Bath College - Chief Financial Officer Somerset Competitive Salary + benefits

Permanent Somerset Competitive Salary + benefits

We are delighted to be working with Bath College to recruit its next Chief Financial Officer. This is an incredibly exciting time to join the college, during an important period of change requiring strong financial leadership that will inform and shape the college's long term sustainability and growth agenda. You will have overall responsibility for the financial effectiveness of the organisation, ensuring operations and infrastructure functions are robust, efficient and able to support the continued development of the college, aligned to the needs of the communities and employers across the southwest region.

Reporting to the Principal & Chief Executive, you will lead the finance function, ensuring the organisation's financial integrity through enhanced business planning, forecasting, financial control, and reporting. You will provide day to day line management for the finance department, with a keen focus on capital expenditure, risk management and compliance, and the analysis of key management information to shape and inform performance.

You will be a qualified, commercially orientated finance professional with a wealth of strategic experience, ideally gained within a further education context. With strong technical expertise, you will have excellent analytical and planning skills and be fully conversant with complex revenue streams and capital investment initiatives. You will possess excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, with the capacity to engage at all levels across and beyond the organisation, to shape the strategic challenges through deliverable and workable solutions.