Trust Finanace Manager

Willow Tree Academy, Rotherham, S65 2JW

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  as soon as possible

• Closing date

  25 November 2025 at 5pm

• Date listed

  4 November 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: £47,181.00 - £50,269.00 Annually (FTE)

Trust Finanace Manager job summary

Here at Willow Tree Academy, our motto is ‘Engaging Hearts and Minds in the Love of Learning’. As a small Academy Trust comprising four primary schools, we are committed to providing a safe, vibrant, and inspiring environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to achieve their very best.

Our schools are highly successful, offering pupils a rich and engaging primary experience that nurtures both academic achievement and personal growth. Restorative Practice is central to our ethos and guides how we build relationships, resolve challenges, and foster a caring and considerate community.

As part of this vision, the Trust Finance Manager plays a key role in ensuring our financial resources are managed responsibly and effectively to support the high-quality education and creative curriculum we provide. Responsible and thoughtful financial management underpins everything we do, enabling our schools to continue offering exceptional opportunities that inspire both hearts and minds.

The Role.

The candidate must be able to rise to the technical financial challenges, as well as being able to communicate effectively with Senior Leaders and Finance Business colleagues enabling the best possible outcome for children. Maintaining the financial accounting systems across the MAT, ensuring compliance with the Academies Financial Handbook and other key financial guidance and legislative requirements.

Preparing year end working papers/schedules liaising with external auditors and completing year end accounts including relevant notes using DAPA software.

Skilled in effective oral and written communication, the ability to form effective professional relationships including team working, and have good organisational and time management skills. You will possess at least Qualified Accountant status CCAB qualification.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join our trust. Working closely alongside the current CEO & CFO/COO, the successful candidate will play a key role in contributing to the vision, values and strategic development of the trust.

We require someone who will be responsible for producing timely and accurate financial information using the Trusts financial and accounting systems and processes, to the standards required by the Trust, the ESFA, Audit Commission and the accountancy profession. The role will also work closely with the Trust HR and Payroll Team ensuring accurate returns and reporting is completed.

Preparing year end working papers/schedules liaising with external auditors and completing year end accounts including relevant notes using DAPA software.

Skilled in effective oral and written communication, the ability to form effective professional relationships including team working, and have good organisational and time management skills.

You will possess at least Qualified Accountant status CCAB qualification or equivalent.

What’s in it for you?

We are dedicated to the development of our colleagues and committed to creating a great place to work. In order to provide the best for our pupils and families we need to find people already living our Values. In return we will offer you extensive support and CPD; the opportunity to work with other professional colleagues across the Academy Trust; a welcoming school, with friendly, enthusiastic and supportive staff team; an ambitious and dynamic Senior leadership Team; a dedicated Governing Body.

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 Willow Tree Academy

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Willow Tree Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/willow-tree-academy

Our school mission statement states our commitment to ‘engaging hearts and minds in
the joy of learning’ and I am fortunate to have such a talented team who go ‘the extra mile’.
My staff all offer great commitment to your children and to the community of Herringthorpe
too. Teamwork, creativity, taking responsibility, empathy and a high sense of personal selfesteem
are just some of the qualities that we aim to develop in your children. To be able to
do this we need to work in partnership with you.
We too are proud of our outstanding provision and because of this we support other schools in
challenging circumstances. Our collaboration with Greasbrough Primary School has been an amazing
success, with the school emerging rapidly from Special Measures in less than eighteen months.
Strengthening our partnership was the next step and we have now formed Willow Tree Academy which
also no includes Rockingham Junior and Infant School and Roughwood Primary School.
Each year the school goes from strength to strength – we believe every day is special and no time can be
wasted in the pursuit of excellence. However, you are the first and foremost educators of your children
and we value your support and time with Home Learning and most important, reading at home. We look
forward to working together in partnership to help your child be the best that they can be!

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