Finance Manager - The Ridgeway Primary School

The Ridgeway Primary School, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 8JD

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 22 hours a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £13,328 to £21,329 Per year

What skills and experience we're looking for

2/3 days per week – Actual days of work negotiable - Term time only plus two additional weeks - Required from September 2025

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and self-motivated Finance Manager to join our Admin team from September 2025. This is a key post within the school administering the school’s finance and budgets.

“The Ridgeway Primary is an inclusive place with a strong caring ethos. The school has high expectations for its pupils across all aspects of school life. The environment is calm and purposeful. Pupils are proud to belong to this school. They are rightly confident that staff will support them if they have any worries. They are happy, respectful and very well cared for.” (Ofsted January 2025)

We are seeking someone who is/has:

• An enthusiastic team player with strong business, financial and resource management

• Experience of preparing budgets, budget monitoring and forecasting the year end outturn

• A flair for operational management and strategic thinking

• Proactive and forward thinking and will be able to support the school in its continual drive for improvement

• A good communicator with competent IT skills – use of Word, Excel and Outlook

• Experience of using online portals, BACS, FMS, SIMs and Arbor

• Able to support the governing body with financial reporting and attend meetings• Experience of premise management

What the school offers its staff

We can offer:

• A caring and supportive team of colleagues

• Effective support from an informed and supportive Governing Body

• Well established financial process and procedures

• A commitment to support staff professional development, work-life balance and wellbeing

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Rachel Wiggins, Office Manager, for an application pack via email: officemanager@theridgeway.reading.sch.uk or telephone 0118 937 5530 or visit: https://www.theridgewayprimary.net/

Closing date: Applications will be considered upon receiptInterview date: To be confirmed

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance. The Ridgeway Primary School is committed to inclusion and equity. We welcome talented applicants from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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

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About The Ridgeway Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 410 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Ridgeway Primary School website
• Email address: officemanager@theridgeway.reading.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-ridgeway-primary-school

Arranging a visit to The Ridgeway Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email officemanager@theridgeway.reading.sch.uk.

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