Senior Finance Manager

Job Purpose

The Senior Finance Manager will oversee the financial operations of the school, ensuring effective financial management alongside compliance with technical and regulatory requirements. This role involves financial reporting and process management, budgeting, and leading a finance team. In sum, it is an important transactional financial management role for an experienced accountant.

The role manages two staff members and as a team has responsibility to deliver the core financial operations of the school including;

• Order to Cash (ordering, billing, Accounts Receivable)
• Purchase to Pay (POs, ordering, receipting, processing and Accounts Payable)
• Payroll processes (payroll is delivered entirely in-house by the finance team)
• Banking and Cash operations (including investment and cashflow management)
• Record to Report processes (reconciliations, journals, periodic closes, management accounts)
• Statutory compliance (including VAT, accounts and charity matters)
• FP&A (budgeting and forecasting, alongside supporting the DFO with ad-hoc analysis and costing/pricing/modelling projects

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Professional accounting qualification (likely to be either ACA or ACCA)
• Significant experience in finance management role/s, ideally within the education sector.
• Strong knowledge of financial management and accounting principles; particularly regarding best practice financial processes and controls
• Excellent leadership and team management skills.
• Proficiency in financial software and systems.

Desirable

• Knowledge of charity finance regulations.
• Experience with VAT and tax compliance in complex settings; ideally including some exposure to partial exemption and composite supply
• Experience with delivering payrolls; ideally including salary sacrifice pension offerings, and part-time and adhoc workers.
• Experience in using and developing mid-tier financial systems (iFinance, Netsuite, Sage200/Intacct, SAPOne, or similar)

Benefits

• Pension scheme (10% employer contribution).
• 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Free excellent lunch during term time
• On-site working during term-time, highly flexible hybrid working otherwise
• Professional development opportunities.
• Access to school facilities

SAFEGUARDING AND CHILD PROTECTION

Crosfields School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers, online checks and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Further information on our recruitment processes can be found on our website: Recruitment Policy.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. For further information, please see here Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 . As a result of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, employers now have to verify that new recruits who are not British nationals are eligible to work in this country. Therefore, any applicant who is offered an interview will asked to provide official documentation to verify their ID, address and right to work in the UK. It is also normal practice for the School to ask for original qualifications and professional membership documents to be presented at interview as detailed on the application form