Finance Manager
Blackfen School for Girls, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 9NU14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
15 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
1 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £50,544 - £58,347
What skills and experience we're looking for
A qualified accountant
A member of a relevant professional accountancy body
Hold the CIPFA Level 7 qualification.
What the school offers its staff
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Automatic Incremental Progression
- 28 days Annual Leave (rising to 31 after 5 years’ service) plus bank holiday entitlement
- Christmas Concessionary Day
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Kaarp Benefits Scheme
- Effective CPD opportunities
- Excellent ICT facilities
- Opportunities for flexible working
Further information about the job
Our Governors wish to appoint a School Finance Manager, we are seeking somebody to lead our finance team and ensure the financial health and sustainability of our School. You will provide strong financial leadership, ensure effective financial management and controls, and help translate our financial strategy into meaningful operational delivery.
We are looking for a confident and collaborative finance professional who can combine technical expertise with leadership, strategic thinking and a genuine appetite for improvement. You will be comfortable working with senior colleagues, challenging constructively, managing competing priorities and communicating complex financial information clearly to a range of audiences.
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Blackfen School for Girls
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1324 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- vacancies@blackfen.bexley.sch.uk
Blackfen school is an 11-18 non-selective school in the London Borough of Bexley. The school has 1350 students and around 330 of those are in our thriving mixed sixth form. Our school motto is “raising aspirations – releasing potential” which continues to be a key focus for the school.
To us “raising aspirations – releasing potential” is not just about results. We aim to develop our young people as citizens who readily take on responsibility. As a school we know that we have a key role to play in this. We want our young people to develop confidence and self- esteem through a variety of opportunities available to them.
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