About the role:
Are you a School Finance Officer or School Business Professional looking for the next step in your education finance career?
We're looking for a Finance Consultant to join our Finance Services team. This role is ideal for an education finance professional who is ready to broaden their experience beyond a single school or trust, work with a diverse range of customers and develop their consultancy skills within a supportive and experienced team.
Working with both maintained schools and academy customers, you'll provide financial management support across the full financial cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, month-end and year-end processes, management reporting and practical financial advice. You'll help customers make informed financial decisions, maintain strong financial controls and achieve their objectives. While this is a consultancy role, you'll also work collaboratively across Service Desk and Processing Service activities, ensuring customers receive a responsive and high-quality service.
You'll join a knowledgeable and supportive team of Finance Consultants who work closely together to share expertise, solve problems and deliver excellent outcomes for customers. Although this is a remote role, we come together once a term at our London head office to collaborate, learn from one another and strengthen team relationships.
What you'll be doing
- Managing and supporting a portfolio of maintained schools, academies and multi-academy trusts.
- Supporting customers with budget setting, forecasting and financial planning.
- Delivering month-end and year-end finance activities, including reconciliations, journals, working papers and financial reporting.
- Producing and reviewing management reports, budget monitoring reports and financial analysis.
- Providing practical finance advice and guidance to customers.
- Building trusted relationships and acting as a key point of contact for your portfolio.
- Supporting customers in the effective use of finance and budgeting systems.
- Responding to customer queries and Service Desk tickets.
- Contributing to the Processing Service where required.
- Working with colleagues to continuously improve customer outcomes and service delivery.
