Chief Financial Officer
The Royal School Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive, dependent on skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/01/2025
- Apply by:
- 25 October 2024
Job overview
The Royal School is seeking a highly motivated, experienced and innovative Chief Financial Officer to join this heavily oversubscribed day and boarding free school.
Overall Purpose of the Role:
As a member of the School’s Executive Team, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will have strategic responsibility for all aspects of The Royal School, Wolverhampton Trust (‘the Trust’) finance, asset management, risk management and capital planning and procurement. Delivering operational rigour and strategic direction, the CFO will play an integral role in supporting the development of the Trust and ensure it continues to be financially sustainable. As a member of the Trust’s Leadership Team the CFO will play a key role in shaping the strategy of the Trust and ensuring that strong financial practices and strategy are embedded within all strategic planning. The CFO will lead strategically and operationally to provide excellent financial leadership, guidance and support to the Trust board and school. The CFO will lead, and line manage the Trust’s finance team.
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About The Royal School Wolverhampton
- The Royal School Wolverhampton
- Penn Road, Wolverhampton
- West Midlands
- WV3 0EG
- United Kingdom
The Royal School Wolverhampton is a co-educational, all-through free school based in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, for students aged 4-19. The school is non-selective and non-denominational.
The Royal School was founded in 1850 as an orphanage by a local philanthropist and businessman, John Lees.
Boarders can join the school from age 10 upwards and stay in one of its single-sex boarding houses. Boarding accommodation is in spacious and well-equipped 25-acre grounds surrounded by woodlands, offering a secure and peaceful environment with the convenience of an urban setting.
Principal
Mark Heywood
Values and vision
The Royal School Wolverhampton aims for pupils to grow into confident and mature young adults with an awareness of their own potential, alongside an understanding and appreciation of their wider community. It has an extended school day, with its academic timetable running alongside a busy programme of extracurricular activity.
The Royal School is home to students of many different nationalities, which it believes adds to the diverse learning experience of pupils and their effective preparation for the world outside of school. Teachers provide a unique cultural, academic and sporting mix that plays a vital role in every child’s success. The school has a long-standing tradition of a friendly, competitive house system and gives seniors the opportunity to take on leadership roles through the Duke of Edinburgh scheme and Combined Cadet Force.
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