Finance Business Partner
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust, Liverpool, L3 1BY20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £39,513 - £44,711
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Multi Academy Trust at a time of transformation and growth.
We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious Finance Business Partner to support the Head of Finance and CFOO in delivering high-quality financial services across the Trust. If you are a finance professional with a passion for strategic impact, technology, and innovation, we want to hear from you!
This role offers a unique blend of financial management, strategy, and digital transformation. You will be instrumental in:
§ Developing modern, automated finance processes using AI, workflow tools (Monday.com, Power BI), and automation technologies.
§ Providing expert financial advice to Headteachers, School Business Managers, and key stakeholders to support strategic decision-making.
§ Ensuring financial sustainability across the Trust by producing accurate budgets, forecasts, and management accounts.
§ Driving efficiency and best practice by streamlining processes, implementing audit recommendations, and supporting procurement strategy.
What the school offers its staff
Key responsibilities include:
§ To support the Head of Finance in ensuring the efficient and prudent management of Trust funds through the provision of comprehensive and accurate financial management information, analysis and advice.
§ To work with the CFOO and Head of Finance to ensure consistent standards and business processes, service continuity and continuous improvement in all aspects of financial support.
§ To support the Head of Finance in meeting all statutory financial reporting requirements.
§ To be the Trust’s expert on the application of the corporate Ledger ensuring the data input processes are consistently applied across the Trust.
§ To ensure the financial business processes fully comply with the ESFA’s Financial Handbook and Trust’s Financial Policies and Procedures.
§ To support the Head of Finance & other colleagues in undertaking Best Value Reviews and delivering an effective procurement strategy to ensure the efficient, and targeted use of resources.
§ To assist the Head of Finance with the preparation of the monthly management accounts and the quarterly budget setting process and review.
§ To carry out regular bank reconciliations; internal recharges; month end closedown; cash flow forecasts, general forecast and monthly budget monitoring of all the Primary Academies.
§ Meeting regularly with Headteachers and School Business Managers in the Primary academies monthly to work on specific issues, month end reporting, management accounts and preparing for periodic audits and the end of year accounts.
Any other relevant Finance related tasks which might arise to assist the Head of Finance.
Flexible working opportunities
This role is based at the Trust’s central office in the Port of Liverpool Building, but we offer flexibility to work remotely. The role also requires travel to the schools, when needed. We are keen to understand how this role could work for you and are open to consider flexible working options.
Further details about the role
There are many good reasons to work with us. We have a real sense of community, striving to make a difference to children’s education. You will be part, too of the wider Archdiocese family and in the company of some of the best people in education. We also offer a variety of benefits, such as:
§ Competitive salaries and pay progression
§ Flexible working
§ Access to extensive professional development opportunities
§ Generous holiday entitlement 39 days including bank holidays.
§ Generous pension scheme
§ Employee assistance programme
§ Competitive terms and conditions of employment
The list is not exhaustive and will grow as the Trust matures.
Commitment to safeguarding
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo an enhanced disclosure and barring service check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we will carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
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 St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- lkelly@sjcmat.co.uk
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is a based in the Liverpool City Region with five primary and four secondary academies. As a united family of academies, we are fully aligned around our central mission to transform children’s lives by providing them with a world-class Catholic education.
The Trust guarantees an excellent Catholic education to all families. Our children are entitled to access an ambitious curriculum and excellent teaching, which allow them to achieve and exceed national expectations regardless of their starting points.
Everyone involved in St Joseph CMAT is highly committed to the pursuit of high achievement. We aim for all of our academies to be at least ‘Good’ with performance in the top 20% of schools nationally in all measures, particularly in Religious Education. Our robust educational strategy, which is informed by the highest-performing Trusts in the country, is designed to ensure that all children learn to read confidently and achieve well across the curriculum so that they can go on to use their God-given gifts to make the world a better place.
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust has sponsor status. We are able to provide intensive support to schools who find themselves in a vulnerable position and onboard ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ schools who choose to join as converter academies. For all academies in the Trust, there is a guarantee of high-quality professional development for all colleagues.
As part of its Multi Academy Trust strategy, the Archdiocese of Liverpool has identified a group of primary schools that are invited to join St Joseph CMAT over the coming years. This is an exciting opportunity to bring together primary and secondary schools. By working as a family of academies, we will ensure that every child benefits from an excellent Catholic education from the moment they start primary school to when they leave Sixth Form.
Arranging a visit to St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lkelly@sjcmat.co.uk.
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