Chief Financial Officer
The Royal School, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0EGThis job expired on 25 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
25 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
11 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time 52 weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Competitive, dependent upon skills and experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Royal School is seeking a highly motivated, experienced and innovative Chief Financial Officer to join this heavily oversubscribed day and boarding free school. Overall Purpose of the Role As a member of the School’s Executive Team, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will have strategic responsibility for all aspects of The Royal School, Wolverhampton Trust (‘the Trust’) finance, asset management, risk management and capital planning and procurement. Delivering operational rigour and strategic direction, the CFO will play an integral role in supporting the development of the Trust and ensure it continues to be financially sustainable. As a member of the Trust’s Leadership Team the CFO will play a key role in shaping the strategy of the Trust and ensuring that strong financial practices and strategy are embedded within all strategic planning. The CFO will lead strategically and operationally to provide excellent financial leadership, guidance and support to the Trust board and school. The CFO will lead, and line manage the Trust’s finance team.
What the school offers its staff
Regular CPD programme and investment in training
Staff laptop
Cycle to work scheme
Opportunities for you and your family to attend boarding activities e.g. parties, Alton Towers, visits to cities and museums
Two additional weeks holiday compared to many schools (one week prior to Christmas, one week early in the summer
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.
About The Royal School, Wolverhampton
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1493 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lcallaway@theroyal.school
Thank you for your interest in the post here at The Royal School,
Wolverhampton (RSW). To help you decide on whether this is the school
for you it is important to understand where we have come from and where
we are going.
The school is built upon a combination of things; it’s unique heritage,
record of academic excellence, outstanding educational environment, and the full support and endorsement of our Patron, the Earl of Wessex.
From this, the Governors and leadership team are committed to supporting wider access for pupils, of all abilities and backgrounds, to add to The Royal’s rich and diverse educational offer.
The Royal School, Wolverhampton offers a unique proposition to families
in Wolverhampton and its surrounding area of an ‘all-through’, 4-19, coeducational, nondenominational day and state boarding school, with the capacity over time to provide for 1500 pupils, through a carefully managed programme of growth.
Whilst remaining fully non-selective and dedicated to supporting pupils in
need, this change process has enabled RSW to combine its traditional
values and academic offer with a global perspective. All this is to benefit
our pupils, and to create a dynamic outward looking, culturally diverse, yet inclusive school community. Within this, pupils acquire the rich subject knowledge, life skills, understanding and aspiration to succeed locally, nationally, and internationally.
We welcome your application to be part of our community and would love
you to visit and see the school in action or call us to talk things through.
Arranging a visit to The Royal School, Wolverhampton
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lcallaway@theroyal.school.
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