Trust Finance Assistant
Oak Multi Academy Trust, Oadby, LE2 4FU13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
as soon as possible
Closing date
29 June 2026 at 8am
Date listed
16 June 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
- £28,598.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (Actual) Pay award pending
Trust Finance Assistant job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a reliable, confident and experienced Trust Finance Assistant to join our supportive and friendly Trust Central Team.
OAK Multi Academy Trust is far more than just a network of schools, it is a family of schools located in Leicestershire and Leicester City, with an infant, a junior, two primary, and one secondary school. We are passionate about making a real difference to the lives of all our children and empowering our whole school communities to enable this to happen to its fullest.
The Central Trust Team are a cohesive highly skilled group working collaboratively at our purpose-built central office in Oadby, Leicestershire. The role will be primarily based at our central office with the opportunity to work with and regularly visit our schools.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed finance assistant to undertake day-to-day operational financial transactional processing, reconciliation and reporting, working closely with the Trust Finance Manager and the Chief Finance Officer. The post is full time, 37 hours per week, all year round and is fully office based.
The Trust Finance Assistant supports the central finance function and will contribute to a wide range of financial processes and systems, assisting with the effective provision of financial management across the Trust, and the provision of professional support and guidance to all schools and extended services within the Trust.
The ideal candidate will have:
- at least 3 years’ experience of working in a finance role
- experience of finance within the Education environment
- a relevant qualification or be studying towards this, or equivalent experience
- good communication and interpersonal skills, including confidence in engaging with both internal and external stakeholders
- a proactive, ‘can-do’ attitude
- strong attention to detail
- a willingness to learn, develop and progress
For further information regarding the role, please refer to the Trust Finance Assistant job description. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits, please refer to the OAK Candidate Information pack for more information.
We welcome informal enquiries from candidates, should you wish to discuss the role in more detail.
For any further information or to arrange a visit, please contact Jackie Morley, Trust Finance Manager, on 0116 5077819.
Please apply using the online application form.
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 Oak Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
As a thriving, local trust of five schools covering 3-16 age ranges, we are located in Leicestershire and Leicester City, with an infant, a junior, two primaries, and one secondary. We are passionate about making a real
difference to the lives of all our children and about empowering our whole school communities to enable this to happen to its fullest.
Our OAK vision statement is: Together we grow great schools
We do this through our values by:
Continually identifying and supporting opportunities to improve;
having an unerring ambition to achieve; and
embodying kindness by doing the “right thing”
We believe that our colleagues are our greatest asset and we are building on our strong base of colleague benefits through extensive instructional coaching utilising Steplab. We are proud that two of our schools are
becoming a Steplab hub in September 2024. We are currently launching our exciting Trust wide digital transformation program Frontiers which will see over half our schools introduce 1:1 iPad programme in 2024-25.
Each of our schools has a strong identity, a hallmark of OAK. We collaborate extensively and agree strategy together whilst always valuing the different contexts of our schools. Each of our schools believe that we are stronger together and we have equity for all our pupils at the heart of our strategic decisions.
Our schools are:
Brookside Primary School
Manor High School
Overdale Infants School
Overdale Junior School
Woodland Grange Primary School
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