Finance Business Partner

Cornwall Education Learning Trust, Newquay, TR7 2LZ

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2026

• Closing date

  1 February 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  1 December 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: £45,385.00 - £54,015.00 Annually (Actual) L1 - L6

Finance Business Partner job summary

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial strategy of our Multi Academy Trust. Working closely with Headteachers and Trust leaders, you will translate financial data into meaningful insight that supports sustainable school improvement. Your work will help ensure resources are used effectively so that every school can deliver the best possible outcomes for our learners.

You will take the lead on budgeting, forecasting and reporting for a portfolio of schools, providing clear, evidence-based advice that informs decision-making at all levels. Acting as the key finance contact for school and Trust leaders, you will combine strong technical and analytical skills with excellent relationship-building, supporting each school to understand its financial position, plan confidently for the future and manage performance throughout the year.

This is a highly collaborative and influential role, ideal for someone who enjoys working across multiple sites and wants to make a tangible impact within the education sector. You will bring both strategic thinking and hands-on support, ensuring our financial planning is robust, transparent and aligned with our Trust’s long-term priorities and values.

Location can be at either St Austell or Newquay central offices to suit applicant, travel between schools will be required.

April 2026 start but flexible by negotiation.

Flexible or part time working will be considered (to minimum of 0.8 FTE).

Cornwall Education Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Cornwall Education Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all
staff to share this commitment. The postholder is required to follow all of the Trust’s policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding at all
times, and to adhere to the statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. The postholder must take appropriate action in the event
that they have concerns, or are made aware of the concerns of others, regarding the safety or wellbeing of children or young people.

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 Cornwall Education Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Cornwall Education Learning Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cornwall-education-learning-trust

As a Trust, we agree that a child needs to feel that they are wanted, loved and valued for exactly who they are, from the beginning. There is no replacement for that and if it’s not right at the start, everything that follows is playing catch up. After that, it is about nurturing the individual genius of each child. Every child is unique and has their own strengths, weaknesses, and passions. It doesn’t matter what these might be; what matters is focusing on what it is they love and giving them the space and time to explore those passions.
We cannot forget that the core business of schools is ensuring that children and young people are able to read, write and be numerate. We also know that whatever the world may look like in the future, there will be a need to instil universal human values. Values-based education empowers schools to emphasise the centrality of all people in society
and focuses on valuing self, others and the environment, underpinning their curriculum with universal positive human values such as respect, justice, equality, integrity, harmony, trust and honesty.
At CELT, we believe that nature is a gift we should try to give to each child so forming a relationship with nature early on is a very powerful thing. Our schools are all situated in unique locations. We want children to grow up
remembering their childhood as a happy, safe place where they connected with Cornwall’s beautiful natural environment.
Young people have their own voice - our role is to hear that voice and offer the space and opportunity for it to grow.
A CELT education gives each child a moral compass and self-leadership, it enables reflection and a code of personal ethics. Our pupils become the Captain of their own ship, which ultimately enables them to navigate their wonderful, individual journeys as custodians of our future.

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