Finance Manager

Closing date: Sunday 9 August Midnight

Interview: Thursday 13 August

Start Date: As Soon As Possible

Salary: £47,500 - £52,500 depending on skills and experience

This role is full time, 52 weeks a year

We seek an outstanding and innovative Finance Manager to join our team at Walthamstow Academy. As the Finance Manager, you will support the Principal in all financial areas. You will undertake day to day duties relating to finance, administration, and resource management in the Academy. We will be responsible for maintaining the Academy’s financial systems and accounts, ensuring smooth running of the Academy’s finance system, and compliance with finance regulations and policies.

We know that outstanding Finance Managers have transferable skills and are confident and effective in all aspects of their role but we also recognise that you will need support and challenge yourself so that you can grow to be the best you can be – we will make this happen. You will relate to the Academy’s ethos of “the best in everyone” and enjoy working with a rich, diverse group of young people in a dynamic and vibrant learning environment. Walthamstow Academy is sponsored by United Learning. As part of the largest group of Academies and independent schools, we offer outstanding professional development and career progression across both the maintained and independent sector. To conclude, we need someone who is passionate about making a difference, please get in touch.

Main Responsibilities include

• Maintaining all the Academy’s financial systems and accounts, ensuring compliance with finance regulations and policies
• Ensuring timely production and issue of financial reports and returns as required by the Principal and the Governing Body
• Providing financial assistance to support effective control by ensuring reconciliation of the purchase ledger.
• With support from United Learning, preparing the annual budget. including financial forecasting, expenditure projections and analysis of spending trends to support effective financial planning.
• Raising invoices, preparing sundry cheques for signature, checking supplier statements, issuing receipts and ensuring expenditure is within budget.
• Ensuring timely completion of control accounts.
• Managing income from premises lettings, funding streams and outside bodies.

• Liaising with suppliers regarding payments and statements.
• Having overall responsibility for the receipt, safekeeping and banking of all monies received by the Academy.
• Ensuring budget holders’ compliance with appropriate financial regulations.