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Join Teach First as a Reporting & Management Accountant to champion educational equality and impact the future
Overview
Salary
£42237
Location
East Midlands (Nottingham); East of England (Norwich); London; North East (Newcastle Upon Tyne); North West (Manchester); South Coast (Bournemouth); South East (Kent); South West (Bristol); West Midlands (Birmingham); Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary: Teach First is a passionate charity striving to level the educational playing field for children across the UK. With a goal of ensuring fair education for all, Teach First is on the move towards creating lasting change, offering an inspiring opportunity for those eager to make a real difference in society.
- Role Summary:
- Perform strategic budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
- Participate in organisation-wide projects to drive process improvements.
- Collaborate with program teams to enhance decision-making and add value.
- Role Requirements:
- Must be a qualified accountant (CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA, ACA) or have equivalent experience.
- Should possess the ability to clearly communicate complex issues.
- Need to effectively plan and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
- Must maintain a strategic outlook while being attentive to details.
- Benefits:
- 27 days holiday per annum.
- Participation in a pension scheme with up to 6% employer contribution.
- Life assurance, income protection, and private healthcare.
- Access to a flexible benefits platform, including various insurances and subsidized memberships.
Teach First is a charity organization committed to building a fair education for all children. We are making progress every day towards a better future, but we need more help to take on this big challenge. As a Reporting & Management Accountant, you will provide strategic analysis to support and challenge our stakeholders in making the right decisions for our growing organisation. We are a critical friend to the organisation, ensuring that we are maximising the impact of our income and expenditure for our social mission.
The role entails budgeting, forecasting and management reporting as well as representing our team in organisation-wide projects and driving consistent improvement in processes to add value to Teach First. You will understand and support the programmes we work with, adding value to decisions.
Job requirements include being a qualified accountant (CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA or ACA), or qualified by experience. You should be able to convey complex issues with clarity, brevity and confidence, plan and prioritise your workload to ensure that deadlines are achieved, and maintain a broad and strategic perspective and an awareness of detail.
Benefits include 27 days holiday per annum, participation in the pension scheme via Salary Exchange (with an employer contribution of up to 6%), life assurance, income protection and private healthcare. Through our flexible benefits platform access to subsidised dental membership, health screening, discounted gym membership, travel insurance, Give As You Earn and the option to buy annual leave.
All roles require that the successful applicant and Teach First make a joint application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a background check. This role is based within the UK and every employee is required to supply the appropriate documents to prove that they have the right to work in the UK before and where applicable throughout their employment with Teach First.
