The Finance Manager will support the school in ensuring that all financial transactions are properly authorised and recorded in an accurate and timely manner and in accordance with the Trust Finance Handbook.  Support the School Business Manager/Headteacher in ensuring robust financial management throughout the school.  Provide assistance to all staff members in the school on financial processes.

There is potential for this role to be performed as a job share, and therefore we would encourage suitable candidates to apply whether they are seeking a full or part time post.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, be able to work on their own initiative and should have experience working within a generalised finance role.

Support staff at Oxford Spires Academy are full members of the school team and give highly effective support.  The successful candidate will be a valued member of the teaching and support teams and will make a contribution to the wider ethos, values and culture of the school.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the recruitment campaign earlier that this date subject to the volume of applications received.  We therefore encourage candidates to submit applications as early as possible.