Senior Finance Manager

Minerva Learning Trust, Sheffield, S9 1XU

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2027

• Closing date

  30 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  12 November 2026

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: £54,143.00 - £58,557.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Grade 10, point 41 to 45

Senior Finance Manager job summary

Minerva Learning Trust is a growing multi-academy trust committed to providing an outstanding education for students from a wide variety of backgrounds across Sheffield and Derbyshire.

This is a newly created senior leadership role within the Central Finance Team. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Senior Finance Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening finance operations across the Trust. The role supports a growing multi-academy trust comprising primary, secondary and post-16 provision, requiring effective financial leadership across multiple sites and stakeholders.

The postholder will lead management accounting, finance business partnering and operational finance functions, ensuring that financial information supports effective decision-making and delivers value for money across all schools and services. They will be accountable for the accuracy, robustness and timeliness of the Trust’s finance reports, processes and systems.

We are seeking an experienced finance leader with a track record of managing and developing high-performing teams. You will be skilled in driving accountability, developing talent and creating a culture of continuous improvement and customer service. Experience in the Academy sector is an advantage, but we are more interested in your ability to get the best out of the team and drive improvements and efficiencies in processes and systems. You will have overall line management of the finance team and responsibility for all operational aspects of finance.

You will also need to have strong technical skills and experience as a finance business partner. You will act as a trusted adviser to headteachers and senior leaders, supporting budget planning, financial forecasting and strategic decision-making. The ability to translate complex financial information into clear, practical advice will be essential. At times you will need to be comfortable having difficult conversations while maintaining positive working relationships with internal stakeholders.

The successful candidate will play a key role in developing financial systems, strengthening internal controls and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency through process redesign and technology.

You will be a qualified accountant and a good mentor for more junior members of the team both for study and work-related matters. You will need to be comfortable with delivering change at pace and engaging other team members in the process.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements

• To lead and manage all operational aspects of the Central Finance team.
• To work closely with the Chief Financial Officer and Finance team to ensure financial controls across the trust are robust and applied consistently, suggesting and implementing improvements to the controls framework where appropriate to keep in line with sector best practice.
• To develop and strengthen the Finance Business Partnering team ensuring key stakeholders are supported to understand their budgets and any actions required.
• To produce monthly management accounts for allocated schools and the Trust consolidated accounts accurately and on time for review by the Chief Financial Officer
• Oversight of budget monitoring and reforecasting for all schools. 
• Ensure compliance to HMRC and DfE requirements. 
  

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment, further information can be found in our child protection and safeguarding policy on our statutory information page on our website
Minerva Learning Trust. The successful candidate will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In line with KCSIE, the trust/school will be carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence.

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 Minerva Learning Trust

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

Minerva Learning Trust is an expanding Sheffield based multi-academy Trust with a vision of
providing outstanding education for all the students within our schools. The Trust is passionate that
all students should see their time at school as happy and fulfilling with their potential developed to
the utmost. High Storrs School joined the Trust in March 2018.

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