Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Sand Academies Trust, Gloucester, GL2 9EU22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
10 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £70,000.00 - £75,000.00 Annually (Actual) salary depending on experience
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) job summary
About you
As CFO, you will lead the financial strategy of the Trust, ensuring long-term financial sustainability and compliance. You will work closely with the CEO, Trustees, and school leaders to develop innovative solutions that enable us to deliver on our mission. Your expertise will drive financial planning, risk management, and resource allocation, supporting our vision of improving outcomes and opportunities for all children and young people.
The Role
- Develop and deliver the Trust’s financial strategy in line with its strategic goals.
Provide expert advice to the CEO and Trustees on financial matters, including compliance with the DfE and charity regulations.
Knowledge or understanding of academy trust funding.
Lead financial planning, budgeting, and reporting to ensure transparency and accountability.
Oversee the finance team and ensure robust internal controls and processes.
Work with school leaders to maximise the effective use of resources to improve outcomes.
The Trust
We are passionate that every child deserves the very best education. As a partnership we will: improve outcomes, opportunities and life chances for children and young people, offer more / wider support for their families and share and develop staff expertise.
Our Benefits
By joining our team, we can offer you, generous annual leave allowance, generous pension scheme (TPS), Employee Assistance Program & Counselling, Occupational Health Service, Continuing Professional Development and Staff Get Staff Referral Scheme. Applications for flexible working or job share will be considered on an individual basis.
Additional Information
SAND Academies Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. As part of our Safe Recruitment Practice, we will need a completed application form before any offers, and all staff will require safeguarding/pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS, satisfactory health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Please ensure that you have read and understood the information within the Candidate Information pack and understood our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders which can be found on our careers page.
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
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.
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- Multi-academy trust
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