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Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - part time

Temple Grove Academy, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 3UA

This job expired on 1 July 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP after interviews

• Closing date

  1 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 June 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 1.5 days per week (within school hours)
• Contract type: Fixed term - until 31st August 2024
• Pay scale: KR10 (pro rata)

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Hold an accounting certification or be able to demonstrate the required skills through previous professional experience.
• Have at least 5 years’ experience in a senior finance-related position
• Proven excellent track record relevant to sector.
• Experience and understanding of managing budgets and IT in relation to its effective use.
• Have experience in supporting boards and/or executives.
• Have experience in the education or charity sector.
• The ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally to a range of audiences
  

What the school offers its staff

Transparency: We will treat you with respect, honesty and fairness.

Protecting your privacy: We will ensure your information is secure and handled sensitively.

Understanding: We will ensure your information is secure and handled sensitively.

Showcasing Talent: We will provide a good opportunity for you to share your skills, experience and potential.

Feedback: We will provide constructive feedback professionally and promptly.

Listening: We welcome feedback and we'll act on what you have to share.

Inclusivity: Our hiring decisions align with our commitment to create a high-quality, diverse workforce.

Further details about the role

Job Profile

Main Purpose of the Job:

• The CFO is responsible for the financial development and sustainability of Temple Grove Academy Trust and for the financial probity of the organisation.
• They will be responsible for providing the leadership and management of the trust’s finance and business functions, enabling the trust to work effectively towards its aims.
• They will support the CEO in their role as the trust’s accounting officer.

Duties and responsibilities

Finance:

• Advising on financial policy, including investment, treasury, and credit strategy.
• Budget planning, forecasting and monitoring.
• Oversee financial management and controls, records, and reporting.
• Relationships with auditors, banks, and other outside bodies, including credit control and payment policy.
• To prepare annual accounts for auditing and inspection, liaising with the auditors to obtain sign off and ensure filing of annual company accounts according to ESFA and Companies House guidelines;
• To ensure that monthly audit checks, internal scrutiny and external audit checks are carried out appropriately and in line with the ATH requirements and that processes are robust;
• Identify strategic, operational, compliance and financial risks to the Trust’s and maintain the risk register as appropriate.
• Prepare and with the AO approve monthly payroll and ensure all salaries are paid on time and accurately.
• Process purchase orders and pay invoices.
• Manage sales ledger.
• Prepare and procure monthly management accounts, including budget vs actual, cash flow forecast, balance sheet, KPI’s and pupil number forecasts.
• Ensure compliance with Academy Trust Handbook.
• Manage insurance matters.

Safeguarding:

• Follow all school policies and the staff code of conduct relating to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Professional development:

• Complete all whole-school training deemed necessary including but not limited to Safeguarding, GDPR and Prevent.
• Undertake other training required to develop in the role.
• Take part in the school’s appraisal procedures.

Other

• Attend Finance & Trust Board meetings, team meetings and staff meetings as required.
• Maintain confidentiality inside and outside the workplace.
• Understand and apply all Trust policies.
• Undertake any reasonable additional responsibilities requested at any time by the Headteacher.
• Read and adhere to relevant school policies.
• Please note that this list of duties is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the line manger.
• This job description may be amended at any time in consultation with the postholder.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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Additional documents

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CFO role 2024 (fixed term until 31 August 2024) vr2.pdf - 1.99 MB (opens in new tab)

About Temple Grove Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 197 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Temple Grove Academy website
• Email address: hr@templegroveacademy.com
• Phone number: 01892 520 562
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/temple-grove-academy

Temple Grove Academy is a 1 form entry primary school in Tunbridge Wells which opened in January 2013 and is now part of Skinners' Academies Trust, a group of six schools across Kent and London. The school sits in the heart of the Sherwood Forest area of Tunbridge Wells and serves its local community with pride. The Trust is sponsored by The Skinners’ Company, one of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies of London.

Headteacher: Mrs Rebekah Leeves

Vision, Values and Ethos

Our philosophy at TGA is together we make a difference.

Why do we do what we do?

We are here to enable every child to flourish in every way. We work together as a community to offer a launch pad for the children in our care to dive into life’s adventures, striving for personal success and fulfilment.

We create a safe, welcoming environment that provides inspiring and motivating experiences, and support everyone to develop strategies that enable them to take full advantage of what the world has to offer.

We believe that everyone has the talent and potential to excel in life. We celebrate the uniqueness of every individual, and cherish the diversity of the community we belong to.

We want to make a difference, and strive to be the difference.

How do we achieve this?

We have our Five Ways of Being. These are the values that we have at our core, and enable us to set our promises. They help all of us to make decisions, challenge our thinking and to arrive at the best possible solutions.

Our Five Ways of Being

Aspiring
When we are aspiring, we are looking for the opportunities that the world has to offer us and actively engaging with those opportunities.

- We will do everything we can do to feel successful and fulfilled.

- We will try to be the best version of ourselves, setting goals and challenges to achieve.

- We will pursue the knowledge and skills that will help us to achieve our goals, seeing obstacles that occur as opportunities to grow and learn.

Encouraging
When we are encouraging, we are supporting our friends, family and community to flourish and work together.

- We will be positive in our language and actions, and will encourage other people to set themselves goals and challenges.

- We will champion other people’s successes and talents that can be used as motivation or mentors to those around us.

- We will look out for those in need and try to find ways where we can help them or find someone else that can.

- We will help others to never give up on themselves and to know that there is always someone or something that can be done when the going gets tough.

Enriching
When we are enriching, we are providing opportunities that will lead to success and fulfilment for others.

- We will welcome everyone into our environment with warmth and kindness.

- We will always try to use words and actions that boost confidence and inspire positive action.

- We will ensure that everyone knows that learning is a continuous life long process.

- We will do things that enable people to be healthy in body and mind.

Resilient
When we are resilient, we are overcoming the challenges that life sometimes presents us with.

- We will try to recognise that our mistakes and errors are opportunities to learn and grow.

- We will commit ourselves to learning from our achievements.

- We will seek to find ways to overcome obstacles ourselves, safe in the knowledge that someone will always be there to help.

- We will support others to find the strategies that work for them in the situations they find challenging.

- We will never give up.

Respectful
When we are respectful we are showing kindness, tolerance and acceptance of the words, beliefs and actions of others, and we are acting with inherent goodness.

- We will challenge words and actions that we know will harm others.

- We will accept the decisions of those that we have entrusted to make decisions for us.

- We will be thoughtful and kind in our thoughts, words and actions.

- We will always try to win with humility and lose with dignity, considering the feelings and emotions of other people around us.

- We will try to make other people feel that they have a voice and are valued.

- We will demonstrate how we uphold the Fundamental British Values of tolerance, respect, democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.

Arranging a visit to Temple Grove Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@templegroveacademy.com.

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