Trust Finance Manager

Collaborative Learning Trust, Otley, LS21 3JP

16 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  8 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 Hours per Week Monday to Thursday 08:30 – 16:30 Friday 08:30 – 15:30 30-minute unpaid break each day Some home working available upon successful completion of probation
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual Salary £46,142 - £49,282 Per Annum (£47,664 - £50,908 NJC pay award pending)
• Pay scale: NJC Grade PO4 Scale Points 35 – 38

What skills and experience we're looking for

NJC Grade PO4 Scale Points 35 – 38

Actual Salary £46,142.00 - £49,282.00 Per Annum (£47,664 - £50,908 NJC pay award pending)

37 Hours per Week

Permanent

All Year Round

Collaborative Learning Trust seek to appoint an experienced, knowledgeable, and ambitious individual to join our Finance Team within the Trust.

Recent Trust growth means this is an exciting time to join, and the successful candidate will be expected to partner with the Chief Finance and Operations Officer to ensure the best possible support for our Trust schools, driving the effective management of Trust resources and ensuring the optimal financial processes to support this. Managing the budgets, forecasts and financial reporting for our 9 schools, you will be required to partner closely with specific schools within the Trust, whilst understanding and consolidating the financial budgets and reporting for the whole organisation.

The successful candidate will have:

• Relevant professional qualifications, ACCA or CIMA
• Strong ICT skills including training in specific applications such as spreadsheets
• Ability to communicate effectively to a range of stakeholders and audiences
• A solution-focused mindset and determined “no excuses” approach to raising standards

For more information on the job description please click on the 'Vacancies' tab at https://www.collaborativelearningtrust.com/vacancies

What the school offers its staff

In return we offer:

• Excellent Continuing Professional Development opportunities
• A dedicated staff team supported by a committed and experienced senior leadership team.

Please note we do not accept CVs.

Closing date: Wednesday 8th July 2026

Selection date: Monday 13th July 2026

Collaborative Learning Trust is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

In line with KCSiE 2025, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Trust Finance Manager Recruitment Booklet June26 LD.pdf - 596 KB (opens in new tab)

About Collaborative Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Collaborative Learning Trust website
• Email address: lucy.dugdale@collaborativelearningtrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/collaborative-learning-trust

As a Multi-Academy Trust founded on existing school partnerships in Yorkshire, we are proud of what we have achieved so far and excited about the future. Our aim is to constantly strive to support the development of lifelong independent learners in a child centred and inclusive Trust. We believe that this can only be achieved by building strong partnerships so that schools within Yorkshire are able to draw on the very best practice, wherever that may lie, and share expertise across the Trust.

The Collaborative Learning Trust places children at the very centre of everything that we do. The provision of key central services by the Trust enables individual schools to focus even more on providing an outstanding school experience for children and young people – in line with the Trust’s vision.

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