Capital and Fixed Asset Finance Business Partner
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
5 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time, Permanent – all year round, 36 hrs per week, 8.45am - 4.30pm Monday -Thursday and 8.45am - 4.15pm Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade PO3/4 £45,746 - £52,187
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a skilled and proactive Capital and Fixed Asset Finance Business Partner to play a key role in ensuring the accurate recording and reporting of all fixed asset expenditure across both the College and the Trust. This pivotal position will support robust management accounts, statutory reporting, and external compliance requirements, providing clear, reliable financial insights that underpin effective decision-making. If you are detail-driven, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to a high-performing finance team within a values-led educational organisation, we invite you to join us.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure accurate recording, reconciliation, and reporting of all fixed asset and capital expenditure across the College & Academy Trust, supporting both management accounts and statutory reporting.
- Prepare and maintain capital expenditure reports, project actuals vs budget, and annual summaries for Finance Board papers, ensuring timely submission of all required returns.
- Manage and reconcile the fixed asset register, working closely with IT and Finance teams to ensure correct capitalisation, depreciation, disposals, and asset transfers.
- Monitor and report capital funding allocations, highlighting risks, managing invoicing requirements, and supporting capital cashflow reporting.
- Support internal and external audit processes, maintaining compliance with financial regulations, policies, and external reporting standards.
Key Requirements:
- Proven experience in finance, particularly in capital accounting or fixed asset management, ideally within an education or not-for-profit environment.
- Strong technical skills in financial reporting, reconciliation, depreciation, and capital expenditure processes.
- Excellent attention to detail with the ability to analyse data, identify risks, and ensure accuracy across financial records and systems.
- Effective communication and partnership skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with Finance, IT, Facilities, and external stakeholders.
- Strong organisational abilities with experience meeting strict deadlines, managing multiple projects, and maintaining high standards of confidentiality and compliance.
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
- Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
- Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
- Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
- Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- MollyKing@orchardhill.ac.uk
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
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