Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
SHARE Multi Academy Trust
Kirklees
- Expired
- Salary:
- Highly Competitive Salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2022
Job overview
Due to retirement of the current postholder, the Board of Directors is seeking to appoint a Chief Financial Officer. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing and highly successful trust, to help lead us in the next stage of its development. The successful candidate will work closely with the CEO and the board, to manage our finances effectively and help us achieve our strategic objectives.
The CFO will provide leadership to the finance management team for the efficient execution of both financial and management accounts, procurement of resources and services as well as fulfilling audit requirements to deadline.
The ideal candidate will:
- be experienced in a finance leadership role;
- have an understanding of the financial framework academy trusts operate within;
- will be appropriately qualified and experienced, possessing accountancy qualifications from a recognised professional body, such as the ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA;
- understand the principles of spending public money wisely in line with best value;
- be an effective leader and communicator;
- demonstrate proactivity, influence, honesty and possess strong communication skills.
At SHARE MAT, we aim to:
- equip our staff to deliver their best every day, our belief is that ‘Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best’ is the key;
- provide a safe, attractive and stimulating learning environment for every learner;
- ensure each academy will be financially robust, able to withstand future funding pressures;
- ensure our pupils have access to the best learning resources available.
We offer a generous benefits and training package. We believe in investing and supporting our staff, as well as giving people ownership of their responsibilities. This is a role in which you will get the chance to thrive.
The central finance team is based at Shelley College, which is located within the beautiful surroundings of nearby Shelley village with panoramic views of Emley and the Holme Valley.
Due to the safer recruitment requirements for staff working in education, we cannot accept CVs.
Closing date: 9.00am on Monday 5th December 2022.
Interviews will take place at Shelley College on Tuesday 13th December 2022.
SHARE MAT is committed to the Equalities Act 2010 and also to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children and young people, by adhering to the “Keeping Children Safe in Education” guidance. All staff and volunteers are regularly trained regarding our expectations in keeping our students safe. An enhanced DBS is required for every post.
SHARE MAT comprises of Woodside Green Primary, Heaton Avenue Primary, Luck Lane Primary, Millbridge Primary, Royds Hall Academy, Shelley College, Whitcliffe Mount School and Thornhill Community Academy. A central team provides operational support.
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About SHARE Multi Academy Trust
- SHARE Multi Academy Trust
- Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield
- West Yorkshire
- HD8 8NL
- United Kingdom
The Trust officially started operating on 1st April 2015 and the members consist of:
- Heaton Avenue Primary Academy
- Lily Park Primary Academy
- Luck Lane Primary Academy
- Millbridge Primary Academy
- Woodside Green Primary Academy
- Royds Hall Academy
- Shelley College
- Thornhill Community Academy
- Whitcliffe Mount School
Our aims
To create a mutually supportive family of schools, sharing expertise and resources, to improve the quality of education for our children and young people.
Our values
Our central belief is “Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best” and we apply this to everybody in our organisation, staff and children alike. We try our best to support and encourage each other, we work hard at communicating effectively and we always try to achieve the very best we possibly can in the circumstances. We review our practice honestly and are always open to suggestions as to how we can improve further.
Professional development
Professional and career development is at the heart of what we do. In addition to our supportive appraisal systems, staff have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including internal training sessions, external courses and sharing best practice across the trust.
We are extremely pleased to have the Calderdale and Kirklees Teaching School Hub based at Shelley College, delivering teacher training (ITT), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the National Professional Qualifications.
Across our partner schools there are Subject Experts, Specialist Leaders of Education, Excellent Practitioners, trained Coaches and Mentors, as well as Outstanding Leaders offering support and training. We offer the opportunity of a career development programme that could take teachers on a journey from trainee to senior leader and beyond.
Location
We are in located in the Huddersfield/Kirklees district, with many of our schools in close proximity to a number of towns and cities including Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield. Due to the excellent road links, journey times are minimal, with many of our staff travelling from these areas on a daily basis.
Benefits
We believe in making the world a happier place to work. We do that by providing a package of flexible employee benefits, including:
• An attractive pension scheme for both Teaching and Support Staff.
• Care First – an employee assistance programme providing staff well-being support, including amongst other things: counselling, telephone helplines and stress management.
• Salary sacrifice benefit schemes - salary sacrifice enables staff to give up some of the cash value of their pay to receive other benefits which saves on tax and national insurance. The Trust currently runs the following salary sacrifice schemes:
- Cyclescheme – savings of up to 39% on the cost of a new bike.
- Techscheme – savings on the cost of desktop machines, laptops, Apple products, phones and software.
Recruitment process
Once you have completed and submitted your application form it will be reviewed by the shortlisting panel. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview via email, so please ensure you provide us with your email address and check it regularly after the closing date.
Referees will be contacted via email prior to interviews as references need to be returned to us before any offer of appointment can be made, for safer recruitment purposes. Please ensure you provide a contact email address for both of your referees.
And finally
Good luck in your application!
We look forward to hearing from you.
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