Trust Finance Manager
Oak Multi Academy Trust, Oadby, LE2 4FUThis job expired on 2 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
2 December 2024 at 8am
Date listed
19 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week (full-time, 52 weeks) Office based
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £45,718 - £48,710 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
An opportunity has arisen for a diligent and confident Trust Finance Manager 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 currently 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 happens 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 professional to oversee the day-to-day financial activity of the Trust, working alongside the Trust Finance Officer and the Chief Finance Officer. The post is full time, 37 hours per week, all year round, although part time working would be considered for the right candidate.
The Trust Finance Manager leads the central finance function and is responsible for managing the organisation’s financial processes and systems, advising on and ensuring 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 5 years’ experience of working in a finance role
- hold a relevant qualification or equivalent experience
- good communication and interpersonal skills, including the confidence in engaging with both internal and external stakeholders
- proactive, ‘can-do’ attitude
- strong attention to detail
- Finance experience within an education environment is desirable although not essential
For further information regarding the role, please refer to the Trust Finance Manager job description.
What the school offers its staff
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits, including:
-Annual incremental pay increases (performance related and within the pay scale range)
-Continual Professional Development
-Pension Scheme -On-site parking -Eyecare voucher scheme
-Annual flu vaccination
Lifestyle Savings that include:
- Health cash plan
- Home and Electronics Scheme - Cycle to Work Scheme - Gym Membership Scheme
Staff wellbeing programme that includes:
- Free Physiotherapy treatment - Free Counselling & Wellbeing Support - Menopause Support - GP Phone & Video Consultation – Accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Flexible working opportunities
We welcome informal enquiries from candidates, should you wish to discuss the role in more detail or to discuss options around flexible working.
For any further information or to arrange a visit, please contact Sarah Davis, Chief Finance Officer on 0116-3033721.
Please apply using the online application form available via the Eteach website: https://www.eteach.com/job/trust-finance-manager-1453737
Further details about the role
Closing Date: Monday 2nd December 2024 at 8.00am
Interview Date: Provisionally, 9th December 2024
Salary: £45,718 - £48,710 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours per Week: 37 (full-time, 52 weeks)
Location: Oak Multi Academy Trust, The Hub, Copse Close, Leicester, LE2 4FU (office-based role)
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.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Oak Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- hr@oaktrust.org
- Phone number
- 0116 3033722
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
Arranging a visit to Oak Multi Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@oaktrust.org.
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