The Finance Director serves as AISJ's senior financial leader and a strategic partner to the School Director and the Board. This position is responsible for overseeing all financial operations, ensuring the school's financial sustainability, and fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and ethical stewardship. The Finance Director works closely with the Board's Finance Committee and serves as a key advisor on financial policies, long-term planning, and operational efficiency.

This role requires a dynamic leader with expertise in financial management, strong interpersonal and leadership skills, cultural competence, and a commitment to educational excellence.

The Principal of Business and Finance (PBF) is a key senior leadership team member, reporting to the School Director. As the “de facto” chief financial officer, this role ensures sound financial planning, financial sustainability, and strategic growth, fostering a compliant and transparent financial environment. The PBF provides strategic counsel to the Director, Principals, ensuring the efficient execution of the financial plan aligned with the school’s mission and vision.

The PBF is responsible for overseeing all financial strategies, budget management, and investment planning for LISA. This includes financial planning, risk management, cash flow management, cost performance management information and financial reporting. Additionally, the role serves as the primary liaison for key governance committees, specifically Finance.
This includes implementing financial strategies to sustain and enhance the school’s value proposition.

The Director of Business and Operations will build strong relationships across support staff teams to maximize organizational potential in alignment with the school’s mission.

They will demonstrate adept problem-solving, empathetic listening, decisive leadership, and a collaborative approach to teamwork.

As a community school, the successful candidate will embrace their role as a part of the community and will enjoy preparing for and participating in community events just as much as they may enjoy looking at a balance sheet or studying an architectural plan!

They will recognize the significance of a school’s mission, history and community in shaping its value proposition and understand how this influences business planning and operations management.

Accountable to the Head of Finance and Operations, the Director of Finance will carry out high-level accounting and finance duties and work closely with the Head of School.

The successful candidate will:

Be responsible for implementing accounting procedures and utilising financial software to streamline accounting processes. Analyse and present comprehensive data for a range of audiences. Be a member of the School Board Finance Committee