Trust Finance Partner
East Anglian Schools Trust Ltd, Woodbridge, IP13 0RP7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
May/June 2025
Closing date
5 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 April 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
- £36,124.00 - £39,513.00 Annually (FTE)
Trust Finance Partner job summary
22 - 37 hours a week
42 weeks a year
Grade 5 (Point 21-25)
Permanent
East Anglian Schools’ Trust (EAST) has an exciting opportunity to join our forward-thinking and growing Trust. We are looking to appoint a Trust Finance Partner to work with the Central Finance Team and School Finance Officers to ensure effective financial management in schools, alongside supporting in the management Trust-wide financial processes. The role has been created due to the recent centralisation of some core financial functions. It will be based in our central office at Wickham Market Primary School but will also involve working in schools with finance teams and school leaders directly.
The successful candidate will be a committed individual with considerable experience of working in a finance accounting role. This is a significant role requiring experience of school finance systems, structures, procedures and processes, as well as management of a team and line management. Working alongside schools, it is essential that applicants have strong expertise and experience in financial planning, the ability to interpret financial data, and interpret complex financial information. Providing support and advice to Headteachers and Finance Officers in our secondary schools is likely to be a core strand of the role and therefore, confidence and experience of doing this across schools would be advantageous.
Should you wish to discuss the post further, we would welcome an informal conversation. Please do not hesitate to contact our Trust HR Manager, Melissa Rodwell on mrodwell@eastmat.org or 01728 746504 (option 4 ) who will arrange this with Jill Porter-Hardy (Director Of Finance).
EAST are committed to the professional growth of our employees, and is willing to support its employees to gain a relevant qualification in this area. EAST is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share and adhere to this commitment. DBS checks required for all posts.
Please note that EAST reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.
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 are not accepted.
About East Anglian Schools Trust Ltd
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Thank you for expressing an interest in working within East Anglian Schools' Trust (EAST).
Joining EAST and our Schools is an exciting opportunity. With a dynamic and caring ethos, you will be assured of support and a genuine investment in your development. Our staff CPD programmes are of extremely high quality, engaging and innovative. Staff in our schools work within environments which are committed to their wellbeing, making our schools progressive, happy places to work.
Should you wish to visit one of our schools prior to making an application, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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