Trust Finance Manager

Stockport Council; Stockport; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A local educational trust is seeking a Trust Finance Manager to oversee financial processes and ensure compliance with regulations across academies. The candidate will work closely with school leaders to support financial planning and strategic decision-making in an inclusive environment. This full-time role offers a competitive salary of £45,091 - £51,356, with excellent benefits including a pension scheme and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Well-regarded pension scheme

Excellent career development opportunities

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in managing financial processes across educational institutions.
• Strong understanding of the Academies Trust Handbook and compliance requirements.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Headteachers and senior staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly financial processes for the academies.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards.
• Support financial planning and decision making within the Trust.

Skills

Financial management

Strategic decision making

Compliance knowledge

Collaboration

Education

Relevant financial qualification

Job description

ELT Office

Gatley Primary School
SK8 4NB

Contract type: 37 hour per week, Full Year

Salary: NJC MB4 34-40 - Salary £45,091 - £51,356

Closing date: Wednesday 5th November 2025

Shortlisting date: Thursday 6th November 2025

Interview date: Tuesday 11th November 2025

Required from: ASAP

About the Role

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.

Please see the application pack for further details. For a confidential conversation about the role, please contact us on 0161 757 9333 option 1.

About Education Learning Trust

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.

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.

Vision and Values

• Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• School improvement strategies arising from evidence 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

Safeguarding and Equality

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect 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.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered 'protected' and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Please send completed applications to [e-mail]