Ealing Council is a diverse and ambitious organisation that serves one of the largest and most multi-cultural boroughs in London.
We are committed to improving the lives of our residents by building strong and connected communities. We aim to create an environment where every child can reach their potential and achieve their dreams.
To help us achieve this, we are we are looking to recruit an experienced professional with a strong finance background to join our School Bursarial Service as a Senior Support Officer on an 18 month fixed term contract.
The School Bursarial Service is a team of dedicated experienced education finance specialists, providing a client focused traded service covering operational finance support and strategic finance consultancy.
The team support a large number of local authority maintained schools across the borough, offering a range of flexible and comprehensive support options tailored to their needs. We work across all ages, phases and types of maintained education provision.
The School Bursarial Service (SBS) is committed to delivering efficient, professional, flexible, front-line support from a team with diverse experience and qualifications.
As a School Bursarial Service Senior Support Officer, you will:
Provide essential front-line support to schools in collecting, collating, maintaining, analysing and reporting on finance data, and monitoring outcomes in relation to schools’ financial performance.
Design and deliver impactful training session and assist the Head of Service in the development of the service, its systems and processes.
Support schools in producing and interpreting both financial and non-financial information, meeting statutory reporting requirements, forecasting, modelling and planning for the impact of internal and external risk factors and opportunities across all aspects of income and expenditure.
Provide strategic advice on funding streams, sustainable budget planning, benchmarking, financial efficiencies and deficit recovery planning.
Ensure continuous development so that our practice is of a high quality. We make ongoing improvements to our service, strengthening the way we work to increase levels of financial knowledge, sustainability and resilience within schools.
Collaborate and work in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders. Partnership working with schools and other local authority services and department is at the heart of our approach.
Where we work
We try to go to the office at Ealing Headquarters at least once a week, and some of our work is done in the schools of the borough of Ealing.
Get in touch if you would like to know more.
If you are interested in the role and working for Ealing, we would love to receive your application. If you would like an informal discussion about the role before you apply, contact Kim Price via kprice@ealing.gov.uk.
This post is subject to Ealing Council’s enhanced vetting process.
Closing date: Monday 21 July 2025
Interviews: to be held week commencing 4th August 2025.
