EIAT Management Accountant
Education Impact Academy Trust, Birmingham, B24 8BL31 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
2 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Hours of Work: 15 hours per week; weekly hours may vary depending on reporting deadlines. Working patterns can be flexible and this role can be performed entirely remotely. We are open to discussing variations to this if this means securing the right candidate for the role.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 6, SCP 41 to 49, £50,788 to £59,382 pro rata (£19,161.75 to £22,404.17 actual)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Education Impact Academy Trust is a flourishing Multi Academy Trust (MAT) incorporating Wilson Stuart School, Mayfield School, Queensbury School, The Hive College, Blue Sky Nursery and Lime Tree Nursery. We strive to ensure that all establishments are improving because they are part of EIAT and seek to share best practice and work in cohesive, collaborative and innovative ways. Our ethos is ‘Better Never Ends’.
As part of the ongoing development of our Trust team to support our establishments, we have a new opportunity for an experienced Management Accountant to join our team of professional and dedicated staff. The finance function has gone through a period of significant change, including migrating to a new finance system (Xero with Planergy for purchasing) and moving to the Department for Education’s Chart of Accounts (CoA). This is an exciting time to join our team and to have a significant influence our ways of working and ultimately decision making though the production of reliable and timely financial information to benefit our Trust and most importantly our students.
The ideal candidate will:• Be CCAB qualified with significant experience of month end reporting and budgeting;• Be able to produce financial information that is tailored for purpose and to the audience;• Be able to work independently and manage workload effectively in a remote working environment;• Have experience using Xero;• Be comfortable with communicating effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders; and• Have integrity, enthusiasm and commitment.
Informal conversations are warmly welcomed. If you would like to arrange an informal visit, please email hr@educationimpact.org.uk
If you are determined, ambitious, hardworking and you meet our requirements, then we would love to hear from you.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable), qualifications, medical fitness, identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search (and a prohibition check for teachers) will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
To read a copy of our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy please click on the link below:Policies (educationimpact.org.uk)
To read our policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders please click on the link below:Policies (educationimpact.org.uk)
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement of the role.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A collaborative and inclusive culture;
• A committed, hardworking team who strive to provide the best education for all students;
• Comprehensive induction and probation support and regular opportunities for professional development and growth;
• We offer 10 staff training days across the academic year; one or two of these days are disaggregated which means you complete training outside of normal working hours in twilight sessions and take the actual training day off;
• Employee Assistance Programme via BHSF - free totally confidential support;
• Access to discounts and offers via BHSF;
• Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) for support staff; and
• Generous annual leave entitlement for support staff based on length of service, starting at 29 days pro-rata, rising to 32 at 5 years’ plus service and 34 following 10 years’ plus service.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Education Impact Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- hr@educationimpact.org.uk
Education Impact Academy Trust (EIAT) consists of 3 different Special Schools and a Specialist College (19-25) and two mainstream day nurseries.
You will work with a team of staff to support children and young people to reach their full educational potential. We believe that ‘Better Never Ends‘.
Arranging a visit to Education Impact Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@educationimpact.org.uk.
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