Chief Financial Officer
The Keys Academy Trust, Reading, RG6 1EYThis job expired on 19 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
19 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 June 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
- £57,179.00 - £62,667.00 Annually (FTE) 0.8 FTE , Grade 11 SCP 47-52 (subject to pay body review), Actual Salary £45,743 to £50,134
Chief Financial Officer job summary
The purpose of the role is:
- To lead The Keys Academy Trust (TKAT) day to day financial operations and performance of the Trust and to undertake the role of Chief Financial Officer as outlined in the Academy Trust Handbook
- To take the responsibility to ensure that the Trust’s resources are managed efficiently, ethically, professionally, with integrity and confirming to all internal and external regulatory requirements and in a sustainably sound manner
- To monitor financial performance against expectations and external benchmarks
- To ensure that both the Trust and schools in the Trust adhere to all deadlines for submission of returns and publication of statutory information.
- To contribute to the vision, values and development and success of the Trust
The successful applicant will:
- Have a recognised accountancy qualification e.g. ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA
- Have experience of working within a Multi Academy Trust
- Have an understanding of company and charity finances including governance, accounting and reporting requirement
- Have an understanding of the educational agenda including current national policies and the statutory and legal framework governing multi-academy trusts
- Have the ability to respond to changing priorities and demands
The Keys Academy Trust offers:
- A family of distinctive schools rooted at the heart of the communities they serve
- Attractive pension scheme
- Staff Wellbeing package
The role is based in the Trust Central Team at Earley St Peter’s CE Primary School and there will be a requirement to travel to the schools across the Wokingham/Bracknell area.
Visits to the Trust are warmly encouraged. Please contact enquiries@keysacademytrust.org for more information and to arrange a visit or to discuss the post with the CEO. Applications must be submitted on My New Term. No CVs will be accepted and no agencies. Applications will be reviewed on receipt.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced criminal records check.
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.
About The Keys Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
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