Finance Manager
Worthing High School
West Sussex
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 29 March 2017
Job overview
FINANCE MANAGER
SALARY: NJC GRADE 8/9 points 27-34
£23,935 - £29,854 pa
HOURS: Full-time all year round – 37 hours per week
We are seeking an outstanding individual to fill the post of Finance Manager, starting as soon as possible. The postholder be qualified to AAT Level 2. They will play a key role in assisting the Business Development Manager to deliver an outstanding financial service to the school. They will prepare financial reports, including assisting with the year end accounting process and annual budget setting. They will maintain the Academy’s financial processes and systems including control of non-restrictive income and expenditure (School Fund).
The successful candidate will have:
- Knowledge of SIMS, FMS and Wisepay
- Up-to-date knowledge of education funding and an awareness of Academy funding specifically
- A confident personality with a can-do approach
- Confidence in dealing with charity accounting requirements and reporting arrangements
- Good oral and written communication skills with all stakeholders
- Strong problem solving skills
- An ability to respond to challenging circumstances in a positive manner
- A thorough working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and Outlook - supported by achievement of ECDL or similar
- Experience of procurement
- Experience of managing and motivating an effective team.
If you feel you have the necessary skills for this position and would like further information, an application form and job description can be downloaded from the links provided on the school website at www.worthinghigh.net/vacancies or obtained from the school by phoning 01903 237864. Further information about the school and details of how to apply can also be obtained from the school website.
Please note, because of the nature of this job, if you are successful in your application you will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service with barred list check. This will be done by means of applying for a DBS certificate through the Disclosure and Barring Service. Disclosures include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions, spent or unspent. Clearance will be obtained before employment commences.
Worthing High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Application forms should be posted or emailed to Diana Chamberlain, Office Manager at: Worthing High School, South Farm Road, Worthing, BN14 7AR E-mail: vacancies@worthinghigh.net.
Closing date for applications is 30 March 2017
Interviews will be held on 6 April 2017
Tours of the school can be arranged for Wednesday 22 March 2017
Attached documents
About Worthing High School
About us
Choosing the right school for either the first step in your career or as you progress is a vitally important decision. Worthing High School offers a good education experience for our students ensuring they feel happy, valued and secure. At Worthing High School we believe that we can offer all of these things.
Everyone at Worthing High works hard to create a close community of learners in which there is a clear focus upon raising standards of student achievement.
The school is greatly valued by the community it serves and is a popular choice for prospective students and their parents. A marked feature of the school is the happy, friendly, caring ethos which enables our students to settle quickly. We believe that this is vital if students are to achieve their full potential. As a school we have high standards for our students– maximum effort and excellent levels of achievement are expected.
Worthing High thrives on being a community in the true sense of the term as it seeks to achieve a partnership between governors, teachers, parents and students as well as with our wider partners.
Students also gain from an outstanding programme of enrichment activities that are extensive, fulfilling and diverse. The broad, balanced and relevant curriculum provided by the school serves to ensure that opportunities are available to enable pupils to fully develop their interests and talents.
Our website aims to introduce you to our school but there can be no substitute for a personal visit. We would be delighted to show you around during a working day and answer any questions that you may have.
Worthing High School is part of the South Downs Education Trust (SDET).
The Trust’s mission statement of ‘Always Pursuing Excellence’ is fundamental in achieving the high expectations of working together to ensure every child and young person is able to reach their true potential.
The Trust’s shared vision is focused around five core values: to work together and support each other as a community; to continually try to improve and develop resilience; to show integrity with honesty and truthfulness at all times; to show respect in valuing and accepting differences with courtesy and consideration; and to always pursue excellence and strive to surpass our shared expectations.
The Trust aims to contribute positively to a self-improving school-led system that improves process, reduces unnecessary complexity and duplication and spreads high standards so that all the schools within the Trust are ‘Good’ or better both in terms of their Ofsted judgement and in the eyes of its pupils, parents/carers and wider community.
OFSTED Report
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Ofsted&pid=15
Safeguarding Policy Documents
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Safeguarding&pid=55
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