Finance Manager
Salary
Band 6: FTE £45,000-£48,000 p.a.
Date Ending
August 24, 2023
Location: Hybrid working usually comprising 2 days per week in our Head Office in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and 3 days of home working
Are you an experienced finance professional looking for your next move? HFL Education offers you the chance to contribute to a high-performing team focussed on delivering services to schools and education settings in Hertfordshire.
We are seeking a qualified accountant with experience of working in a commercial or not-for-profit environment who will relish the chance to make a difference in our schools-owned business. You will be a proven team player who would like to work as part of a small finance team.
This Finance Manager role reports directly to the CFO and provides the opportunity to work across the business in a Finance Business Partner capacity. This will get you close to a variety of business units and you will provide financial support to help ensure these business units are set for growth.
You will also be responsible for ensuring that appropriate financial controls are in place across the company, that HMRC submissions are accurate and timely and that the year-end closedown and audit are completed.
Our ‘working from anywhere’ approach provides colleagues the opportunity to work flexibly in line with their role requirements, typically spending 2 days a week in our Stevenage office with the remainder remote. As there is a permanent home working element to this role, you will need to ensure you are equipped for home working.
Benefits: a generous employer pension contribution, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 31 days after five-years) or the equivalent paid for Term Time employees, family-friendly policies, hybrid working, paid mileage, a cycle to work scheme, onsite charging points for electric vehicles, access to mental health and wellbeing support, company performance bonus, professional development opportunities, benefit schemes for discounts and cashback offers, and more.
How to apply Would you like to know more information about this opportunity? If so, further information can be found in the job outline. You can also contact Andrew Griffiths via email at Andrew.griffiths@hfleducation.org who would be happy to chat to you.
To apply, email hfl.recruitment@hfleducation.org with a detailed CV along with a cover letter to include responses to the following questions:
1. What tactics do you use to identify and to quantify financial risk within a business or organisation?
2. Which 3 of your personal qualities do you believe would make you successful in this role?
As part of our move towards eradicating unconscious bias within the recruitment process, we will be anonymising your forms.
For recruitment queries, our Central Recruitment Team can also be contacted on the hfl.recruitment email address above. We would love to hear from you.
Closing Date: Thursday 24th August 2023 at 5pm
Interview Date: Friday 1st September 2023 in Stevenage.
This job advert may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. To make sure you don’t miss out on this great opportunity, please submit your application as soon as you can.
We are committed towards becoming an anti-racist organisation, and our recruitment statement is set out below in support of this.
HFL is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We insist on the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and will never condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
HFL is also equally committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and we encourage you to view our Anti-racist position statement which gives clarity on our anti-racist stance. In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in our organisation, our education system and in all aspects of our society. Therefore, for recruitment into any HFL post, where we have 2 or more candidates of equal merit, candidates with protected characteristics will be given advantage over candidates without such characteristics. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘tie-breaker’ and is referred to as ‘positive action’ in the Equality Act 2010.
To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.
