Accountant
Claires Court Schools
Windsor and Maidenhead
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- February 2025
- Apply by:
- 20 January 2025
Job overview
We seek to appoint an enthusiastic accountant to join our highly committed and professional team. The purpose of the role is to work in partnership with the Head of Finance to support the EMT and Principals by providing financial information, financial management and legal compliance to ensure the overall financial security, prosperity and long-term sustainability of Claires Court School.
As an accountant your role will be to assist in continuous improvements to support better decision-making within the school environment. You will also play a lead role in all aspects of Value-added Tax (VAT) to optimise processes, systems, relationships with HMRC and facilitate a shared understanding within the school. This full-time post is required as soon as possible and ideally before December 2024 in readiness for the VAT changes.
To be successful in this role, you must:
- Be a qualified accountant (ACCA or ACA) with a minimum of 3 years post qualification experience.
- Have a sound knowledge of accounting standards and proven experience in financial reporting and in the preparation of management accounts, forecasts and statutory accounts.
- Relevant experience working with VAT and able to explain complex VAT concepts to both Finance and non-Finance colleagues.
- Ability to understand, interpret and communicate financial data at all levels of an organisation.
- A passion for working in an education setting and commitment to our purpose and vision of a school in the independent school sector.
- Someone who sees finance as an enabler and can think creatively and innovatively to progress our most important outcomes for the community we serve.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a clear focus on customer service and an ability to inspire confidence to aid senior management in making financial decision making.
Above all, you must want the best for our pupils. In return, we offer a positive working environment, supportive colleagues, and regular professional development and training opportunities.
APPLICATIONS
To apply, please download an application form from our website. Completed application forms may be emailed to recruitment@clairescourt.com (no agencies, please). Alternatively, please post completed forms to the following address:-
HR Department
Claires Court Schools Ltd
1 College Avenue
MAIDENHEAD
SL6 6AW
Applications must be received by 8.00 am on Monday 20 January 2025. Please apply early, as applications will be considered upon receipt; we reserve the right to interview/appoint prior to the closing date.
NB: CVs will not be accepted in place of an application form but may be submitted as additional supporting documentation.
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About Claires Court Schools
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Claires Court Schools are proprietarily owned and operated by Hugh and James Wilding. For those who like their historical facts, Claires Court first opened its doors as a preparatory school in September 1960 led by David and Josephine Wilding – parents of the current owners. In those days Claires Court was a boarding school and Ridgeway one of the boarding houses.
As the demand for boarding reduced, the School gradually moved to a day school to 13 years of age, extending over the years to add GCSE and thus a leaving age of 16.
In 1993 College came under the Claires Court umbrella adding co-ed Nursery provision and in 1994 the co-ed Sixth Form started with 19 boys and 1 girl!
Here therefore was the birth of our unique education – the statutory school years of education with boys and girls separate but meeting for extra curricular activities, the performing arts, departmental trips and so on.
Our achievements are many and varied – never assume that academic excellence is sufficient for our pupils – we want them to experience and achieve so much more and because of this, we offer an absolute fountain of opportunity to ensure that our boys and girls emerge into the world of work or university as well balanced individuals able to move forward in confidence and with competence.
Co-ordinated education for girls and boys from 2 to 18 years
Co-ordinated education means that boys and girls are educated separately but meet together with such activities as sailing, rowing, performing arts as well as day trips and field study courses – the best of both worlds!
Our Nursery and Sixth Form are co-ed whilst the 4 to 16 year olds are educated separately.
We achieve outstanding results at all levels throughout the School with an intake that is non-selective – entry is by report from previous school and interview with the Head.
We aim to educate the whole child, treating each boy or girl as an individual and ensuring they achieve their maximum potential – sometimes far beyond what they believed they were capable of achieving.
Not only are our results excellent, we offer a school day that is brimming with opportunity and variety – both inside the classroom and out.
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