Finance Officer

Bridge Multi Academy Trust, Bodmin, PL31 2RQ

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  7 January 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  18 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,410.00 - £32,813.00 Annually (FTE) £20,320 - £27381 (Actual)

Finance Officer job summary

We are looking for a proactive and professional Finance Officer to join our Multi-Academy Trust, supporting 15 thriving primary schools.

Working closely with the Chief Finance Officer and the wider finance team, you will play a key role in delivering an efficient, accurate, and responsive finance service to our schools. This is a varied role where no two days are the same. You may be supporting budget monitoring and reporting, maintaining accurate financial records, assisting with payroll and pensions processes, responding to finance queries from schools, or helping colleagues make effective use of our finance systems.

You will also contribute to Trust-wide finance projects, including process improvements, system developments, and initiatives that help strengthen financial controls and support schools to operate efficiently.

We’re looking for someone with practical finance experience who is confident working with financial data and systems, has strong attention to detail, and takes a solution-focused approach. You’ll be personable, resilient, and able to build positive working relationships with school leaders and colleagues across the Trust.

In return, we offer:

• A supportive and collaborative central finance team where your contribution is valued
• Hybrid working and term-time working plus INSET+ 5 days
• A wellbeing package, including access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

If you enjoy working with numbers, improving processes, and making a real difference to schools through strong financial support, we’d love to hear from you.

Hours: 30-35 per week (negotiable)

Working weeks: 38 weeks + INSET + 5

Paid weeks: 45.999 per year (includes holiday entitlement)

Pay: £28410 - £32813 full-time equivalent

Actual salary £20,320 - £27381

About Bridge Schools Trust

Bridge Schools Trust is a family of schools across Cornwall, built on dedication and trust and united by a shared commitment to putting learning first.

Our values guide everything we do:

• Creative in our approach to teaching and problem-solving
• Curious, always innovating and learning
• Responsible, accountable to our communities
• Enthusiastic, bringing energy and passion to every endeavour
• Excellent in our expectations and delivery
• Determined, rallying together to overcome challenges

By joining us, you will become part of a collaborative, supportive, and forward-thinking Trust where staff are valued, wellbeing is prioritised, and professional development is encouraged.

Safeguarding and Equal Opportunities

Bridge Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, Social Media check, and satisfactory references.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

If you have the drive and determination to enable every child to succeed, and wish to be part of a Trust that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement , we would love to hear from you.

Please submit your application as early as possible if you wish to apply, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close this advert early dependant on the volume of applications received.

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

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

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 Bridge Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bridge-multi-academy-trust

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