Chief Financial Officer
Net Academies Trust, Harlow, CM18 7HT32 days remaining to apply
Closing date
20 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £82,464.00 - £90,427.00 Annually (FTE) Essex Schools pay scale 15
Chief Financial Officer job summary
Join our Senior Leadership Team
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen at NET Academies Trust for an experienced and highly skilled Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join our Senior Leadership Team.
We are seeking a dedicated and strategic financial leader to guide the Trust through its next phase of development. The CFO will play a pivotal role in ensuring financial excellence and long-term sustainability across our multi-academy trust.
As CFO, you will:
- Provide expert financial leadership and strategic advice
- Ensure sound financial governance and compliance
- Oversee all aspects of financial management across the Trust
- Work closely with the CEO and finance team to support informed decision-making
- Be a key member of the senior leadership team, contributing to the Trust's overall vision and success
This is an exceptional opportunity to make a significant impact in a thriving educational organisation with a strong community, collaborative ethos, and stable financial foundation.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Proven experience in financial leadership at a senior level, preferably in an education or public sector setting
- A recognised professional finance qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CPA)
- Excellent communication and strategic planning skills
- The ability to work collaboratively across teams and provide high-quality financial insight and direction
Why join NET Academies Trust:
NET Academies Trust offers a supportive and innovative environment where leaders are empowered to shape the future. With a strong financial position and a shared commitment to excellence, this is a rewarding opportunity for a visionary financial professional.
Please see the attached CFO Recruitment Pack
In compliance with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CVs cannot be accepted.
NET Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of the Safer Recruitment process all shortlisted applicants will be subject to social media checks. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
NET Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of the Safer Recruitment process all shortlisted applicants will be subject to social media checks. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Net Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Net Academies Trust website
Welcome to NET Academies Trust. We are a DfE approved sponsor of six primary schools in Essex. As a team of schools we work together to promote and lead innovative practice in order to raise educational outcomes for all children- shaping futures.
We are as ambitious for the staff as we are for the children in our schools; providing excellent opportunities for continued professional development and staff wellbeing. We believe that partnerships and collaboration to share best practice are the key to meeting the challenge of raising pupil attainment. We are proud of the commitment within our schools, being acknowledged through national awards (TES Employer of the Year 2018, Place2Be Place2Be Wellbeing in Schools Award 2019).
The Trust provides an effective structure of shared central services, to enable our schools to focus on teaching and learning. This achieves real benefits from school-to-school collaboration and ensuring our schools receive the support they need.
Our culture of ‘children first, people first’ creates effective teamwork and continual improvement. We are passionate about inclusion for both children and staff.
We share our learning with the wider community and take a system leader approach to help improve education beyond our own network. We encourage an outward facing approach with all of our schools, fostering a balance of autonomy and collaboration.
Jo Coton, Chief Executive
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