Chief Financial Officer

Accomplish Multi Academy Trust Limited, Wakefield, WF2 0NP

16 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  17 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £75,893.00 Annually (FTE)

Chief Financial Officer job summary

As Chief Financial Officer, you will:

Provide strategic financial leadership across Accomplish Multi Academy Trust.

Lead the Trust's financial strategy, ensuring long-term sustainability, financial resilience and value for money.

Provide expert financial advice and strategic guidance to the Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trustees and Executive Leadership Team.

Ensure the highest standards of financial governance, compliance, audit and risk management across the Trust.

Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing finance team that delivers an efficient, proactive and customer-focused service to our schools and central teams.

Oversee all aspects of budgeting, forecasting, statutory accounts, financial reporting, procurement, cash flow and financial planning.

Lead the financial management, monitoring and reporting of the Trust's externally funded programmes, including the Jerry Clay English Hub, the Early Years Stronger Practice Hub, the Accomplish Great Things Together (AGTT) professional development programme and future strategic initiatives, ensuring effective oversight of all grant funding, income and expenditure.

Identify opportunities to maximise resources, improve efficiencies and deliver innovative financial solutions that support the Trust's strategic priorities.

Play a pivotal role in supporting Trust growth, undertaking financial due diligence for new schools and ensuring robust financial planning for future expansion.

Build strong relationships with school leaders, Trustees, auditors, funding bodies and external partners, ensuring finance is recognised as a strategic enabler of educational excellence

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Accomplish Multi Academy Trust Limited

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/accomplish-multi-academy-trust-limited

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