Senior Finance Manager
Gosforth Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE3 2JH20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
11 January 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 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
- £55,604.00 - £59,068.00
Senior Finance Manager job summary
In this pivotal position, you will lead the finance team delivering a range of finance projects and initiatives that drive organisational change and support our strategic goals. You will be responsible for producing accurate management accounts, overseeing budgets, and ensuring compliance with statutory and Trust regulations as well as providing guidance and training to budget holders. Your expertise will be vital in supporting and deputising for the Chief Financial Officer.
You will work closely with senior leaders, external auditors, and key stakeholders, using your analytical skills to identify opportunities for improvement and ensure best practice in all aspects of financial management. Your ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and your commitment to continuous improvement will help us maintain our high standards and expectations.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Are you an experienced finance professional ready to take the next step in your career? We are seeking a Senior Finance Manager to join our Trust’s central team, where you will play a crucial role in shaping our financial strategy and ensuring robust financial management across our Trust.
You will bring significant post-qualification senior experience, including managing a team, have excellent financial analysis skills, an attention to detail and a strong understanding of the education sector’s financial landscape. If you’re a collaborative leader with strong communication skills, comfortable with driving continuous improvement and passionate about making a difference to the lives of the children and young people in our academies, we’d love to hear from you.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
- A competitive salary
- Generous annual leave
- Benefits including; excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, free on-site parking
- An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals
- Enthusiastic and motivated students
- An exciting and extensive commitment to professional development
- A school with its community at heart
- Wider career development opportunities to be involved across the Gosforth Group
If you would like to discuss this vacancy further, or you are unable to complete the online application form and require this in another format please contact us by email: people@gosforthgroup.org.uk
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received, and so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
The Trust is committed to equality, inclusion and diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
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
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Gosforth Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1927 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Gosforth Academy website
Gosforth Federated Academies comprises three schools (Gosforth Academy, North Gosforth Academy and Gosforth Junior High Academy) committed to providing a superb education for pupils from Year 5 through to Year 13.
Gosforth Academy is a successful school which was rated ‘outstanding’ in its most recent Ofsted inspection.
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