Finance Business Partner

Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  to be confirmed

• Closing date

  13 May 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
• Subject: Accounting
• Working pattern: Full time: 36 hours per week, all year round, 8.45am – 4.30pm (M-Th) and 8.45am – 4.15pm (Fr)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Scale PO3/4, £42,836 - £49,077 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Duties:

• Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts.

• To actively collaborate with the wider finance team to maintain and champion the integrity of financial information.

• To support and enable budget holders with budget management, exercising considerable judgement, in particular with Principals.

• Collaborate with the business to help ensure the HR database provides accurate financial information to support budget management.

• Ensure timely issuing of all income invoices and the monitoring of payments, as well as undertaking complex modelling of income.

• Preparation, maintenance and delivery of financial models for multi-year budgets.

What the school offers its staff

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.

Further details about the role

Requirements:

• Proven experience in a similar role, preferably within the education or public sector.
• Demonstrable knowledge of financial management, budget planning, analysis and reporting.
• Proficiency with Excel to a good or advanced level (Pivots, Sumifs, Lookups as a minimum).
• Experience of managing direct reports.
• Excellent communication skills.

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

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Apply for the job by following the link below

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Finance Business Partner Person Specification (2).pdf - 99.9 KB (opens in new tab)

Finance Business Partner JD (2).pdf - 106 KB (opens in new tab)

10684-(ARIEL)Include-Magazine-Autumn-2024-WEB-FINAL-spreads.pdf - 4.27 MB (opens in new tab)

About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Orchard Hill College Academy Trust website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jobs@orchardhill.ac.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orchard-hill-college-academy-trust (opens in new tab)

Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.

Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.

Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.

Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.

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