School Business Manager

“We care, we learn, we shine” Ash Grange Nursery and Primary School is seeking a part-time (average 6-10 hours a week) School Business Manager from September 2025 or sooner. We would like to invite a person with finance experience and relevant qualifications to join our wonderful school.  This is a fixed term contract of 12 months initially which may be extended to permanent after this period.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a highly motivated professional individual
• Be a team player who demonstrates honesty and integrity.
• Have proven written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with good negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners/professionals.
• Ability to work on own initiative, with solution focused problem-solving skills.
• Educated to at least ‘A’ level standard, or able to evidence ability at an equivalent level.
• Have professional business qualification to NVQ Level 4, or able to evidence knowledge and understanding of appropriate business disciplines
• Knowledge of principles, practices, policies and procedures relating to business planning and financial and organisational management.
• Have excellent IT skills, experience of or willingness to learn about Xero, Approval Max systems.
• Have high level administrative/organisational and analytical skills.
• Have proven experience of managing a range of projects through to completion, meeting all agreed deadlines.

We offer you:

• An exciting opportunity to work within a richly resourced wonderful school.
• The chance to work with a fantastic team of people, who care passionately about the children and will work hard to improve outcomes for all.
• Professional development opportunities that will see your skills and knowledge grow and develop.
• Flexible working pattern, remote and in person (minimum of 1 part day on site a week)
• Mainly term-time, with some additional commitments at key budget times e.g. at year-end
• Ash Grange is a “good” (Ofsted 2020) Nursery and Primary School (2-11 years) serving a diverse community. We are particularly proud of our Anti-Bullying Charter Gold award, Healthy Schools Gold Award and our Silver UNICEF Rights, Respecting School Award.
• The salary is in the range of S8-S9 (£35,730- £40,296 full time equivalent) pro-rata, by experience and qualification.
• In addition to providing an outstanding working environment, benefits include:
• Well-being package
• Access to the on-site swimming pool
• Centrally located to good transport routes (A3/M3) with free parking on site, the school is also just a five-minute walk from Ash Station (Reading, Ascot, Guildford, Redhill lines – SW Trains, First Great Western).

Application Process:

• Application Close noon on Thursday 10th July 12 noon
• Invitation to second stage of interview process on Friday 11th July
• Second stage comprises the submission of a video on a specified topic tba
• Invitation sent out to successful candidates of stage 2 on Tuesday 15th July; references sought for candidates.
• Formal interview on Thursday 17th July 2025

Mental Health and Wellbeing statement: Ash Grange Primary School has a learning environment that promotes and enhances the positive mental health of the whole school community, recognising that health relationships underpin positive mental health and have a significant impact on learning, and health and wellbeing. We champion the expectation that ‘mental health is everyone’s responsibility.