Finance Manager
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- FTE £36,770 to £38,643 plus FTE £1,081 fringe allowance per annum. Actual salary for 41 weeks per year: £34,179 to £35,870 per annum inclusive of fringe allowance (depending on experience).
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 26 April 2021
Job overview
The Role
Woking College is seeking a dynamic and pro-active individual to lead the finance team. The successful applicant will work closely with the Finance Director and will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the workload of two Finance Administrators and a Junior Finance Assistant.
The Financial Manager will be a talented, professional and experienced individual, capable of managing a diverse list of tasks as well as assuming a hands-on role in this collegiate team, whose aim is the ongoing enhancement of the College finance systems and processes in order to support the teachers and students. This role involves liaising with departments across the College, supporting them in managing their budgets and financial planning.
The Department
The friendly and welcoming finance department are based in an open plan office consisting of two Finance Administrators, a Junior Finance Assistant and a Payroll Administrator. All staff are part-time and term time only. The team and work environment are positive and, for this reason, staff tend to stay with us for a long time. The Finance Director has been with the College for two academic years. Strong team work is essential and appropriate regular meetings are held between team members at which tasks are delegated as appropriate.
The College uses Sage for Education and has recently adopted the ESFA Chart of Accounts for reporting purposes. Management accounts, budgeting and statutory accounts are currently produced using Excel, but it is the intention to use reporting tool functionality in Sage for Education to accomplish these tasks in the future. Payroll is outsourced to Surrey County Council and cleaning and catering are also outsourced. The MIS system used for funding claims is REMS from Civica.
Application Information:
Hours: 37 hours per week, term-time only plus two additional weeks (41 weeks per year)
Salary: FTE £36,770 to £38,643 plus FTE £1,081 fringe allowance per annum (SP28 – SP30 on the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association support staff pay scale, depending on experience)
Actual salary for 41 weeks per year: £34,179 to £35,870 per annum inclusive of fringe allowance (depending on experience).
Closing Date: 9am, Monday 26 April 2021
Interviews: to be held on Tuesday 4 May 2021
Start date: as soon as possible
To Apply: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form
CVs will not be accepted on their own.
For further information or to return a completed Application Form, please contact:
Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: email: kcr@woking.ac.uk Woking College, Rydens Way, Woking, GU22 9DL. Website: www.woking.ac.uk
Important information:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointed staff will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.
The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2020 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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