Senior Finance Officer

Orchard Learning Alliance, Reading, RG5 4RF

10 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  1 November 2025 at 6pm

• Date listed

  1 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: NJC Grade 8 (wef 1 April 2025 £40,777 - £45,091)
• Additional allowances:

  NJC Grade 8 (wef 1 April 2025 £40,777 - £45,091)

Senior Finance Officer job summary

As part of our dynamic central team, you’ll bring expertise, accuracy, and financial insight to ensure our schools thrive. This is an exciting opportunity to combine your financial know-how with a passion for supporting education, in a role where no two days are the same.

What you’ll be doing:
✔ Managing exchequer functions - accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking, VAT
✔ Responsible for maintaining the trusts finance system

✔ Providing expert advice to senior leaders and budget holders across our 10 schools and central trust

What we’re looking for:
💡 A finance professional with strong technical skills and attention to detail
💡 A collaborative team player who can build great relationships
💡 Someone driven to improve systems, processes, and outcomes

✨ Bring your expertise, shape our future, and help us nurture excellence in education. ✨

This role is being advertised as a full time position, all year round. However, term time only plus 15 days would be considered.

Please refer to the job description attached for further information.

We may interview throughout the period and may close before the deadline. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact RMajilton@orchardlearningalliance.com.

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 Orchard Learning Alliance

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Orchard Learning Alliance website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/waingels-academies-trust

The Orchard Learning Alliance is a family of schools dedicated to providing the best possible educational experience and serving our communities through exceptional schools. We believe that education has the power to transform lives and that by working together, as a family of schools, we will enhance the life chances of all our children by equipping them with the knowledge, skills and confidence to thrive.

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