Head of Finance Business Partnering
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA42 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
1 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 8.45 am – 4.30 pm M-Th, 8.45 am – 4.15 pm F, 36 hrs per week, all year round
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- OHC&AT Central teams’ Management Scale (L24-L28), £60, 218 – £66,901 p/a
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a proactive and experienced Head of Finance Business Partnering to join our dynamic Finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to grow their career in Financial Management whilst making a real difference to the lives of our pupils and students.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deputise for the Assistant Director of Finance when required.
- Responsible for a portfolio of schools that show high risk.
- Lead a team of academy Senior Finance Business Partners, reviewing management accounts for all schools on a monthly basis.
- Line manage staff to include all duties required to induct, recruit, continuously develop, support and manage them effectively.
- Establish, challenge, and review bench-marking tools to compare OHCAT academies with others in the trust and also within the wider academy sector.
- Lead on continuous improvement on Debtors reporting.
- Ensure completion consolidated budget for the academic year to include I&E, balance sheet, cashflow statements, commentary and dashboards for presentation to Risk and Review meetings.
- Make visits to the academies and other sites as needed to ensure the smooth running of the team and functions.
- See Job Description for full list.
Key Requirements:
- Qualified CCAB qualifications
(Part-qualified or AAT Qualified will be considered) or Qualifications in accounting equivalent to the above.
- Demonstrate excellent decision-making skills.
- Ability to build strong and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Able to build capability in own team and senior stakeholders in the Trust.
- Demonstrate significant accounting experience, including financial management and control.
- Good understanding of working within the education sector.
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience of communicating with senior post holders
- Proficient in Excel and other Microsoft packages.
- Use of Resource financial package or similar.
- Clear understanding of accounting tasks.
- Ability to carry out financial monitoring and budget setting.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Effective communication in writing and verbally
- Good interpersonal skills and experience in managing members of staff.
- Ability to provide excellent customer service.
- Discretion in handling confidential data.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to use initiative and manage own workload.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines whilst maintaining accuracy.
- Flexible and adaptable to change in the environment of work.
- Knowledge of current educational issues.
A commitment to promote the Equality and Diversity, Safeguarding and Health and Safety Policies and other OHC&AT policies.
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
- Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment
- Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme, Employee Car Lease Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
- Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme and Free Virtual GP Appointments
- Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
- Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
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About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- MollyKing@ohcat.org
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
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