Finance Manager

Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust (C.H.A.T.) is the Charitable Trust set up to run and manage four Primary and one Secondary Academies serving approximately 1800 children. Based in Edmonton we are focused on driving up the quality of education provision and standards. To help achieve our vision we are recruiting a Finance Manager to use their experience in strategic and operational finance issues to support our schools and Finance Director in ensuring value for money and effective financial stewardship.

As Finance Manager you will make a difference to the lives of students and staff by helping shape the finance team and system infrastructures as well as overseeing our procurement process. Your remit will involve developing and delivering a monthly financial reporting timetable including preparing the monthly management accounts. As our technical expert on academy-specific accounting treatment, regulations and statutory reporting you will ensure accuracy of information, timely delivery and compliance. Whether completing month end reconciliations, managing the accounting books and records or liaising with external auditors you will play a key role in the success of the Trust.

You will also work with the Finance Director to produce regular variance and key ratio and trend analysis as well as ensure VAT compliance and treasury management. You will review and improve systems and controls as well as oversee purchasing activities to guarantee best value for money.

For this high profile role you must have substantial experience in an academies environment and solid technical expertise. You will be studying for professional qualifications or qualified with ATT, ACA, ACMA or CIPFA accreditation. You will have extensive accounting system experience (ideally PSF) and a record of successful financial management of an organisation with large and complex budgets including restricted and unrestricted income.

Comfortable operating in a changing and increasingly complex regulatory environment you will be used to working in a multi-faceted organisation and managing changing and competing requirements. A good communicator you will be customer focused and able to demonstrate a good understanding of best practice. Experience of working with MATs would be an advantage.

If you have the skills and enthusiasm to contribute to the development of a growing, highly successful organisation please visit our website and apply online.

Please note that successful applicants will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.