Trust Finance Manager

Teaching Vacancies; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Trust Finance Manager to manage financial processes and ensure compliance with the Academies Trust Handbook. This role involves strategic planning support and partnership with senior staff. The position offers excellent benefits, career development opportunities, and a commitment to safeguarding children's welfare. Applicants must submit a letter detailing their qualifications and attributes for the role.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Well-regarded pension scheme

Support for health and wellbeing

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in financial management within an educational context.
• Strong understanding of compliance with the Academies Trust Handbook.
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly financial processes for the academies.
• Ensure financial integrity and compliance.
• Support strategic decision making with financial planning.

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

As the Trust Finance Manager, you will be an integral part of the team responsible for ensuring high standards of financial integrity across the Trust. You will manage the monthly financial processes required of the academies, ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Academies Trust Handbook, play a significant part in the financial planning and partner with the Headteachers and other senior staff to ensure effective strategic decision making.

This role will work closely with schools within the Trust, helping to identify best practice and implement new standardised processes and procedures. Please submit a word-processed letter (maximum 1,000 words) with your application, detailing how you meet the post criteria and the knowledge, skills, and attributes you would bring.

What the school offers its staff

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

Commitment to safeguarding

ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002. All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.