) and a Purchase Ledger Supervisor.
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 include the Purchase Ledger Supervisor and the Bursary Administrator, in partnership with the HR Manager.
Further detail regarding the role responsibilities can be found in the attached role description.
Commitment to safeguarding
Holmewood House is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and all staff, volunteers and other third parties are expected to share this commitment. The school adopts a rigorous safer recruitment process which is adhered to in the appointment of all new members of staff. As part of the safer recruitment process, all applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including, but not limited to, checks with past employers and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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About Holmewood House School
- Holmewood House School
- Barrow Lane, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells
- Kent
- TN3 0EB
- United Kingdom
Holmewood House is a prestigious independent Prep School of 450+ pupils aged 3-13 years, set amidst 32 acres of the most beautiful Kent countryside, just outside Tunbridge Wells. The School is a happy and supportive working environment, where we pride ourselves on the exceptional provision for our pupils and staff in all areas.
Holmewood House provides a broad, well-balanced curriculum with outstanding teachers in what is very much a family school where the positive relationships between the teachers and children allows staff to get to know and understand the individual needs of each and every child. They foster their talents and nurture their growth through a challenging and exciting curriculum.
The school wholeheartedly believes that emotional and social well-being, self-esteem, happiness and confidence are of prime importance and are in themselves inextricably linked to academic progress. Staff are excited by the curiosity and thirst for learning that each child, regardless of their ability, naturally displays. They work hard to allow each child to ask why, to query and to have the time to develop their thoughts into fresh discoveries and innovations and, in doing so, overcome the challenges faced. The end result is the celebration of learning – a reward in its own right!
The wonderful environment and outstanding facilities provide a strong framework upon which the ethos of ‘allowing children to be children’ can be achieved. Childhood is full of exciting new experiences which, parents and teachers relive, through the eyes and laughter of the children.
The relationship between home and school is of fundamental importance in ensuring every child is surrounded by the love, care and guidance which they require as they make their way through their educational journey. In short, the partnership allows the children to enjoy the most important journey of all: childhood.
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