Finance Business Partner
Star Academies, Blackburn, BB1 2HT9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 July 2025
Closing date
23 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 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
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £58,341 to £64,182 (M4 SCP 48-53)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
We are looking to appoint a Finance Business Partner to provide financial leadership and management support across designated schools across the Greater Manchester & Lancashire area. You will lead the development of financial operations and take responsibility for financial matters in the designated schools.
You will have:
- A sound understanding of the budgeting & financial management processes, preferably in an educational establishment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of developing constructive relationships with non-financial stakeholders
You will find an organisation that:
- Is passionate about its vision of ‘Nurturing Today’s Young People, Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders’
- Has a supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all members of our community
- Has high ambitions for all and provides excellent opportunities for professional development
- Is well-ordered with high standards of commitment
The role will be based across Lancashire & Greater Manchester area and the post holder will be required to travel between the designated academies or to any other reasonable location where the Trust is undertaking its business.
What the school offers its staff
About Star Academies
Star Academies is a high-performing multi-academy trust that runs more than 30 primary and secondary schools. We are a values-based organisation that works to improve the life chances of young people in areas of social and economic deprivation to help them succeed at the highest levels of education, employment and the professions. Every single day you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to shape a young person’s future - our STAR values embody what we believe is needed to succeed.
Professional development is key to our ongoing success, so we continually invest in our employees through our professional development hub,Star Talent Academy.With a wealth of training, mentoring and progression opportunities across a large, growing group of academies, joining our team of leading education experts could propel your career to the next level.
We can also offer you a range of rewards and benefits, including competitive salaries and pension schemes, generous holiday entitlements and healthcare cash plans.
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 Star Academies
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- info@staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 0330 313 9800
Head office location
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