Paul Moralee - Director of Finance & Operations
Paul has 30 years experience of working in schools and serving on SLT. As a Business Manager, he was responsible for all non-curriculum areas of secondary school life with experience in assessing and addressing its administrative needs to improve its profile, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. He has always had an active role in school leadership. His initial background was in structural and civil engineering presenting a broad scope of management opportunities, including multi-storey construction plus the day-to-day administration and running of a company and partnership. Paul is now the Director of Finance and Operations for the Trust and leads the Finance, HR, IT, Facilities and Compliance teams. Paul is able to deliver a number of services across the Bronze, Silver, and Gold agreements supported by the Trust’s Operations Teams and Premium Partners.
Accreditations
SBM of The Year Finalist 2021
Testimonials
I have worked with Chessington School senior leadership team with a previous employer undertaking school support services. I also worked with and have known the Business Manager (Paul Moralee) for over 20 years who is a trusted colleague and ‘knows what he wants’. I found the leadership proactive, dynamic, forward-thinking and open to honest and frank discussions/ideas just as you would expect from a modern thinking academy supporting our future generations of learners. Achieving the ‘very best’ outcome for the school funding and services to enable the pupils to reach their full potential is always at the forefront of any discussions.
Working with Paul to support ECEDAT with data protection has been a professional positive experience. The trust is forward-focused and strives for the highest standards while maintaining a warm and welcoming approach.
In my role of HR Consultant, I have had the pleasure of working with Paul Moralee for over 20 years in the variety of roles he has had and most recently at Every Child Every Day Academy Trust. He has so much experience to draw from that it makes my role of supporting him very easy and particularly given his balanced and fair approach to some complex HR issues. He always has the individual in mind whilst at the same time ensuring the necessary standards are in place and ultimately the needs of the school/s.
I have known and worked with Paul for the last 25 years. Paul was always very easy to work with then and in fact had a high level of technical knowledge himself which was always very useful when trying to explain the current IT issue to me. Paul was very hands-on and liked to understand what was happening with his network and school in order to be able to better make decisions about upgrades and changes going forward. When I moved into Management, I continued to build a good working relationship with Paul and our regular communications enabled me to be able to assign the right level of technical support to him and his school to ensure any issues were resolved first time and with the level of technical expertise needed. I changed employment 5 years ago to move to Turn IT On. Paul agreed to come over to TIO and allow us to provide IT Support to Chessington School with their IT Manager. I have continued to work very closely with Paul and we are now also providing IT Support and Services to the other two secondary schools in the ECEDAT. We still have a regular fortnightly catch up meeting with him and the IT Teams at each school and this is always a mixture of fun, laughter and a run through of current IT issues/plans for discussion with the teams.
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