Finance Manager
The Vine Inter-Church Primary School, Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, CB23 6DY21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Term time (38 weeks) + 2 weeks 32.5 hours per week (FTE 37 hours) Term time hours Monday to Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm - with 0.5 hour unpaid lunch break Non term time hours to be worked as needed, according to business needs
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC Scale 6 Point 18 - 22 (FTE £29,269 - £31,364) - starting point depending on experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
- To manage effective financial services to the school, including managing the day-to-day financial transactions of the school, accurately and on time, in order to assist with the smooth running of the school’s finances.
- To prepare the management accounts and statutory returns and to manage the Year End process.
- To maintain a strategic financial plan that will indicate trends and requirements of the school development plan and will forecast future year budgets
- To manage the administration of financial personnel functions in the school
- To oversee the purchase of supplies, equipment and services
- To manage maintenance of administrative systems that deliver outcomes based on the school’s aims and goals
- To support and communicate clearly the school’s development/strategic plan
What the school offers its staff
Flexible working opportunities can be discussed for successful candidate. CPD opportunities available where relevant to role.
Further details about the role
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Financial Administration and Management
- To be responsible for budget modelling, drawing up base budgets, provisional budgets and final budget, and providing financial information and advice to the Headteacher and Governing Body
- To monitor salaries and expenditure and ensure debts to the school are recovered, advising the Headteacher and Governors accordingly
- To manage the maintenance of accounting records relating to the school budget together with the appropriate financial controls and regulations
- To check the ordering, processing and payment of all goods and services
- To ensure up-to-date records of all expenditure and income are kept, informing the Headteacher and budget-holders about under and over spending of budgets
- To develop and monitor a long-term financial strategy for the school in consultation with the Headteacher and Governing Body
- To seek professional advice on insurance and advise the Headteacher and governors on the appropriate insurances for the school, implementing the approved insurances and ensure that they have met requirements, handling any claims that arise.
- To prepare for annual audits
- To manage the school’s VAT responsibilities, advising the Governing Body in the financial and legislative implications
- To be responsible for the management of income generation, including school lettings and fundraising initiatives, liaising with the Headteacher
- Identifying additional grants and funding streams and submitting applications as required in consultation with the Headteacher and Governors. This will include writing tenders and bids that are compliant with regulations
- To liaise with contract providers to ensure contracts are fulfilled and Headteacher is informed of changes or areas of concern
- To manage the school’s breakfast and After School Club finances.
- Monitor cash flow
- Liaise with IT contractors
- Oversee weekly and end of term banking (if applicable)
- Oversee use of Parent Pay (or any other parental payment system used)
- Attend governor meetings as Headteacher requires
- Oversee PPG and Free School Meals data to ensure correct for each census submission
- Monitor monies received for PPG, Sports premium and any other such grants
Insurance
- Act as primary point of contact for the School’s Insurance brokers, dealing with the annual insurance renewal.
- Ensure that adequate cover is maintained.
- Oversee maintenance of the school’s asset registers (not including IT).
- Oversee the handling of any claims on the insurance policies.
School Site
- Line manage and oversee the school site team, ensuring the school remains compliant with all health and safety regulations.
The Breakfast and After School Club.
- To support the rotas, organisation and matters arising concerning the Breakfast and After School Club Provision.
Health & Safety Management
- Ensure that the school’s written Health & Safety Policy is clearly communicated and available to all people
- To communicate with Health & Safety providers on matters that arise and ensure contract is fulfilled
Support for the School
- Contribute and support of the school’s values and vision and communicate these enthusiastically to all staff and other stakeholders
- Maintain a visible professional profile within the school
- Understand the culture and climate of the school and where appropriate the wider educational environment
- Safeguard the school’s assets
- To write policies when requested by the Headteacher
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure all have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
- Establish constructive relationships
- Participate in training and other learning activities as required
- Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise
- Assist in the training and development of the staff as appropriate
- Potential to become a member of the school’s Senior Leadership Team (for right candidate)
Commitment to safeguarding
The Vine Inter-Church Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, the prevention of discrimination and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all and expects all staff and volunteers to share these commitments.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@thevine.cambs.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About The Vine Inter-Church Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England/Methodist, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 396 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@thevine.cambs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01954 719 630
Our Vision prayer highlights our school’s mission to create pupils and international citizens who make the world a better place. We strive to follow the guidance given by Jesus in a global context. We believe that we need to support the development of the whole person, nurturing strong self-esteem, self-knowledge and self-responsibility. Spirituality comes through making faith live and helping others. We believe strongly in developing children who have a love for the arts and vocational fields, who have strong basic skills and are able to take pride in themselves as a British and international citizen. We develop courageous advocacy in pupils following the example of John Wesley and believe in international collaboration, mirroring Anglicanism as a global church.
We are a larger than average primary school (408) with a pre-school class (42) situated in the new build development of Cambourne. The school opened in 2005 and has been rated Good by Ofsted since 2010. We have an Outstanding SIAMS (10/11/2015) and are a dual Methodist and Anglican school. In 2021/22 our national data outcomes were far above national in all areas (GLD 75% phonics 98%; KS1 RWM 75%; KS2 RWM 74%- including reading at 92% and greater depth reading 31%). 2021/22 data link
Pupils of The Vine are known locally for being good citizens. They actively support worthwhile causes and take a lead in organising charitable activities both locally and nationally, due to deliberately planned and spontaneous opportunities. The Vine curriculum is broad and exciting, the core & foundation subjects are well taught, our curriculum is rooted in basic skills and our values of internationalism and advocacy. 43 languages are spoken, with EAL being above national average at 41%.
The % of children on pupil premium is 18%. Due to the nature of the new build development the vulnerable children at The Vine have a higher-than-average level of emotional need -over 68% of our pupils are monitored due to having a potential vulnerability indicator (up from 65% in 20-21).
Many of our pupils have been rehoused in Cambourne from the city, & consequently have moved away from support networks, resulting in vulnerable families being isolated within a community that is more affluent around them. 16% of pupils have SEND and 7 have an EHCP
Our attendance before and during the pandemic (94%) has consistently been well above national (88%), with a focus on vulnerable groups (SEN 95% (national SEN 82%), FSM 93% (national FSM 84%) due to praise, rewards and persistence
Arranging a visit to The Vine Inter-Church Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@thevine.cambs.sch.uk.
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