Chief Financial and Operation Officer
Moulsham Junior School, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9DG12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
18 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale 11
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who
We Are:
We are Moulsham Junior School and believe every child is entitled to a great education.
We work collaboratively with Highwood Primary School, Moulsham Infant School, Writtle Infant School and Writtle Junior School. We are soon to become the H.I.V.E family of schools working together at a MAT.
The Job:
Envision yourself as the strategic force steering our Multi Academy Trust's (MAT) financial matters, working in tandem with the CEO and Board of Trustees to ensure that we have sound analytical data to make the key decisions that best support the positive outcomes for the Trust and all its pupils.
You will lead on financial efficiency and effectiveness, and ensure that every financial commitment and report is delivered with precision and on time.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategy & Change:
You'll work closely with the CEO and the leadership team, bringing to life our plans, plus, you'll be a big part of managing changes across our academies.
Business Planning & Performance:
You're the expert behind our strategic plans and budgets, ensuring our finances are solid and we're always on the right track.
Running the Show:
Risk management is a key part of the role. Collaboration with finance, HR, and legal teams is essential. Additionally, a proactive approach to driving efficiency and keeping abreast of educational trends is crucial.
Financial Oversight & Compliance:
In this role, you'll manage all financial aspects, ensuring full compliance with regulatory standards and providing transparent financial reporting to senior management.
Administration:
With the day-to-day support of a full Administration Team, you will make sure that we are highly effective. Overseeing attendance, recruitment, absence management, admissions and front of house.
Estates:
With an excellent Site Team in place, you will strategically lead the maintenance and development of our school buildings. Whilst ensuring high levels of health and safety compliance.
Governance:
You'll be a key player in our Trustee Board meetings, keeping everyone in the loop and making sure we're ticking all the right boxes, picking out the trends and ensuring these can be challenged to drive effective decision making.
Who We're Looking For
Qualifications:
An appropriate degree or the equivalent such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, MAAT.
Experience:
Your experience in managing finances and leading teams is well-established. A knowledge of the academic system is key.
Skills:
We need a strategic thinker who's good with numbers and more importantly people. If analysing financial data to create strategic and informed decisions and keeping cool under pressure comes naturally to you, then you're our kind of person!
Qualities:
You need to be collaborative and a strong team player, with the ability to lead and motivate others, while also being adaptable to the changing demands of the role.
You're a confident communicator with a knack for multitasking numerous high-level projects at once, with a methodical approach to problem-solving.
Supervision:
Reporting to the CEO, you'll be overseeing the Estates, Administration and Catering Leaders.
What the school offers its staff
Information about the School
Moulsham Junior School and the H.I.V.E Family
Everything that we do at Moulsham Junior School is based around our core values; which are traditionally known as the four S’s namely: Sharing, Supporting, Striving and Succeeding.
We believe that if weshareour time, compassion and smile with all we meet our school will be a patient, kind and happy place to be. By offeringsupportto each other emotionally, socially and with our learning we will develop understanding and tolerance of the diversity within our world. If westriveto challenge our academic capacity, we will be lifelong learners with a growth mind set open to ambition. It is these three values that enablesuccessbe that emotional, spiritual, cognitive, physical or social.
We are a fully inclusive school, supporting a wide range of needs. As a result of our inclusive nature the pupils at our school have an excellent awareness of the variety of physical, emotional and educational needs. The children value this and, consequently, develop a considerate, caring and respectful attitude towards each other.
Over the past five years (with a break during the global pandemic), we have been discussing ways of improving even further and this led to discussions around forming a multi academy trust (MAT). The priority is to enable our school to continue to provide an excellent education for our pupils, whilst maintaining each schools’ ethos and identity. We believe by working together more closely with like-minded partner schools, we can achieve great things and provide an excellent educational experience in which all our pupils can thrive.
Consequently, the governing bodies of four schools have now formed a MAT and over time other schools in the local area have stated an intention to join the new organisation. The formal partnership (MAT) will be built on the strong foundations of our existing organisation and will continue to work closely with the schools not joining the MAT as early adopters. The Trust will be known as the ‘HIVE Family of Schools’ (Highly Inclusive Values-led Education) however, the member schools will each retain their current names. Because our schools are already successful in their own right, they would retain much of their independence whilst benefiting from being part of the MAT. There will, however, be the opportunity to further improve outcomes by developing and enhancing the curriculum we offer, sharing best practice and making significant financial savings. The schools will also be able to support and challenge each another in a much more meaningful way.
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.
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About Moulsham Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 715 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Moulsham Junior School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@moulsham-jun.essex.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01245352098
Arranging a visit to Moulsham Junior School
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