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The School requires:
Head of Finance
Competitive Salary
8.45am to 5.45pm, Monday to Friday, all year round
35 days' holiday per year, including bank holidays
Discounted annual membership for New Hall Sport Club
Lunch without charge in term time
Excellent benefits & CPD
We are seeking an experienced Head of Finance to lead and manage the finances and operations of New Hall School Trust during an exciting period of growth. This hands-on senior role requires strong strategic, financial, and risk-management expertise, proven leadership in complex organisations, and the ability to drive efficiency and business improvement. The successful candidate will motivate and manage a large finance team, support the Principal and Governing Body, and help shape income-diversification strategy. A proactive, values-led approach is essential; education-sector experience is advantageous but not required.
New Hall School offers an exceptional working environment, set in a stunning Grade I listed building that is the former Tudor palace of Beaulieu. With a staff of around 300, New Hall is a warm, welcoming and supportive community. Beaulieu Park railway station is now open at the foot of New Hall's private road approach, The Avenue, with journey times of 30 minutes to Stratford and 38 minutes to London Liverpool Street.
Application closing date: midday, Monday 5 January 2026
JOB ID: NH0643
For further details and to apply, please visit: www.newhallschool.co.uk/job-opportunities
New Hall is committed to safeguarding students. There will be an enhanced DBS check prior to appointment.
Information about the School
New Hall is a Catholic independent boarding & day school for girls and boys aged 1-18. New Hall School operates the highly successful 'diamond model', where students are educated in co-educational classes from ages 1 to 11 and at Sixth Form. However, from ages 11 to 16 they are taught in single-sex lessons. Click on one of the four diamonds below to find out more about our divisions.
The main benefits of the 'diamond model' and five years of single-sex teaching, derive from the ability to tailor pastoral and academic provision more sensitively and expertly to the needs of young people going through the physical, emotional and social upheaval of adolescence. Young teenagers are liberated from the negative peer pressure of having to perform in mixed classes. The gender stereotyping of subjects is also removed. Girls and boys follow an identical curriculum and do not learn to perceive subjects as being more suited to either girls or boys.
The Sixth Form experience at New Hall is about expanding students' horizons, both in their specialist areas of study and, more generally, in terms of their personal development.
From the moment New Hall students first travel up the mile-long, tree-lined avenue that leads to the grand façade of the former Tudor palace, they will be given individual opportunities to grow, learn, be challenged and to develop into confident young men and women. New Hall is set in an idyllic and convenient location, on the outskirts of the City of Chelmsford, Essex, just 30 minutes by train from London and within easy reach of all major London airports.
As a Catholic independent boarding & day school, at New Hall with every student we aim to educate the whole person: academically, creatively and socially, in a community which also nurtures the spiritual dimensions of human life.