Finance Manager

The Role

United Learning Trust is seeking to appoint a finance professional for the role of Finance Manager supporting our five established schools in Cambridge. These schools are Cambridge Academy of Science and Technology, Coleridge Community College, The Galfrid Primary School, Parkside Community College and Trumpington Community College. The successful candidate will manage a small team and work closely with the schools’ Principals and Senior Leadership Teams as well as the Trust’s Finance Business Partner and Management Accountant to provide prudent oversight and management of the schools’ finances.

You will work with the Executive Business Manager in providing high quality strategic financial planning to ensure that all schools make the best possible use of its resources and can provide the best outcome for students.

Responsible for preparing budgets and feeding into annual forecasting you will provide all aspects of financial management and control for the United Learning Cambridge Schools Cluster; including purchase order approvals, regular collaborative meetings with the Principals and ad hoc financial reviews and analysis. Your priorities will be to ensure timely processing of transactions by the finance team and prudent financial management within budget for each of the schools.

We will offer you:

·        Community spirit in each of our inclusive and welcoming schools

·        Excellent facilities and resources

·        Talented, supportive and professional colleagues

·        Excellent training and development opportunities

·        Opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in our cluster of schools and Central Office

·        Access to the enhanced Local Government Pension Scheme

·        30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays

·        Enhanced parental leave options

·        Access to over 250 employee benefits through Perkbox

·        Free and Confidential Counselling and Support through an award-winning EAP and access to a free Wellness Hub

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details.

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The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Employees will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.

United Learning

We are part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group we can reward our staff with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits and ultimately the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing and have an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation, which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are also open to discussing flexible working options.