Trust Management Accountant

The Creative Learning Partnership Trust, Stafford, ST16 1ZY

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  7 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  21 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £43,693.00 - £47,754.00 Annually (FTE) Working Hours:- 0.8/1 FTE Working Weeks:- Term Time plus 3 weeks

Trust Management Accountant job summary

We are a growing Multi-Academy Trust with a passion for ensuring that we provide the best education possible for all of our children. Our children are at the centre of everything we do.

Since its conception, our Trust has grown from strength to strength. We constantly strive to further develop our Trust, with the next phase of our development proving to be as equally exciting and challenging as ever.

Our staff are talented and passionate who believe in the mission of the Trust and all that we seek to achieve. We will continue to work together with the common purpose of collaboration to improve outcomes for all of our children.

We currently have eleven schools within our Trust. The children range from the age of three months to 13-year-olds. Each school is unique and as a Trust, we learn from each and every school. They exist in different communities, in different contexts but are united by the mission, the values/personality and beliefs of the Trust and a focus upon our children.

Our values are integrity, dedication, kindness, understanding, collaboration and innovation and we stand by these values. With our mission to create transformational educative opportunities.

Our vision as a Trust is to support all our children and staff to raise aspirations for all. Come and see our schools and Trust in action and be part of our journey.

This is a challenging and pivotal role within the Trust, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The Trust Management Accountant will provide high quality leadership of school financial management to all schools within the Trust. The post holder will support the CFO with all financial systems and processes for the Trust in line with the requirements of the Academy Trust Handbook.

Purpose of the role

• Support the CFO to provide leadership and management of the financial performance of the Trust.
• Support the CFO as outlined in the Academies’ Trust Handbook and other documents form the Department for Education (DfE).

This translates as the responsibility to:

• Ensure good financial management, together with the CFO, so that public money is always safeguarded and managed efficiently, ethically, professionally, with integrity and conforming to all internal and external regulatory requirements and in a sustainably sound manner in the delivery of the Trust’s core aims.
• Provide sound financial advice to school staff and Governors and ensuring financial training and development needs are identified and reported to the CFO
• Together with the CFO, ensure the Trust reports, on a timely basis to DFE and other relevant bodies in line with their specific requirements.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Attend Senior Leadership Team meetings and Local Governing Board (LGB) meetings, as required.
• In the absence of the CFO, take delegated responsibility for financial and other decisions.
• Assist the Headteacher with change management in accordance with the school development/strategic plan.

Financial Resource Management

• Together with the CFO, ensure that financial management within the Trust as a whole and each individual academy, complies with the requirements of the Academies’ Trust Handbook and Academies’ Accounts Direction issued annually by the DfE, which sets out the requirements for the preparation and audit of the annual reports and financial statements of the Trust.

• Work with the CFO to prepare a three-year financial plan considering DfE guidelines / funding and identifying additional sources of external revenue and funding.

• Act as a key officer for specified schools and advise those Headteachers in preparing academy budgets and current budget positions.
• Monitor spend on capital projects, ensuring all relevant costs have been capitalised and budgets are closely monitored

• Provide support and guidance to Trust schools, including ; Understanding of and compliance with financial regulations and production of necessary financial reports.

• Advise the Headteacher and CFO if fraudulent activities are suspected or uncovered.

• Keep abreast of financial developments, in terms of budgets and financial commitments by keeping in touch with key professional bodies (e.g. DFE, Teachers’ Pensions, Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) etc).

• Support the CFO and COO to manage and oversee the Trust assets ensuring that the full inventory of assets is recorded in an asset register and that accounting for fixed assets is in accordance with Companies Act and appropriate accounting standards.

• Be aware of opportunities to develop income for the Trust and its academies.

• Ensure that monthly management accounts and other ad hoc reports as required are prepared on a timely basis and provided to the CFO along with appropriate management commentary comparing performance against budget and analysing variances.

Management Information Systems & Information Technology

• Develop and manage the budgeting module of the financial system for the Trust.
• Implementation of new systems, as required
• Oversight of the school census procedures

Human Resource Management

• Monitor the operation and effectiveness of financial policies and procedures and provide support where necessary.

• Manage the processes relating to payroll administration.

• Line Management responsibilities:
• Management and co-ordination of support staff as required.
• Oversight of school-based staff carrying out finance duties and ensuring that these duties are carried out in line with the Trust’s Scheme of Delegation/ Financial Regulations/ Academy Trust handbook. Represent support staff at relevant meetings.

• Deployment of staff, including recruitment.

Other Responsibilities

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
• Be aware of and support difference and ensure equal opportunities for all.
• Contribute to the overall Trust values.
• Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.
• Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.

Safeguarding

Be aware of and comply with safeguarding responsibilities as outlined in the school’s Staff Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Data Protection and other statutory responsibilities

Be aware of and comply with data protection responsibilities as outlined in the school’s Staff Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Other Duties

Any other duties that the Executive Team feel is commensurate with the post. Whilst every effort is made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post each individual task undertaken may not be identified.

Benefits include: LGPS Pension, Employee Assistance Program including access to GP phone and video consultations, physiotherapy and counselling, a well-being day, flexible working and CPD opportunities.

Interviews will take place shortly after the published closing date or when a suitable number of appropriate applications have been received, so early submissions are encouraged. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and we reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Creative Learning Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to clearance from the Disclosure and Barring Service, references and medical clearance.

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About The Creative Learning Partnership Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Creative Learning Partnership Trust website (opens in new tab)
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We currently have nine Trust schools within our Trust, including a Special School, First Schools, Primary Schools and a Middle School with children from the age of three months up to 13-year olds. Our schools are very different and have their own identity. Each school is unique and as a Trust we learn from each and every school. They exist in different communities, in different contexts but are united by the vision of the Trust and a focus upon our champion children.

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