Finance Manager
RGS Guildford
Surrey
- £50,000 - £55,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 May 2023
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Finance Manager to join the team at Royal Grammar School, Guildford.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will manage and oversee the financial accounting activities, systems and processes including responsibility for external financial reporting and regulatory returns.
With two direct reports, your responsibilities will include:
- Statutory accounts and external audit
- Support production of management accounts, budget and forecast
- Overseeing the payroll & benefits function
- Administration of the Bursary programme
We are looking for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build positive, supportive and collaborative relationships across the organisation. Experience of the education sector is not essential, but you will have a positive, flexible and energetic approach to your work.
In return we offer:
- £50,000 - £55,000 per annum
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Private medical cover
- Complimentary lunch during term time
- Company pension scheme with an individual contribution of 5% and a School contribution of 10%.
- Interest-free loans are available for rail season ticket holders
- Charitable payroll giving scheme
- Free use of school gym
Register your interest now for a full job description and details of how to apply.
Please note: applications will be considered on receipt and we reserve the right to close applications early.
About RGS Guildford
Located in the historic town of Guildford, the Royal Grammar School, dating back to 1509, is a leading independent day school for boys aged 11 – 18. Consistently regarded as one of the top three boys’ schools in the country, the RGS combines academic excellence with a passionate commitment to pastoral care and co-curricular opportunity in a friendly, supportive community of approximately 950 students and 120 teaching staff.
The original Tudor building, constructed between 1557 and 1586, is still used by the students; in addition, development of the site continues to provide facilities conducive to teaching and learning in the 21st century and to performance in all areas at the highest level. The School is committed to nurturing its staff and a structured, bespoke approach to professional development means that the whole community is united in a desire to improve, progress and be enriched.
Headmaster
Dr JM Cox
Values and vision
The RGS believes passionately in preparing our students for the challenges of a rapidly-changing, global future, as well as providing them with excellent foundations so that they can have the most ambitious of aspirations at university and beyond. Our bespoke Learning Habits nurture and develop all those transferable skills which will set up our young men irrespective of their chosen path: thinking critically, being independent and creative, being resilient and self-motivated; collaborating and working together, and being equally confident as leader or as part of a team.
Our timeless School Values – inclusivity; scholarship; integrity; respect; tenacity; and service – which are embedded in the curricular and extra-curricular life of the School ensure RGS students emerge as humble, grounded and decent young men committed to making the very best of each and every opportunity and to making a difference to others.
ISI report
“Pupils show an acute sense of respect for each other and recognise the school’s important role, underpinned by its inclusive values, in creating an academically challenging, positive and welcoming community where they can develop and flourish as true individuals.”
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