Senior Management Accountant

Uxbridge High School, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 2PR

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Immediate

• Closing date

  9 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  29 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £49,054 - £53,171 pa (UHS Support Pay Range 35-39 inclusive of London weighting)

Senior Management Accountant job summary

Our School

Uxbridge High School is a vibrant and ambitious school delivering a gold standard education that enriches students academically, socially, and emotionally. Proud to Make Success Happen, we work with students, families, and staff to ensure every student reaches their potential. We take pride in our diverse and ambitious students, our dedicated staff, and strong community partnerships

Our PROUD values, Positive, Respectful, Open-minded, Unique and Determined, guide all aspects of school life.

Uxbridge High School Academy Trust is committed to creating an environment where staff feel supported, challenged, and valued. This is reflected in our gold standard approach to teaching, curriculum, and professional development. Our People Strategy. outlines how we invest in and value staff as an essential part of the school community.

The Department

The Finance Team at Uxbridge High School plays a key role in supporting the school’s strategic priorities by ensuring effective financial management and accountability. The team is responsible for overseeing the school’s budget, monitoring income and expenditure, and ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently to support high-quality teaching and learning.

The Position

Uxbridge High School is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Management Accountant to join our Finance Team. This is a senior technical finance role and presents an excellent opportunity for a fully qualified accountant to play a key part in delivering accurate, timely and insightful financial management across the school.

The successful candidate will join a hardworking and committed team that has made significant progress in strengthening financial operations, improving processes and embedding a culture of best value. We are now looking for a technically strong finance professional who can build on these foundations, bring rigour and accuracy to financial reporting, and support continuous improvement across our finance systems, controls and processes.

As Senior Management Accountant, you will lead on management accounts, budget monitoring, forecasting, reconciliations, cashflow reporting, payroll review and financial controls. You will provide clear financial commentary and advice to the Director of Finance & Operations, senior leaders, trustees and budget holders, ensuring that financial information supports effective decision-making.

We are seeking a fully qualified accountant with a recognised professional accountancy body at chartered or chartered-equivalent level, such as ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS or equivalent. You will need strong management accounting skills, excellent attention to detail, advanced Excel skills, sound judgement and the ability to work calmly and professionally in a busy school environment. You must be confident managing competing priorities, working to deadlines, challenging inconsistencies appropriately, and explaining financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues.

Please note that the school reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the stated deadline should a sufficient number of applications be received. Early application is therefore strongly advised.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.

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.

About Uxbridge High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1345 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Uxbridge High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/uxbridge-high-school-uxbridge

Uxbridge High School is an ambitious and dynamic converter academy with over 1,200 students aged 11 -18.
We have much to celebrate at Uxbridge High School including a committed and focused staff, outstanding facilities, strong relationships with the community and school partners, supportive Governors and a thriving Sixth Form.

We are delighted to be recognised by Alps in the top 20% of UK schools, celebrating outstanding Sixth Form student progress at A-level. We value the successes of every child, whatever their starting point. All of this takes place within a truly comprehensive and multicultural school that reflects life in modern Britain.

Our school values have been developed by students and staff, and form the basis of our ethos and culture.

All members of our school community subscribe and work towards always being: Positive, Respectful, Open-Minded, Unique, Determined: PROUD to Make Success Happen.

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