• Act as the Finance Business Partner for designated areas across MidKent College Training Services, providing strategic financial advice, challenge, and support to Executive Directors, Directors, senior managers, and budget holders.

• Build and maintain effective working relationships across the Group, ensuring financial considerations are embedded within strategic and operational decision-making.

• Lead the preparation of annual budgets, financial forecasts, and medium to long-term financial plans, ensuring assumptions are robust, evidence-based, and aligned with organisational priorities.

• Support the Group Financial Controller in producing accurate and timely monthly management accounts for MKC Training and its collation into the Group, including forecasts and financial commentary, analysing performance, identifying key variances, risks, and opportunities, and recommending appropriate actions.

• Lead budget monitoring and financial review meetings with budget holders, providing meaningful financial insight, challenge, and support to improve financial performance and accountability.

• Prepare and review management accounting adjustments, including journals, accruals, prepayments, recharges, and other month-end accounting activities, ensuring compliance with Group financial procedures and reporting deadlines.

• Work collaboratively with the Chief Finance Officer, Group Financial Controller, Head of Finance, and wider Finance Team to support long-term financial planning, statutory reporting, audit requirements, and continuous improvement across MKC Training and the Group Finance function.

• Prepare financial analysis, modelling, and business cases to support MKC Training strategic projects, tenders, commercial opportunities, capital investment, lease assessments, and other organisational initiatives, ensuring sound financial governance and value for money.

• Maintain accurate staffing establishments and workforce financial forecasts in partnership with the People Team, ensuring staffing changes and workforce plans are appropriately reflected within budgets and forecasts.

• Represent the Finance function at MKC Training Executive Team, Senior Leadership Team, and other management meetings, presenting complex financial information clearly and supporting informed decision-making across MKC Training with consideration of the wider Group model.

• Identify opportunities to improve financial performance, deliver efficiencies, strengthen financial controls, and enhance financial reporting, systems, and business processes.

• Line manage, coach, and develop the Management Accountant, promoting high performance, professional development, and effective delivery of finance services.

• Deputise for the Chief Finance Officer where required, representing the Finance function internally and externally and providing leadership across the wider Group Finance Team.

• Ensure compliance with all relevant financial regulations, accounting standards, funding requirements, Group policies, and audit expectations, maintaining high standards of financial governance and control.

• Undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade of the post as may reasonably be required by the Chief Finance Officer.

Application Requirements

To ensure compliance with safeguarding guidelines, all applicants must complete the application form in full. This includes providing:

• A full employment history from the time you left full-time education, with details of any gaps in employment explained.

• Information on all relevant education and qualifications.

Please note, incomplete applications will not be considered. Your co-operation helps us maintain the highest standards of safety and care for children and young people.

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