Schools Finance Team Manager

We are the Education Finance Team, a high-quality finance service working with 200+ schools across Warwickshire. We are passionate about helping schools use their resources to deliver the best possible education for our children. We are looking for a team manager who can blend their ability to build relationships with excellent financial skills and a commercial aptitude for managing a successful traded service. Could this be you? If so, read on… What you'll be doing… You'll lead a group of experienced professionals in providing the advice and support our schools need for strong and compliant financial management. You'll help them to meet their reporting and other statutory requirements, and ensure they have the planning tools they need to safeguard their finances for the future. You'll work closely with colleagues across Finance and the Education to take a collaborative approach to securing the highest possible standards in our schools. As a traded service, you'll also be responsible for making sure the income earned by your service meets agreed annual targets over the medium term. Key Requirements

• Lead the delivery of traded Education Finance Services to schools & academies in line with agreed service level specification.
• Provision of high quality, consistent financial advice, information and support to schools and academies in order to deliver strategic and operational financial planning, monitoring and reporting.
• Responsibility and management of the traded team, including quality assurance of services provided.
• Ensure principles of consistency and standardisation are embedded within the delivery of finance service
• Provision of reporting progress and issues against financial plans including Schools Deficit recovery plans
• Ensuring financial management is carried out in accordance with the financial framework, organisational policies and procedures.
• Advising on the impact of current and new relevant legislative requirements with financial implications for Schools and Academies and ensuring appropriate finance support is provided.
• Supporting financial cycle processes ensuring timetables are adhered to, finance and schools requirements are carried out and deadlines achieved.
• To ensure the effective escalation of financial risk.
• Alignment of team resource to priority areas.
• Ensuring the completion of required service related returns requiring financial information
  
  Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

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At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best. Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund' The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.