Job Description

Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Stevenage plus travel across Hertfordshire (hybrid)
Salary: \xc2\xa345,000 \xe2\x80\x93 \xc2\xa348,000 per annum
Role: Full time - Hybrid working usually comprising 2 days per week in our Head Office in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and 3 days of home working

OVERVIEW

Our client is an award-winning provider of products and services to schools and educational settings within and outside Hertfordshire, who focus on supporting the schools to achieve successful long-term outcomes for the children.

This is a new and exciting role managing a portfolio of schools providing accounting and bookkeeping advice on the school\'s current financial position and future projections. The role will become a key financial partner to the leadership of schools and will deliver accounting services to school leaders.

This is an exciting time to join our client as they are making significant investments into their customer experience, developing new products and solutions that will support their customers.

Key Responsibilities

We are seeking a qualified accountant with experience of working in a commercial or not-for-profit environment who will relish the chance to make a difference in our schools-owned business. You will be a proven team player who would like to work as part of a small finance team.

This Finance Manager role reports directly to the CFO and provides the opportunity to work across the business in a Finance Business Partner capacity. This will get you close to a variety of business units and you will provide financial support to help ensure these business units are set for growth.

You will also be responsible for ensuring that appropriate financial controls are in place across the company, that HMRC submissions are accurate and timely and that the year-end closedown and audit are completed.

Our \'working from anywhere\' approach provides colleagues the opportunity to work flexibly in line with their role requirements, typically spending 2 days a week in our Stevenage office with the remainder remote. As there is a permanent home working element to this role, you will need to ensure you are equipped for home working.

Benefits: a generous employer pension contribution, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 31 days after five-years) or the equivalent paid for Term Time employees, family-friendly policies, hybrid working, paid mileage, a cycle to work scheme, onsite charging points for electric vehicles, access to mental health and wellbeing support, company performance bonus, professional development opportunities, benefit schemes for discounts and cashback offers, and more.

Ideal Candidate

• Proven accounting/bookkeeping experience ideally in the financial management of schools.
• CCAB Qualified Accountant (Essential)
• Accounting standards (Essential).
• The not-for-profit sector (Desirable).
• A strong understanding of commercial principles (Essential).
• Using financial MIS, including an integrated General Ledger system (ideally Oracle NetSuite) (Essential).
• Working in a finance team, with a particular focus on controls (Essential).
• Managing a small team with experience of delegating tasks and of monitoring team activity (Essential).
• Year-end closedown and working with a team of external auditors (Essential).
• Skills developed through working in a not-for-profit or commercial environment.
• Key leadership qualities.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to influence others and to build strong working relationships.
• Ability to prioritise, plan and to overcome challenges.
• Commitment to working flexibly to achieve service and team goals.
• Full clean driving licence and use of car for travel to different locations in Hertfordshire

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Stevenage, Watford, Luton, Biggleswade, St Albans, Sandy

KEY WORDS: Finance Manager, Accountancy, Qualified Accountant, Part Qualified Accountant, Finance Business Partner

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