Finance Manager - The Ridgeway Primary School
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Reading, Berkshire, RG2 8JD |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 8089f70a-2f2c-4cb6-9b90-773c197691fb |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
2/3 days per week – Actual days of work negotiable - Term time only plus two additional weeks - Required from September 2025
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and self-motivated Finance Manager to join our Admin team from September 2025. This is a key post within the school administering the school’s finance and budgets.
“The Ridgeway Primary is an inclusive place with a strong caring ethos. The school has high expectations for its pupils across all aspects of school life. The environment is calm and purposeful. Pupils are proud to belong to this school. They are rightly confident that staff will support them if they have any worries. They are happy, respectful and very well cared for.” (Ofsted January 2025)
We are seeking someone who is/has:
• An enthusiastic team player with strong business, financial and resource management
• Experience of preparing budgets, budget monitoring and forecasting the year end outturn
• A flair for operational management and strategic thinking
• Proactive and forward thinking and will be able to support the school in its continual drive for improvement
• A good communicator with competent IT skills – use of Word, Excel and Outlook
• Experience of using online portals, BACS, FMS, SIMs and Arbor
• Able to support the governing body with financial reporting and attend meetings• Experience of premise management
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A caring and supportive team of colleagues
• Effective support from an informed and supportive Governing Body
• Well established financial process and procedures
• A commitment to support staff professional development, work-life balance and wellbeing
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Rachel Wiggins, Office Manager, for an application pack via email: officemanager@theridgeway.reading.sch.uk or telephone 0118 937 5530 or visit: https://www.theridgewayprimary.net/
Closing date: Applications will be considered upon receiptInterview date: To be confirmed
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance. The Ridgeway Primary School is committed to inclusion and equity. We welcome talented applicants from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
2/3 days per week – Actual days of work negotiable - Term time only plus two additional weeks - Required from September 2025
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and self-motivated Finance Manager to join our Admin team from September 2025. This is a key post within the school administering the school’s finance and budgets.
“The Ridgeway Primary is an inclusive place with a strong caring ethos. The school has high expectations for its pupils across all aspects of school life. The environment is calm and purposeful. Pupils are proud to belong to this school. They are rightly confident that staff will support them if they have any worries. They are happy, respectful and very well cared for.” (Ofsted January 2025)
We are seeking someone who is/has:
• An enthusiastic team player with strong business, financial and resource management
• Experience of preparing budgets, budget monitoring and forecasting the year end outturn
• A flair for operational management and strategic thinking
• Proactive and forward thinking and will be able to support the school in its continual drive for improvement
• A good communicator with competent IT skills – use of Word, Excel and Outlook
• Experience of using online portals, BACS, FMS, SIMs and Arbor
• Able to support the governing body with financial reporting and attend meetings• Experience of premise management
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A caring and supportive team of colleagues
• Effective support from an informed and supportive Governing Body
• Well established financial process and procedures
• A commitment to support staff professional development, work-life balance and wellbeing
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Rachel Wiggins, Office Manager, for an application pack via email: officemanager@theridgeway.reading.sch.uk or telephone 0118 937 5530 or visit: https://www.theridgewayprimary.net/
Closing date: Applications will be considered upon receiptInterview date: To be confirmed
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance. The Ridgeway Primary School is committed to inclusion and equity. We welcome talented applicants from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.