New Virtual Finance Department and Virtual School Business Manager services available for smaller schools. Contact us to learn more.
JEM Business Consulting Limited
Meet the team:
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Our company was founded by Rona Metters who operates as a Consultant School Business Manager.
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Rona is an experienced and qualified School Business Manager with a background in banking/financial services, compliance, routines and protocols are ingrained. Rona has worked in Cambridgeshire since 2012 and initially worked as a School Business Manager for a multi-site EBD Special Secondary School, working with the Senior Leadership team to take the school out of Special Measures in 2016, HMI made specific reference to the quality of the data maintained. After the school transferred to an Academy, Rona set up JEM Business Consulting in 2016 and has been offering support across Cambridgeshire. Rona has worked with a variety of schools over the years including Special, Primary and Secondary., woorking with local authority and academy schools alike, she can provide you with a wealth of work experiences, her particular interests are:
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support for requires improvement/special measures,
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support with deficit budgets
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support with routines and protocols
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support with audit
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support with investigating suspected fraud
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​Rona has recently undergone training via Mental Health First Aid England and Listening Lantern Mental Health Training, to become a Mental Health First Aider, crucial to supporting wellbeing in the school workplace. #MentalHealthFirstAid
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Emma Middleton is our Office Manager.
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Emma has a background in industry and has come to education in recent years, like a lot of us after having her children. Emma is based in our Office and she brings her bubbly personality into the office and keeps us all organised with her friendly, outgoing nature. Emma also provides remote support for schools with finance and HR Admin.
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Maxine Jones is our new Consultant Finance and HR Administrator.
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Maxine has worked in the Education sector since 2016. Maxine has had lots of school office experience and is used to working compliantly, like all of the JEM Business Consulting staff she is up to date with the all relevant safeguarding training.
Maxine is very creative and has a background in graphic design! At home, Maxine continues the creative energy and she likes to sew garments, paint landscapes. and make her own jewelry. She's also fond of crosswords and word puzzles.
Areas of support offered include:
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Budget Management
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Business Support - School Business Manager/Bursar
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Finance Processing and Management - Finance Administrator
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Health and Safety
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Human Resources
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Infrastructure
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Mentoring/Training
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Month End/Year End returns
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Personnel File Audit
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Policies
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Premises Management
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Review Processes and Procedures
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SCR Audit
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Training and Mentoring​
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Website Audit ​