School Business Manager
Beths Grammar School, Bexley, Kent, DA5 1NE28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2026
Closing date
12 January 2026 at 8am
Date listed
24 November 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
- Salary negotiable based on experience and qualifications
Additional allowances
Salary negotiable based on experience and qualifications
School Business Manager job summary
Start date Easter 2026
Term 36 hours per week/52 weeks per year
Salary Salary negotiable based on experience and qualifications
Beths Grammar School is selective school for boys aged 11 to 16, and co-educational 16-18, in the Bexley and Kent area. We provide an exciting, purposeful and vibrant learning environment that challenges and supports all our students to thrive and achieve their potential. Students enjoy a rigorous, engaging and diverse curriculum which delivers the platinum standard of education, and makes us the selective and inclusive school of choice.
Our inclusive ethos is encapsulated in our values of Excellence, Community and Respect, which are built on our rich heritage as a school. These are at the heart of all we do for our students, helping us to foster a compassionate, close-knit school community where we all share the same high expectations, standards and care for our students and staff.
We aim to create young adults who are forward thinking, confident, motivated, competitive and are highly successful. The School Business Manager plays an integral role in supporting these ambitions for our students and school.
Due to the retirement of our current Business Manager, we are seeking to appoint their replacement. As the school’s leading support staff professional, you will be part of the Senior Leadership Team reporting directly to the Headteacher. You will be responsible for the financial strategy and business management of the school including the school estate.
The successful applicant will:
Educated to degree level and have a recognised CCAB Accountancy Qualification
Sound business knowledge ideally in a school setting but not essential
Ability to lead on all financial matters within the school, ensuring that financial decisions are clearly linked to the school’s strategic goals and improvement plan
Excellent organisational skills and an ability to prioritise
Calm under pressure, with an ability to provide solutions and adapt to changing priorities
Good communication and written skills
An understanding and commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
A desire to make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people, working within a warm, supportive and close-knit team.
Why join Beths Grammar School?
CPD programme for staff development, helping you to progress and deepen your career, skillset and passion
24/7 Employee Wellbeing Support Programmer (free & confidential)
Personal equipment including dedicated laptop
Local Government Pension Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Use of school gym
Access to staff social events
A good commuter location, situated between London and Kent
Closing date 9am 12th January 2026
Applications should be submitted to the school by 9am 12th January 2026. Electronic submissions are preferred, and application forms can be found on TES or on the school website, no CVs please. We intend to interview week commencing 19th January 2026. Please note that we reserve the right to close any advert before the advertised closing date should a sufficient response have been received. Therefore, please ensure that you complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
We at Beths Grammar School are committed to practice which protects children from harm. Safeguarding and the promotion of a child’s welfare covers all aspects of the child’s life and Beths Grammar School is committed to ensuring that all its actions in respect for a child are compatible with this aim. All positions are subject to a DBS enhanced disclosure check. Applicants must complete the school application form and in line with ‘keeping children safe in education’ and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a Self Disclosure form prior to interview. Previous applicants for this role will not be considered.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Beths Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1664 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Beths Grammar School website
Set in acres of pleasant grounds, Beths Grammar School is located within easy commuting distance of both central London and Kent, offering the advantages of a diverse and forward-thinking community within a haven of green space. The mainline railway station is less than ten minutes’ walk away; while for road users, there is a junction on the A2 close by (two of the three school fields run alongside the A2). Many staff choose to live close to the school, or in neighbouring boroughs, and the borough of Bexley has a wealth of high performing schools
and good quality housing stock at competitive prices.
Beths is an academic institution that fosters an ethos in which working hard and wanting to achieve are the norm:
where it’s cool to be clever and successful. This is as true for the staff as for the students. We are ambitious for the young people in our care and seek to help them secure the very best outcomes of which they are capable.
As a selective school, the staff have the privilege of educating and working with intellectually able young people;
and the students have the privilege of being in an environment in which progress in learning can be rapid, and
subjects explored in real depth.
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