Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Experience in successful financial leadership in an educational environment.
- Experience in delivering statutory accounts, monthly management accounts, annual budgets, and financial forecasts.
- Strong IT and reporting skills using primarily Microsoft products.
- Monitoring, reporting, and advising on financial strategies that deliver strong financial health.
- Experience of working with senior managers to develop financial strategies, strategic objectives, and business plans.
- Providing financial advice to staff across an organization.
- Developing the financial capabilities of budget holders.
- Experience working with external stakeholders such as bankers, auditors, and funding agencies.
- Experience in contributing to the improvement of systems and processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
- Explanation of complex financial information to staff at all levels.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- A collaborative leader who enjoys working within teams and jointly owning challenges and issues.
- A strong financial leader who is able to act swiftly to address issues and concerns.
- A team player who is able to cope with ambiguity and make sense of complexity.
- A forward-looking individual with the ability to identify opportunities and identify risks before they occur.
- Strong communication skills
- The ability to translate strategy into operational plans and to provide clarity to others.
- The ability to lead others with clarity, energy, and enthusiasm, commanding respect across the organization.
- A deep commitment to equality of opportunity, diversity, and the well-being and safety of staff and students.
- A resilient operator with strong problem-solving abilities.
- Commitment to the highest professional and personal standards of work, behavior and conduct.
- A strong passion, commitment, and empathy for education, students, and young people.
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