Deputy Operations Manager - Business & Finance
Watling Academy, Milton Keynes, MK8 1EP7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 March 2025
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
- £40,476.00 Annually (Actual)
Deputy Operations Manager - Business & Finance job summary
DEPUTY OPERATIONS MANAGER – BUSINESS & FINANCE
Commencing – April 2025
37 hours per week
All Year Round
Salary – £40,476 p.a.
Are you ready to take a lead role in finance and operations at a fast-growing, forward-thinking school? Do you want to shape the future of Watling Academy, including the launch of our brand-new Sixth Form?
The Role
Watling Academy is seeking an organised and driven Deputy Operations Manager – Business and Finance to play a key role in shaping our school’s financial and operational success. This is a hands-on role where you will drive improvements, champion new systems, and help optimise processes that will support our students, staff, and the wider school community. As our Deputy Operations Manager, you will:
- Manage budget setting and financial monitoring (non-payroll) to ensure strong financial health and long-term sustainability.
- Partner with budget holders, providing expert financial reporting and strategic support.
- Drive income generation, finding new opportunities to support and enhance school resources.
- Oversee invoicing and credit control, ensuring smooth and effective financial operations.
- Lead procurement and supplier management, securing value for money and maintaining key contracts.
- Champion the implementation of a new finance system, improving efficiency across the school.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and refine key systems within a dynamic, forward-thinking school, particularly with the upcoming launch of the Watling Academy Sixth Form in September 2025.
About Watling Academy
Watling Academy is an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ secondary school situated on the western edge of Milton Keynes, encompassing the Whitehouse and Fairfields developments. Opening in September 2020, our school is a new and vibrant learning community for students aged 11-18. We are excited to open the Watling Academy Sixth Form to our first cohort of Year 12 students from September 2025, which will provide further educational opportunities. Our core values of Respect, Responsibility and Kindness embody the ‘Watling Way’ and are integral to the way we interact, learn and grow together as a community.
For more information about our school, please explore our website: www.watling.academy
Learn more about why you should join us by downloading the attached Watling Academy Recruitment Pack
About The Denbigh Alliance
The Denbigh Alliance Trust is driven by our mission of Care, Education and Opportunity. We prioritise care by ensuring that no student or staff member ever feels anonymous. Everyone is recognised, valued and supported, creating a strong sense of belonging within our community. Our commitment to education is reflected in our proven track record of academic success, consistently outperforming both Milton Keynes and national averages. We offer opportunity through supportive and dynamic learning environments, where every student can thrive and be well-prepared for future success in higher education or employment. For staff, we offer extensive opportunities for professional development and progression within our growing network of schools, empowering you to advance your career within a united, forward-thinking Trust.
As a Maths Hub, Computing Hub and SCITT, we are recognised as leaders in raising educational standards both within our Trust and in the schools we support. We are proud to appoint motivated, highly qualified staff who thrive in a culture where collaboration and the spirit of partnership are central to everything we do.
How to Apply
Due to our commitment to safer recruitment practices, we can only accept applications through My New Term. Please do not submit CVs.
The Denbigh Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
E-mail: hr@thedenbighalliance.org.uk
Headteacher: Mrs Helen Fry
Closing date for applications: Monday 17th March 2025, 9am
Interviews: Thursday 20th March 2025
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 are not accepted.
About Watling Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1203 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Watling Academy website
Watling Academy is a purpose-built secondary school in its second year of operation, located within the Whitehouse development on the western expansion area of Milton Keynes. The Academy will have 1800 students when at full capacity. Watling Academy is part of the Denbigh Alliance MAT.
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