Trust Financial Controller

Trust Financial Controller

Full time, all year round

Salary £40,876 - £44,863 NJC 37-41

Starting as soon as possible

We are looking to appoint a friendly, outgoing and experienced financial controller to join our central finance team. The successful candidate will be qualified to CAAB or CIMA or be time service QBE with proven experience of working at this level. The post holder will work with the Director of Finance to develop and maintain appropriate financial controls across the Trust, supervising the processing of all financial data to ensure, accuracy and appropriateness in line with finance regulations and external regulators.

Whilst the primary location will be the Trust offices at George Spencer Academy you may be required to visit or work from other schools within the Trust.

Overall Purpose of Post

The post holder will support the Director of Finance to ensure appropriate financial controls across the Trust and to further develop systems and process to better able timely and accurate management reporting to stakeholders across the organisation. In addition, the post holder will provide oversight of the delegated financial management of the academies to ensure sound and appropriate financial governance and risk management arrangements are in place.

The post holder will supervise the processing of all financial transactions through the financial and accountancy systems to ensure the provision of accurate and timely financial information to Director of Finance, Finance Managers, the academies management, Spencer Academies Trust and external bodies as required.

The post holder will line manage posts within the Finance Team, as appropriate to the team structure at the time and will support the Director of Finance with performance management, ensure appropriate performance of all team members and where appropriate support under performance in line with SAT policies.

Spencer Academies Trust

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 16000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 15 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

Applications for this post must be submitted on our online application form, which can be found at http://satrust.com/vacancies or by clicking the "apply now" link.

In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for prior to interview.

Closing date for applications: 12pm Monday 28 June 2021

Interviews likely to take place: Week commencing 5th July 2021

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.