Financial Controller
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Westminster School
Westminster
- £75,000 pro rata
- Expired
- Salary:
- £75,000 per annum, pro rata
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 17 October 2024
Job overview
The role
This is an exciting opportunity for a well-qualified accountant to play a key leadership role within our finance team at Westminster School.
The Financial Controller will assume responsibility for the day-to-day financial operations of the School, associated charities and companies, including managing sales, purchase and general ledgers, bank accounts, the expenses system and fixed asset register.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing the month-end and year-end financial accounting processes, ensuring the delivery of a clean audit, as well as accurate and timely annual accounts
- Ensuring the accuracy of the trial balance through ad-hoc and regular forensic reviews of key figures and processes
- Leading the transactional accounting team to provide a responsive, efficient and customer facing transaction processing service
- Ensuring all balance sheet reconciliations, bank accounts and control accounts are completed and reconciled monthly in accordance with a month end close timetable
They will also be responsible for leadership and development of the team, effectively embedding our new iFinance system and driving continuous improvements in financial processes, ways of working and our engagement with all internal and external stakeholders and customers.
Please note, this is a fully onsite role.
About you
The successful candidate will need a recognised accountancy qualification (i.e. ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent), as well as extensive financial accounting and tax experience within a medium/large sized finance function. They will possess strong leadership skills, including experience of managing a team of staff. They must be able to understand complex processes and implement improvements when necessary and can communicate financial information clearly and effectively to non-financial stakeholders.
About the school
Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the school has a special atmosphere.
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For this role, there is no fixed closing date. Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews may occur at any stage.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
The school is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school for boys aged 13-18 and girls aged 16-18, with a long history, a distinctive ethos, and a unique sense of place in the very heart of London. Pupils achieve exceptional examination results and entrance to some of the top universities in the world. It is a busy, passionate and purposeful place where independent and deep thinking is enjoyed, encouraged and respected by all, and where holistic excellence is nurtured and valued.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future. At Westminster, pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led societies take place every week at the School, often with expert guest speakers, and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in local primary schools, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.
From September 2028, the School will welcome both girls and boys at 13+ entry, offering a Westminster education to all. By 2026, Westminster Under School will have opened its brand new pre-prep for girls and boys at 4+ and girls will have joined boys in Years 3 and 7, at the 7+ and 11+ entry points. By 2030, all year groups at Westminster School and Westminster Under School, from ages four to 18, will be fully co-educational, reflecting the School’s dedication to inclusivity and excellence.
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