Area Finance Manager

The Area Finance Manager role sits within Gloucestershire County Council's Traded School Finance Service. The post holder will lead an established team providing financial advice and support to schools and academies across Gloucestershire.

Key elements of the role include:

• Strategic leadership of school finance services (budget planning, year‑end, systems, risk management)
• Oversight of a commercially sustainable traded service, including service quality and market growth
• Quality‑assuring finance training for Headteachers, Governors, and school staff
• Line management, staff development, and continuous service improvement
• Working with senior leaders and contributing to oversight of schools causing concern
• Maintaining strong customer relationships and championing excellent customer experience

About you: Gloucestershire County Council is seeking an experienced finance professional, ideally with school or public‑sector finance background. Proven ability to lead and develop teams, strong technical finance knowledge combined with commercial awareness, excellent stakeholder management and relationship‑building skills, and a values‑driven approach aligned with public service and education outcomes.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Plus, an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro‑rata for part‑time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• An in‑house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (Eligibility criteria and T&Cs apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network

This is a permanent position working term time only with a requirement to work an additional 3 weeks throughout the year (42 weeks in total). Please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the "Apply Now" Button.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Allana Whelan via allana.whelan@gloucestershire.gov.uk.

Additional Information: To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:- Area Finance Manager - Job Profile.

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.