Senior Finance Officer

Create Partnership Trust, Birmingham, B11 3ND

8 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  4 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 June 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: £33,366.00 - £40,476.00 Annually (FTE)

Senior Finance Officer job summary

About the role:

We are seeking to appoint a Senior Finance Officer to join our central team at Create Partnership Trust.

Under the guidance of the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), you lead on the smooth running of the finance function supporting the wider environment.

This is an exciting time to join the central finance team as the trust is looking to update and improve the approach to the financial management

If you are looking for a new and exciting challenge in education, then we look forward to hearing from you.

The role is offered on a part-time and term-time + 2 weeks basis.

Key Responsibilities:

To be a member of the Create Central Finance Team, ensuring that the Trust’s financial processes and procedures are being carried out at all Create schools, leading on the review and improvement

To be a member of Create Central team, with responsibility for the preparation of the financial reporting for the CFO to review before being reported to the Exec team, Head Teachers, Trust Board

To be responsible for all aspects of finance at the schools and developing the in-school teams to provide a high-level service to their Headteachers

To ensure accurate records and financial information are kept enabling the CFO to appropriately model, strategically plan, forecast, analysis and report

To consider and lead on any income generation opportunities, supporting the schools where required

To contribute to the achievement of the educational vision for Create Partnership Trust

To work with schools, to develop, implement and embed standardised processes and procedures

To develop relationships with key financial partners, including local authorities and external finance consultants

To scan the financial and education horizon, looking outwards to support financial information and planning, keeping up-to-date with the latest guidance and preparing the forecasts for expected changes.

You will have the following skills/ experience.

Extensive experience working in a finance team, ideally in a central finance function where there is devolved responsibility for finance processes and procedures

Experience and/or knowledge of schools or education finance & administration would be desirable, but not essential

Knowledge and experience of financial management systems and processes

Experience of implementing financial policies and procedures

Experience of assisting with budgeting and reporting processes in an organisation

Experience of preparing financial reports, management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations

Experience of working with a range of internal and external partners including non-finance personnel

Ability to work independently using initiative

For more information about the role please contact Lorna Ingram, CFO, 07498 732 301, lorna.ingram@create.org.uk

Create Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. Our safeguarding system is underpinned by policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

This post is covered by part 7 of the immigration act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement of this role.

Online searches are carried out on all shortlisted candidates for positions at Create Partnership Trust. The searches are carried out to identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the Trust might want to explore with the candidate at interview. Please find a link to our safeguarding policy https://www.create.org.uk/policies-documents you are encouraged to read this policy prior to applying to work with us.

CREATE PARTNERSHIP TRUST IS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE WORKFORCE

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding commitment

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About Create Partnership Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
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