Director of Finance/CFO

The Blue Kite Academy Trust, Swindon, SN2 1NX

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  20 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 November 2025

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: £73,000.00 - £78,000.00 Monthly

Director of Finance/CFO job summary

Director of Finance/CFO

Salary: £73,000 - £78,000 pa

Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

The Blue Kite Academy Trust is seeking a dynamic Director of Finance/Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to play a pivotal role in shaping the Trust’s financial future. This is a great opportunity to join a values-driven Trust at an exciting stage in our development. You will be a key member of the Trust’s Leadership Team, working closely with the CEO and other Leaders to develop and implement strategy and to resource and deliver the organisation’s strategic objectives sustainably.

We are looking for a Director of Finance who can demonstrate the following qualities:

Exhibits the highest standards of probity and integrity at all times.

• A collaborative and approachable leader who builds strong working relationships and embraces new systems and processes to optimise ways of working.
• A strong understanding of the education sector, ideally gained through a senior executive role within another Multi Academy Trust and/or Local Authority Education team.
• A strategic thinker who can produce accurate and insightful papers for the CEO and Trustees and articulate complex financial information with clarity.
• A leader with a can-do attitude who views finance as an enabler rather than a barrier, and who applies creative and innovative thinking to strategic planning and problem solving.
• Always remains calm, measured and well-organised, yet authoritative and decisive when required.

You will lead our central finance team with an emphasis on a proactive and customer-focused service. As well as ensuring the financial health of our organisation, you will bring experience of lateral thinking when it comes to realising the financial opportunities that we have within our Trust.

The Director of Finance is directly responsible to the Chief Executive Officer, who is the Accounting Officer for the Trust, and is ultimately responsible for the proper financial conduct of the institution. You will provide advice on strategic financial issues and be responsible for financial management and for the leadership and management.

Further information can be found in the attached recruitment pack.

Closing date: 9am Thursday 20th November 2025

Interview date: Tuesday 25th November 2025

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 The Blue Kite Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-blue-kite-academy-trust

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