Chief Finance Officer
Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5HXDeadline is tomorrow
Closing date
19 January 2026 at 8am
Date listed
7 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Competitive
Additional allowances
Competitive
Chief Finance Officer job summary
Hockerill Anglo-European College is a high-performing, co-educational state boarding school with an international ethos and a reputation for academic excellence. We offer a unique and vibrant environment where over 900 students, including 40% boarders, benefit from the challenge of the International Baccalaureate curriculum and an outstanding extra-curricular programme.
We are seeking to appoint a Chief Finance Officer (CFO) to play a key role in the strategic leadership of the College. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional to make a significant impact on the future of a distinctive and thriving school.
The Role
As CFO, you will:
- Provide strategic leadership and clear financial advice to the Principal, Governing Board and senior leadership team.
- Lead the financial planning, budgeting and reporting cycle, ensuring accuracy, transparency and compliance with all statutory requirements.
- Manage and develop the Finance Team, embedding robust financial systems, controls and policies.
- Oversee the College’s major income streams — including boarding fees, the General Annual Grant (GAG) and other government education funding — ensuring strong financial management, accurate billing and effective credit control.
- Ensure best value in procurement and oversee the College’s wider financial commitments.
- Identify and secure additional income streams, such as grant funding and external partnerships, to strengthen long-term financial sustainability.
- Act as Company Secretary, ensuring compliance with Companies House, Charity Commission and DfE requirements.
About You
We are looking for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with senior financial management experience, ideally in education, charity, not-for-profit or a similarly regulated environment. You will have:
- Proven ability to provide clear financial insight and advice at Board/Trustee level.
- Strong technical knowledge of statutory reporting, charity accounting and DfE requirements.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information to non-specialists.
- A track record of building positive relationships with stakeholders and leading high-performing teams.
- Experience of managing significant income streams, such as government grants, service fees or charitable funding, with strong financial controls.
- Ambition, integrity and a proactive approach to ensuring financial sustainability.
Why Join Us?
This is a rare opportunity to contribute to the future of a unique state boarding school with a truly international ethos. You will join a committed and dynamic leadership team, with the chance to shape financial strategy and sustainability in support of world-class education.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All post-holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) including barred list check.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Hockerill Anglo-European College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 926 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hockerill Anglo-European College website
We passionately believe that every student deserves the opportunity to be the best they can be and that our school gives them that opportunity. We are a state co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 11 to 18 and offer our students a dynamic, vibrant and exciting learning environment where development of the whole student is our priority. The College offers a rigorous and broad curriculum, and is proud to be one of the largest state schools offering the prestigious International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma programmes. With a twin focus on the two specialisms of Languages and Music, Hockerill offers a truly distinct setting for a world-class education. Located in beautiful grounds on the edge of Bishop’s Stortford the school is in close proximity to London and the South East of England and accepts applications for boarding and day places from students with a current UK passport or the right to residency in the UK.
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Hertfordshire