AddressDBS Check Required: Yes
Qualifications Required: See applicant pack
Start Date (Subject to pre employment checks): April 2024/Immediate start available
Salary: £65,010 - £71,729. Our salaries are Competitive, negotiable depending on experience + LGPS pension
Burnage Academy for Boys is seeking to appoint a tenacious, professional and invested Director of Finance and Operations to lead key areas of the school business and join our cohesive staff team.
This role has both a strategic and an operational element to it, in that you will be establishing systems and ensuring compliance whilst also undertaking key hands on tasks within school, within your areas of responsibility, such as producing budgets, management accounts, reports for the leadership team, governor reports and statutory returns.
The role will need a pragmatic individual who, through their work, really wants to make a difference to the opportunities we can provide the students in our care, ensuring they will be the best they can be.
You will need significant senior financial management and strategic leadership skills, along with experience of building and empowering strong and agile teams enabling a positive and collaborative culture within our Trust.
The Director of Finance and Operations will be a member of the Extended School Leadership Team, with a key role in the long-term strategic development and planning for the Trust. You will work closely with the Headteacher and have responsibility for all financial and operational matters affecting the academy.
As an integral part of the Extended School Leadership Team at Burnage Academy for Boys, you will:
- Lead on strategic, financial and operational issues of all aspects of the academy
- Ensure that the financial and operational systems are compliant through effective policies and internal controls
- Manage the governance framework of the Trust, providing professional support and development, through high expectations for all stake holders
- Provide the SLT with up to date advice on statutory requirements and accountability frameworks
- Produce professionally researched policies, plans and reports
- Monitor business and financial performance against expectations, using external benchmarks to provide systematic quality assurance, self-evaluation, and planning.
To find out more about the role of Director of Finance and Operations, please visit https://joinburnage.co.uk/
To arrange an informal, confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Liz Hayden at Satis Education on 07706333575 or [email protected]
