37 days remaining to apply

  • Closing date

    31 August 2025 at 12am (midnight)

  • Date listed

    21 July 2025

Job details

Job role

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Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Up to £60,000 (for 0.6 FTE)

Director of Finance job summary

Initio Learning Trust is looking for a Director of Finance to join our fantastic Executive team. Could this be you?

This role is offered on a Permanent basis, with an approximate start date of 01/11/2025.

Salary, up to £60,000 per annum (for 0.6 FTE); (£100,000 FTE equivalent).

The Director of Finance will lead and oversee the financial management and strategy of the multi-academy trust, ensuring fiscal health, compliance, and sustainability. This role is pivotal in driving financial planning, efficiency, and resource allocation across the trust to support its educational objectives and long-term growth. It will report directly to the CEO and be an active participant in the Trust Executive team.

The finance department is divided into two areas of responsibility;

  • Financial planning – Led by a Senior Finance Business Partner (who has deputising responsibilities for your role) who is supported by two Finance Business Partners. This team focuses on working with school leaders and budget holders to ensure forecasts are accurate and secure financial strategies are in place to ensure sustainability in all parts of the Trust.

  • Financial control – Led by the Financial Controller, this team comprises an Accounting Technician, Finance Officer and two part time Finance Assistants. The team is responsible for ensuring good financial controls are in place, producing the monthly accounts and working with auditors to deliver the annual financial statements.

The role is being offered to work flexibly across the year as a 0.6 FTE basis. This will allow the successful candidate to consider how they want to facilitate the working arrangements; this could include but not limited to;

  • Working reduced hours outside term time

  • Managing own diary to enable the role to have a flexible approach to times worked during the day

  • Hybrid working from office and home

Full time options would be considered for the right candidate to take on additional areas of responsibility.

The role will attract the following benefits:

  • Up to £60k salary (based on 0.6 FTE); (£100,000 FTE equivalent)

  • Access to the defined benefit local government pension scheme

  • Access to all Initio employee benefits as outlined below

  • Annual leave entitlement of 5 weeks per year plus bank holidays

Please refer to the attached candidate brief for more details about the role.

The Trust has an interim Director of Finance in post until December, it is strongly recommended to arrange an informal conversation with him to discuss your potential interest in the role. Please contact Jo Dickinson, PA to Executive team, via email to arrange this on info@initiolearning.org

About our Central Team

Inito’s central team consists of groups of specialists who provide the support, guidance and resources to enable our schools to focus on what they do best; delivering excellence in education.

Please visit our Trust website for a taste of what working in our central team looks like https://www.initiolearning.org/

Initio Learning Trust offers a welcoming and supportive environment and can provide:

  • a genuine commitment to supporting professional development

  • a supportive and flexible working environment which offers equal opportunities for all

  • free onsite parking

  • a range of employee benefits including Cycle to Work and Health Cash Plan

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

Initio Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

In line with current safer recruitment guidance, we may collect further information for applicants who are shortlisted for interview including criminal record and social media checks, references and verification of qualifications.

All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2023).

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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About Queen Elizabeth's School

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 13 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1452 pupils enrolled
Age range
13 to 18
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Queen Elizabeth’s School, located in Wimborne, is a coeducational Church of England, Comprehensive Upper School within the Initio Learning Trust.

There is a strong commitment to comprehensive education and a focus on creating an environment that supports continual school improvement and the attainment of all students.

Our vision is linked to a commitment to hope for all students and which permeates all aspects of our school and is underpinned by the Trust's values of Collaboration, Ambition and Respect.

For more information please visit our school website: https://www.queenelizabeths.com/

About Initio Learning Trust

Initio Learning Trust comprises 18 schools across Dorset, with our head office based in Wimborne. Formed in February 2023 from the merger of The Minerva Learning Trust and Wimborne Academy Trust, we offer outstanding education through every stage of schooling, from nursery through to upper sixth form. We believe in enabling every person to thrive within their role, and our core values of Ambition, Collaboration and Respect underpin the pride we take in offering genuine professional development opportunities for all our staff; and in our focus on staff wellbeing.

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