Finance Manager (Trust Wide)

Our School

Mulberry School for Girls is an 11-18 comprehensive community school with 1,600 students on roll, close to Whitechapel and Shadwell in the London borough of Tower Hamlets.  A successful and popular school in the local area, Mulberry’s accolades include Leading Edge, Training School, Arts School, International School and Healthy Schools’ status. The school is fully inclusive in all year groups, including the Sixth Form, and in July 2013 Ofsted graded the school ‘Outstanding’.

Our Community

We are committed to supporting young people to overcome the barriers that poverty and social exclusion create, ensuring that all students are able to achieve their full potential. This has inspired us to build up a broad network of partnerships, incubating and invigorating student experience, opportunity, drive and success. 

There should be no barriers to a child’s future and society should, and can, be a level playing field. Aspiring for this to be reality we promise to:   

• Emphasise high quality subject teaching, reinforced by excellent support for learning and intervention.  
• Deliver inclusion services that assist personal development.  
• Provide excellent pastoral care so no student goes unsupported.  
• Continually develop strong leadership and have high levels of expertise in education

Our partners

We want our students to have access to the same professional connections which young people from more privileged backgrounds can utilise. To make this a reality we have a wide range external partners in higher education, business, industry, the arts and the sciences who contribute extensively and fundamentally to our extra-curricular activities.

• Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• Barts Health NHS Trust

• British Film Institute

• London Stock Exchange Group

• Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd

• National Theatre

• The Prince’s Trust

• Southbank Centre

• WOW Foundation

• University of Cambridge

Bringing Down Barriers to Success

Mulberry Schools Trust are dedicated to equality and valuing diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage people from a wide variety of backgrounds, experience and skills to join us and influence and develop our working practice.

We particularly encourage applications from Black and global majority people, and candidates who are disabled. All candidates who are disabled and who demonstrate that they meet the shortlisting criteria will be invited for an interview, in line with the Equality Act 2010.

We are proud to inspire our students through a diverse and representative teams and welcome applications from all of the communities we serve. 

If you have the experience and passion to energise Tower Hamlet’s next generation of leaders, creators and innovators, then we want to see how we can support you in that pursuit.

Encouraging a happy and healthy work environment

We take staff wellbeing seriously at Mulberry Schools Trust, here are just some of the great benefits for all staff.

• Local Government Pension scheme

• Employee assistance programme and support

• Free breakfast 

• Free gym onsite 

• Paid sabbatical opportunities

• Free onsite parking

• Subsidised staff restaurant with outdoor roof terrace

• Annual programme of conferences and Trust wide events with high profile speakers

• Cycle to work scheme

• Annual service award

• Long service awards 

About the role

We seek a Finance Manager committed to providing and leading high standards within the Finance team. To be accountable to the Financial Controller and to have overall responsibility for the management of Trust wide finance, currently Mulberry School for Girls and Mulberry University Technology College. With the ability to communicate to staff and other stakeholders effectively and professionally. A passion and desire to improve standards is also essential.

The main areas of responsibility will be financial management of Mulberry School for Girls and Mulberry UTC. We are looking for a talented, experienced and enthusiastic professional to play a key role in the financial management of the schools and to be an active member of the school’s back office support team. The ideal candidate will be someone who has:

• Significant finance experience, ideally working in an educational context but not essential
• A relevant accounting qualification or working towards a qualification
• A high level of drive and motivation
• Excellent attention to detail and able to work with a high level of accuracy
• Experience of using Sage 200 for Education or other similar school finance package is essential.

The ethos at Mulberry is a key strength of the school and we are seeking to recruit a passionate and creative person who will be instrumental in making our ambitious vision a reality.

How to Apply

You will need to complete the application form on TES which includes your letter of application in the body of the form explaining why you are the perfect person for this rare and exciting opportunity. Please be aware that we can’t accept any CV’s for this post. 

Please complete your application directly online via TES. If you have any questions about the role or the process, please get in touch with us at hr@mulberryschoolforgirls.org. 

We welcome applicants to inform us if you need any particular adjustments, arrangements or access needs as part of the recruitment process. We are also able to provide a large font print job pack, BSL interpreters, and can arrange for audio versions of our job pack on request. We will also accommodate alternative application methods should they be requested.

Closing date: 4pm, Friday 16th February 2024

Start Date: ASAP

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will require a satisfactory Enhanced DBS clearance and will be a condition of your employment with us. Candidates who are selected for interview will be informed following the shortlisting process and full details of the interview will be provided in advance. We will seek references on all shortlisted candidates and may approach previous employers for information to verify experience or qualifications before interview. Any relevant issues arising from references will be taken up at interview.

We welcome your application.