School Business Manager Full Time

Leicester, Leicestershire
Career Teachers

School Business Manager

permanent post : 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

The full-time salary for this post is 38,296 – 45,495 (depending on experience and qualifications) there is flexibility for the right candidate to choose term time only or full-time working.

Start Date: ASAP

Previous experience of working in school is desirable

Our client is a primary school in Leicestershire and the children come from a wide range of culturally, ethnically and socially diverse backgrounds. The children are hard-working, resilient and confident and staff at the school are friendly, welcoming and dedicated – this is truly a lovely place to work.

Our client is looking to appoint an experienced Level 2 or Level 3 Business Manager to join their friendly team.

The successful candidate should have a proven track record in school based finance and business management, experience in dealing with HR issues, show initiative and be a great team leader who is able to incorporate strategic business development alongside the general day-to-day running of a busy school office.

The successful candidate will:

• Offer strong financial leadership (for example, in: budget management, financial returns, processing orders and invoices, bank and payroll reconciliation, VAT returns, annual CFR return)
• Have experience of using FMS, budget management software and SIMS, or their equivalent
• Maintain positive and effective lines of communication with all service users, suppliers and external agencies
• Have the ability to manage support staff
• Be able to manage and maintain the SCR, visitor checks, DBS checks and personnel files
• Have experience of school HR (for example, absence management, recruitment, contracts, timesheet management)
• Maximise income from external funding agencies
• Provide information, advice and recommendations to the school’s leadership team and contribute to achieving agreed aims and objectives
• Assist in the general day-to-day running of the school and the front office
• Complete administrative tasks (for example, renewing contracts, school admissions, school census, maintaining records, minutes of meetings)
• Implement and promote the school and Local Authority policies and procedures relating to all areas of employment and service delivery
• Oversee GDPR within school and liaise with the Data Protection Officer
• Manage policies and procedures, conforming to statutory guidance/legislation regarding renewals and ratification
• Overview of school health & safety
• Complete any other tasks which may be reasonably expected by the Head Teacher

Candidates should have:

• Experience of working in a busy office
• An ability to work under pressure and using their own initiative to meet deadlines
• An ability to multi-task
• Strong ICT skills
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills
• Working knowledge of Health and Safety at work
• The ability to operate effectively with minimum supervision
• The ability to be flexible, adaptable and innovative

Please contact Reena at Career Teachers on (phone number removed) for more information.

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At Career Teachers we are fully compliant with Agency Worker Regulations, ensuring you receive equal treatment for pay and conditions after a 12 week qualifying period. Please ask for further details.

All quoted rates are inclusive of 12.07% holiday pay.

Important Notice: In order for you to be successful in applying for the above position you should be eligible to work in the UK, or hold a relevant work visa. Safeguarding, quality and integrity are at the heart of what we do. During the application process you are required to:

– Attend an interview in person;

– Give details for us to complete Reference checks;

– Provide an Enhanced DBS disclosure

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within education. We have a policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion, we encourage you to please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you. Career Teachers is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.