Head of Finance
- Employer
- Hays Senior Finance
- Location
- England, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
- Salary
- GBP50000.0 - GBP60000.0 per annum + Up to £60,000
- Closing date
- 13 Feb 2025
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- Sector
- Education and training
- Salary band
- £50,000 - £60,000, £60,000 - £70,000
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Where will they be working
- From our office
Job Details

Your new company
Established education provider with a reputation for excellence, a professional and collaborative team and long-term opportunities to progress.
Your new role
As a qualified accountant, you will have well-developed skills at managing all aspects of financial operations and a nurturing and motivational leadership style. You will demonstrate excellent technical accounting knowledge, and be experienced at preparing for, and leading through, the audit process. As well as this, monthly management accounting duties, management of assets and estates as well as budgeting and forecasting and closely monitoring cashflow. Your skills will include liaison with senior stakeholders and the ability to prepare reports for the board.
What you'll need to succeed
As a qualified accountant with significant experience, you will be on the lookout for a finance operations position which affords autonomy and responsibility. Your engaging communication style will be essential to achieving success. Ideally, a background in the education sector would be helpful. However, this isn't essential. Your experience of managing and developing teams, encouraging and motivating them to meet strategic objectives, and your attention to detail will be utilised extensively. Working to deadlines and preferring an office-based role where you can interact with colleagues at all levels in a modern, forward-thinking and evolving organisation.
What you'll get in return
Generous holidays and pension, a competitive salary and an annual payrise. There are also onsite parking facilities and the organisation is close to transport links. Friendly and sociable team.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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Company
At Hays we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. With over 50 years’ success under our belts and a workforce of 10,000+ people across 32 countries, we’ve evolved to put our customers at the heart of everything we do.
From CFO to Newly Qualified, we work with talented finance professionals and match them with organisations where they can achieve a lasting impact.
So much more than specialist recruiters in accounting and finance, what really sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers. All our consultants have strong relationships across the industry and the support of our extensive global network. That’s why organisations of all types and sizes – from international blue chips to SMEs – trust us to find the people who can help transform their business.
So, whether you want something local or international, permanent, or interim, we have the breadth of coverage and the depth of understanding to help you find it.
We have specialist recruitment teams in the following areas:
- Corporate Governance
- Credit Control
- Part-Qualified Accountant
- Payroll
- Public Practice Accounting
- Public Services Accounting
- Senior Finance – Qualified
- Support, Ledgers & Bookkeeping
- Tax & Treasury
You can rely on us to deliver today and help you plan for tomorrow
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