Business Manager (Finance)
La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School, London, SW12 0AB12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 July 2025
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 35hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- PO6 (£54,684 to £57,626)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Person specification
1. Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to A level standard with good literacy and numeracy skills
Desirable
- Educated to degree level
- Possession of a school business management qualification e.g. Level 4 DBSM
- Having met or be willing to meet the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) School Business Professional Standards
2. Experience
Essential
- The ability to use Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint
- Experience of taking producing minutes in a professional capacity
Desirable
- Understanding of the education sector and the needs of post-16 students
3. Knowledge, Ability and Organisational skills
Essential
- Ability to work strategically and to develop proposals for improving services effectively
- Ability to be proactive, prioritise work and manage time effectively
- Ability to respond well to a changing environment
4. Communication
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of different audiences at all levels, both orally and in writing, including the ability to promote the school
- Ability to write reports, letters, emails and produce accurate correspondence and identify errors
- Ability to produce and understand statistics and collate these in reports for distribution
- Ability to use initiative to deal with telephone calls and staff queries in a professional manner
- Ability to influence people
- Ability to promote a professional standard that sets a good example to students
5. General
Essential
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to work independently
- To have strong interpersonal skills
- The ability to demonstrate personal integrity
- A Flexibility in the approach to work and the demands of the post
- A willingness to undertake professional development
- A commitment to safeguarding in a school context and a comprehensive understanding of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE)
- An understanding and commitment to effective Data Protection Practices
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- A commitment to the Catholic ethos of the school
What the school offers its staff
Rewarding you
- Inner London weighting
- Dedicated wellbeing programme
- Healthcare scheme
- Two-week October half-term holiday
- Cycle-to-Work scheme
- Long service awards
Investing in you
- Endless opportunities for CPD
- Dedicated weekly mentor hour for ECTs and PGCE students
- Cross-curricular working parties to develop teaching and learning and share best practice
- Detailed induction programme for new staff
Commitment to safeguarding
https://www.laretraite.co.uk/Information/Safeguarding/
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to applyIf you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.
About La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1195 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School website
- Email address
- ssilva@laretraite.co.uk
https://www.laretraite.co.uk/Welcome/
Arranging a visit to La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ssilva@laretraite.co.uk.
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