Finance & HR Manager - Stanley Green Infant Academy

Finance & Human Resources Manager required for an immediate start

Permanent Position

Term Time 39 weeks plus 15 additional days

30 hours per week, £27.241 - £29,127 (Actual Salary)

Working Hours: Our normal office opening hours are 08:30am-16:30pm Mon-Thurs, 08:30am-16:00pm Friday, (flexibility of working pattern to suit the right candidate)

Stanley Green Infant Academy is a popular and forward-thinking school and nursery that promotes a values-based and inclusive ethos to ensure quality first teaching for all children. It is our mission to promote a lifelong ‘Love for learning, Love for Life’!

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and self-motivated Finance & HR Manager to lead our professional and friendly Admin and Site team. This is a key post maintaining the school’s Budgets and Finance, whilst providing Financial and HR support to the Headteacher and Governing Body

We are looking for someone who:

• Is an enthusiastic team player with strong business, financial, HR and resource management
• Has experience of preparing budgets, budget monitoring and forecasting the year end outturn
• Holds a relevant accounting qualification or School Business Management qualification, with membership of a relevant professional body
• Can confidently manage secure, accurate financial data using school specific and standard software.
• Has proven experience of managing financial systems, ideally in education.
• Has a flair for operational management and strategic thinking
• Is proactive and forward thinking and will be able to support the school in its continual drive for improvement
• Is able to support the Headteacher and Governing body with financial reporting and attend meetings
• Has experience of working in a school environment
• Has experience of premises management

• Strong understanding of school budgets, accounting and financial compliance
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• High levels of self-motivation and organisational skills
• Ability to plan and prioritise a busy workload
• Commitment to high standards of work performance
• Ability to lead, support and motivate a team
• Ability to work well with a team
• Ability to be pro-active and solution focused, with attention to detail
• Willingness to participate fully in the life of the school
• Creativity and competence in using ICT and other media
• Knowledge of the Academy Trust Handbook
• Proven experience of Payroll and HR processes and compliance
• Secure knowledge of school business systems
• Good knowledge of DfE and HMRC statutory reporting and returns

We can offer you:

• A friendly and supportive working environment
• A commitment to ongoing continuing professional development
• Opportunities for career progression
• One wellbeing day per year
• Access to free health and wellbeing services

We welcome applications from exceptional candidates who will make an effective contribution to our high attaining, popular and forward-thinking Single Academy Trust.

Stanley Green values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Stanley Green will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.