Head Of Operational Finance

Ivy Rock Partners is thrilled to be working with the incredible Sevenoaks School in recruiting a newly created Head of Operational Finance role.

Founded in 1432, Sevenoaks enjoys a global reputation as a centre of academic excellence and a flagship school for the International Baccalaureate. A co-educational day and boarding school, it offers a stimulating, intellectually demanding and balanced education for over 1100 students from ages 11 to 18. Sevenoaks is one of the world’s leading IB schools, having taught the International Baccalaureate for over 40 years. For nearly 20 years, all Sixth Form students have taken the full IB Diploma with consistently outstanding academic results which are testament to the school’s experience and commitment to the programme.

The Finance Team is led by the Director of Finance, who is supported by a team of accountants, finance and payroll professionals who manage the financial operations of the School and its trading subsidiary Sennocke Services, and also provide financial management support to the School’s sister charity.

The primary purpose of the role is to drive effective, efficient finance operations that meet organisational needs and uphold financial controls. The Finance Operations Manager will report to the Director of Finance, manage the Finance Operations Team, and play a key role in delivering high quality, timely service provision to a range of internal and external stakeholders. An early focus will be assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and workload allocation, identifying opportunities to streamline, and developing a team culture of excellent service delivery and continuous improvement. In addition, the Finance Operations Manager will play a leading role in updating finance software and driving a move towards cashless, paperless operations and improved financial information.

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum excluding bank holidays

• School lunch

• Free parking

• Membership of the school’s defined contribution pension scheme is available

• Cycle to work scheme

• Membership of the school’s fitness centre

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Free or reduced price tickets to events in The Space, our Performing Arts Centre

• Sevenoaks School Savers voluntary benefit scheme

• Fee remission policy (terms apply)

The basic hours are Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week, all year round, although flexibility in these working hours will be required to meet the demands of the role during peak times.