Trust Management Accountant

Coombe Academy Trust, New Malden, KT3 6NU

29 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  16 May 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  17 April 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: £42,060.00 - £46,968.00 Annually (FTE)

Trust Management Accountant job summary

As a Board, we are committed to providing the strategic support and investment necessary to ensure our financial systems and reporting are as high-performing as our classrooms. We are looking for a professional who can translate complex data into actionable insights, ensuring the robust health of our central functions.

We look forward to meeting candidates who share our ambition for excellence and our commitment to financial transparency and operational resilience. We wish you every success in your application.

The role will work closely with the Director of Finance and other members of the finance team to provide financial, budgetary and forecasting information to headteachers and trustees. Main duties include:

• Assisting with the annual and three-year budget setting process for all schools within the Trust.

• Acting as finance business partner for 2 secondary schools

• Preparing monthly management reports, forecasts and variance analyses for the secondary schools and MAT central budget.

• Overseeing the monthly budget monitoring process and forecasting for all schools

• Assisting in the development and maintenance of financial and budgeting systems

• Undertaking regular salary reconciliations to the submitted budget

• Accounting for capital grants and related expenditure

• Maintaining the Trust’s fixed asset register

• Assisting with financial reporting and financial returns

• Acting as a key point of financial expertise within the finance team and to non-financial members of staff

Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, be a part-qualified CCAB accountant or fully qualified accounting technician (AAT) with at least 5 years of accounting experience.

You will be able to demonstrate strong technical and analytical skills, a commitment to continuous improvement, and advanced excel skills. You will take a methodical but flexible approach to your work, delivering a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail, but with the ability to keep sight of the broader picture.

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 Coombe Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Coombe Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/coombe-academy-trust

Coombe Academy Trust is a well-established, respected multi academy trust (MAT) which comprises three Nursery and Primary Schools, two Secondary Schools and a joint Sixth Form, with over 3450 children and young people. In addition, within our schools we have five Specialist Resource Provisions from nursery through to Key Stage Four for pupils with Autism, severe learning difficulties, moderate learning difficulties, hearing loss and speech and language and communication needs.

Coombe Trust has a balance of academies at different starting points in their journey of improvement, therefore creating effective capacity for sponsorship. We ensure that we have high performing academies in primary and secondary phases as part of our family and that all schools are on the journey to high performance. We work as one entity to improve and maintain a high standard across the Trust. As a Trust we are seeking to expand the areas that we support. We are well placed to support any phase of education from Nursery through to Sixth Form, including settings providing SEND support. Full details can be seen within our Growth Strategy.

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