Finance Manager

Are you a proven Finance Manager, or experienced accountant?

Are you passionate about making an impact on the lives of highly complex and vulnerable neurodivergent children, by supporting schools and services through good financial management?

Do you excel in leading a team to ensure balanced outgoings and incomings, ensuring the organisation is able to make sustained growth as a Social Enterprise?

We are seeking an experienced & qualified Accountant, with a proven track record as a Finance Manager or accounting supervisor, who has worked within a similar sector or social enterprise.

Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams across the organisation, you will assist senior management in making critical business decisions through the preparation, analysis and presentation of key financial data. This work will support these decisions through the preparation of management accounts, forecasts, budgets and risk analysis.

The individual will play a key role in identifying risks to budgets, potential cost savings and ensure cost effectiveness so that TCES can appropriately invest in our pupils, staff, resources and facilities as a registered social enterprise.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

• A champion of professional financing with similar values to ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!
• Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding professionalism.
• Be a Qualified Accountant (e.g. ACA / ACCA / CIMA).
• Experience of driving high quality financial data analysis, risk management and budgeting.
• Proven skills in data analysis to inform strategic planning and solution focussed work.
• Experience in delivering management accounts on a schedule.
• Proactive and innovative, mentoring team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently.
• Delivering technology solutions to continuously develop user experience.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES)

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education.

TCES pupils learn at one of our two main schools, at our Nurture Primary school, through our Create in the Community service or within our National Online School; our Create services support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with highly differentiated and personalised holistic therapeutic education programmes developed for each pupil focusing on development milestones. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main school, our Sixth Form, or into mainstream provisions.

In return we offer:

• Competitive salary & commission, and terms and conditions, with 25 days annual leave.
• An opportunity to join a leading provider of specialist education in one of the most rewarding sectors whilst directly contributing to the positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC.
• Comprehensive induction process, and excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development. Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.
• A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform.
• Gym & Active Health discounts.

To apply:

Please apply by completing an application form online. Shortlisted candidates will need to complete a formal application form as per safer recruitment practices in Education.

TCES is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.

The Complete Education Solution is an equal opportunity employer.