Job start date: 2 December 2024
Hours per week: 36.5 term time only
Queensbridge School
Queensbridge Road
Birmingham
B13 8QB
Telephone number: 0121 464 5566
Contact email: recruitment@queensbridge.bham.sch.uk
Contract type: Permanent
Queensbridge School is looking to recruit a Finance Manager with a professional qualification in finance, or a related field. You will manage the school’s financial operations effectively, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and best practices. You will prepare and monitor the school budgets and forecasts. The successful candidate will work with the School Business Manager on the strategic planning of the school finances to ensure that the school maximises the resources available and secures value for money for resourcing, goods, and services it procures. You will also lead on regulatory and financial compliance as well as ensuring tight budgetary controls and reporting are met.
About You:
* Experience in a finance role including budget preparation
* Enthusiastic with the ability to motivate others
* Ability to build strong working relationships
* Strong verbal and written communication skills
* Organisational skills
* Proactive and solutions focused
* Commitment to education and ensuring equal opportunities
About the Role:
* Work with and support the School Business Manager
* Monitor school budgets and forecasts, assist the SBM with budget preparation
* Day-to-day running of the finance function including managing the Finance Assistant
* Oversee school lettings
* Work with the site team to manage the financial aspects of contracts and projects
* Ensure compliance with finance procedures and regulations
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
How to apply:
Should you require an application pack, then please visit our website.
Shortlisting and Interviews: Week commencing 4 November 2024.
Informal visits to our school welcome.
Potential applicants should ensure that they read our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and our Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy. These policies can be found at Stronger Together | Vacancies.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all shortlisted candidates.
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013, and 2020. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
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