Finance Business Partner
Harrow School
Harrow
- New
- Salary:
- Please contact the recruitment team for salary information
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 20 October 2024
Job overview
Full time, all year round • 40 hours per week • Monday to Friday 09.00 – 17.00
The environment: Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Ever since it was founded over 450 years ago by John Lyon, Harrow School, John Lyon’s School and the Harrow International Schools have been providing industry-leading educational opportunities to pupils from around the world. John Lyon’s Foundation is the umbrella organisation that oversees the Corporation’s schools and its charitable entities.
The role: The Finance Business Partner provides financial, planning and analysis (FP&A) support to the CFCO; and finance business partnering support to senior stakeholders and finance colleagues across the Harrow School Corporation. It is an opportunity for involvement at the heart of this historic organisation, using your budget preparation, monthly reporting and financial modelling expertise to evolve the Corporation’s robust financial processes; and your stakeholder experience to assist non-financial managers to agree budgets that provide value for money whilst delivering the ambitious plans that maintain our leading position within the educational industry. You will be comfortable providing input into board-level reports and will enjoy the opportunity to work on bespoke financial projects. For more information please review the job description attached as a separate document to this advertisement.
The skills: This role will suit a candidate with first-class, end-to-end budgeting skills, from involvement in budget preparation, to financial modelling, assessing business cases and advising non-financial managers in budget conversations. You may have a background in auditing within a well-known accounting organisation before developing your skills as an accomplished financial business partner in a large company with diverse departments. You will have the ability to build trusted relationships with departmental budget holders by having financial conversations in a friendly, approachable manner with non-financial managers so that realistic budgets can be set and achieved. You will be known for your sound business judgement and initiative, with a curiosity and drive to pursue efficiencies and enable better ways of working.
The benefits include:
- Free lunch.
- Automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme.
- Salary sacrifice scheme.
- Use of the School’s sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track.
- Subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
Applications will be processed as they are received and interviews may take place before the closing date, so early application is recommended.
Closing date: Midnight, 20 October 2024
Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome everyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. No member of staff will be able to start until these checks are complete and this process takes, on average, a month. Please plan accordingly.
Attached documents
About Harrow School
Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London. The School is located on a 324-acre estate which encompasses much of Harrow on the Hill and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 837 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. Employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow School is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18. It was established, by royal charter, in 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is operated as a Royal Charter Corporation, which is a charitable trust whose trustees are the school’s governors. The school licenses the Harrow name to a number of schools in Asia.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should not be measured purely by grades, but by their influence on the wider world.
The school believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and in order to answer the questions: “what do we belong to?”, “what’s important to us?”, "why do our collective efforts matter?”, and “what holds us together?”.
Harrow’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the school to make decisions from day-to-day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These four Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation, and the principles of “Godliness and good learning” established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
“Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.”
“Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.”
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