Chief Financial Officer

Teaching Vacancies; Newquay; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational trust in Newquay is seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead their Finance Services Team. The ideal candidate will be an experienced accountant with a strong record in managing large budgets and strategic financial planning. This role requires a motivational leader who can foster relationships, innovate in financial practices, and ensure compliance. The trust offers a competitive salary, wellbeing services, training opportunities, and a commitment to professional growth for its staff.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Local Government Pension Scheme

Wellbeing services

Discounts with retailers

CPD and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Record of managing large and complex budgets.
• Ability to foresee future difficulties and navigate around them.
• Commitment to maximising funding for educational success.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance Services Team to ensure effective budget management.
• Establish strong relationships and provide direction for the team.
• Innovate while ensuring compliance with financial regulations.

Skills

Leadership

Financial management

Strategic thinking

Team motivation

Forensic attention to detail

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you our next financial mastermind?

We are looking for an excellent finance leader to be our next CFO. You will join our trust at a pivotal time; a time where school budgets are being evermore squeezed and a time where the need to make our money go further, and work harder for us, has never been more important.

About our Shared Services

Our trust has a centralised Finance Services Team, supporting our schools to ensure that they are appropriately resourced, and ensuring that our trust remains compliant and viable. This team sits within our wider Shared Services Team that performs a wide range of functions and services across a number of areas including finance, estates, IT, and HR, as well as our English Hub and Teaching School Hub (both linked to Trenance Learning Academy), and our Initial Teacher Education programme, KITE (Kernow Initial Teacher Education).

About you

You will be a phenomenal finance leader. A leader that is able to quickly establish themselves as a team player; a leader who is a motivator with the ability to forge strong relationships and provide clear direction in order to secure success for everyone. You will dream big and achieve big; by ensuring that our finances are superbly managed you will open up futures for all our children.

Our next CFO will be an experienced and highly qualified accountant with a demonstrable record of managing large and complex budgets. You will be able to evidence the ability to foresee future difficulties and barriers, as well as being able to bring a strategic mind to navigate successfully around these. Our next CFO will have the courage to innovate, but will also have the wisdom to ensure that we always operate within tight financial regulations. The successful candidate will want to make a difference; they will be committed to maximising our funding to ensure that every child, in every school, is able to achieve their best – after all, we are Building Excellent Schools Together.

If you think that you can bring financial brilliance to our trust and lead our Finance Services Team with both love and rigour, then we would love to hear from you. If you think that you can bring innovation, strategy, and a forensic eye for detail then we would love to hear from you. If you think that you are a team player, a motivator, and an inspirational coach, then we would love to hear from you.

What the school offers its staff

As well as offering great schools to work in, wonderful children to work with, and fantastic colleagues to work alongside, our Trust is committed to providing colleagues with other benefits that make your employment with Kernow Learning the best it can be. We offer:

• A competitive salary and membership of Local Government Pension Scheme
• A real commitment to wellbeing, including access to 24/7 wellbeing services and employee assistance programme
• Access to discounts with national and local retailers and service providers
• A range of CPD and training opportunities, both internally and externally, learning from local and national speakers and specialists to support your professional growth
• The support and skills of our networks of colleagues both within our schools and our Shared Services teams

Commitment to safeguarding

Kernow Learning is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and follows the Safer Recruitment process; the successful applicant will be expected to share this commitment and will be subject to checks including an enhanced DBS, prohibition and S128 and online check. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all. Kernow Learning is not a sponsoring organisation for overseas candidates. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.