Location
London

Hours
Fixed Term Contract – 18 Months

Salary
£52,584

About the Role
Ealing Council is a diverse and ambitious organisation that serves one of the largest and most multi-cultural boroughs in London. We are committed to improving the lives of our residents by building strong and connected communities. We aim to create an environment where every child can reach their potential and achieve their dreams. To help us achieve this, we are looking to recruit an experienced professional with a strong finance background to join our School Bursarial Service as a Senior Support Officer on an 18 month fixed term contract. The School Bursarial Service is a team of dedicated experienced education finance specialists, providing a client focused traded service covering operational finance support and strategic finance consultancy. The team supports a large number of local authority maintained schools across the borough, offering a range of flexible and comprehensive support options tailored to their needs. We work across all ages, phases and types of maintained education provision. As a School Bursarial Service Senior Support Officer, you will provide essential front-line support to schools in collecting, collating, maintaining, analysing and reporting on finance data, and monitoring outcomes in relation to schools’ financial performance. You will design and deliver impactful training sessions and assist the Head of Service in the development of the service, its systems and processes. Support schools in producing and interpreting both financial and non-financial information, meeting statutory reporting requirements, forecasting, modelling and planning for the impact of internal and external risk factors and opportunities across all aspects of income and expenditure. Provide strategic advice on funding streams, sustainable budget planning, benchmarking, financial efficiencies and deficit recovery planning. Ensure continuous development so that our practice is of a high quality. We make ongoing improvements to our service, strengthening the way we work to increase levels of financial knowledge, sustainability and resilience within schools. Collaborate and work in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders. Partnership working with schools and other local authority services and departments is at the heart of our approach.

Experience
Experience in finance and education sectors is essential.

About you
You are a dedicated professional with a strong finance background, capable of providing strategic advice and support to schools. You possess excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications
A relevant finance qualification or equivalent experience is required for this position.