Senior Finance Business Partner
| Posting date: | 21 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton, Not recorded, SM1 1DA |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d623143f-b286-4908-b385-23f4642502f7 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will oversee and be professionally responsible for the provision of a high-quality financial service to the academies the post-holder is accountable for. This post is central to supporting the trust and its academies to achieve their strategic aims and objectives, via effective and efficient management of financial resources to ultimately transform the lives of young people. The responsibilities for this role are wide and varied and will include:
• working closely with School Leadership Teams to discuss financial strategy, management accounts, budgets & forecasts and to provide financial and commercial advice.
• working with trust finance colleagues to drive continuous improvement in controls, finding efficiencies in processes and enhancing financial analysis which adds value.
• working closely with other trust departments such as HR, Estates and Procurement to align staffing, estates and supplier strategies with financial plans.
Requirements:
• Proven experience of finance business partnering, preferably within the Education or public sector.
• Demonstrable knowledge of financial management, budget planning, analysis and reporting.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a desire to challenge the status quo.
• Excellent communication skills with proven ability in working with non-financial stakeholders
• Experience of line management and an interest in people development.
• Proficiency with Microsoft packages and ability to learn finance systems required.
• Flexible, team-player with a can-do attitude to providing the best service to schools possible.
What the school offers its staff
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.
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.
As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will oversee and be professionally responsible for the provision of a high-quality financial service to the academies the post-holder is accountable for. This post is central to supporting the trust and its academies to achieve their strategic aims and objectives, via effective and efficient management of financial resources to ultimately transform the lives of young people. The responsibilities for this role are wide and varied and will include:
• working closely with School Leadership Teams to discuss financial strategy, management accounts, budgets & forecasts and to provide financial and commercial advice.
• working with trust finance colleagues to drive continuous improvement in controls, finding efficiencies in processes and enhancing financial analysis which adds value.
• working closely with other trust departments such as HR, Estates and Procurement to align staffing, estates and supplier strategies with financial plans.
Requirements:
• Proven experience of finance business partnering, preferably within the Education or public sector.
• Demonstrable knowledge of financial management, budget planning, analysis and reporting.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a desire to challenge the status quo.
• Excellent communication skills with proven ability in working with non-financial stakeholders
• Experience of line management and an interest in people development.
• Proficiency with Microsoft packages and ability to learn finance systems required.
• Flexible, team-player with a can-do attitude to providing the best service to schools possible.
What the school offers its staff
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.
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.