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Financial Controller

Academy Transformation Trust

Birmingham

  • £55,000 - £65,000 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
£55,000 - £65,000 spot salary
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
23 September 2025

Job overview

37 hours per week, All Year Round
Hybrid working – Head Office and home based
To start as soon as possible

Academy Transformation Trust is on the hunt for an exceptional Financial Controller. As part of its evolution of the Trust's finance function, ATT is looking for an individual that will bring ideas, energy and enthusiasm to a pivotal role within the team.


You will be brave, bold, conscientious, resilient and with a keen eye for detail. Solutions-focused, well organised and strong at influencing others, you will play a key role in strengthening the financial compliance and reporting of ATT whilst demonstrating a considerable and quantifiable impact on the financial performance of the Trust.

At Academy Transformation Trust, we’re on a mission. We want to transform education, performance and lives, and we’re giving young people the best possible start to their careers across our fast-growing network of academies. A not-for-profit trust, we focus on our students’ interests in everything we do, and we are passionate about using innovative technology to accelerate learning. We work inclusively within our communities, embracing the varied localities we serve while sharing our common vision and values. At ATT we are passionate about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and welcome all applications.

If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Abbie Poulton, Head of Finance via email at abbie.poulton@attrust.org.uk
In return, we offer to you:

  • An amazing people development offer through our ATT Institute providing you with continuous self-development.
  • A comprehensive package of benefits via our benefits platform. You will enjoy a generous pension scheme, shopping discounts, cycle-to-work scheme, cinema tickets and an employee assistance programme.
  • We are happy to talk flexible working with all applicants for all roles.
  • Local Government Pension Scheme
If you would like further information about the role, please contact Abbie Poulton, Head of Finance, by email: Abbie.Poulton@attrust.org.uk

For more information and to apply, please visit our vacancies page.

Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 23rd September 2025.
Interview date: 30th September 2025.

Please apply early as this vacancy may close early if a suitable application is received.

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE 2025. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working. We are a Disability Confident Employer.





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About Academy Transformation Trust

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Welcome to Academy Transformation Trust, a not-for-profit charitable trust of 22 schools across central England, including primary, secondary, special, and further education.

At ATT, we believe that education can be transformative. With many of our academies in areas where high levels of social disadvantage have too often adversely affected young people, we aim to provide every ATT learner with the support, encouragement and high-quality education they need to achieve the best possible start to their future.

Our Four Critical Questions guide us in everything we do, whilst the principles of Challenge, Support and Intervention help us to constantly reflect on and improve our approach. Our model of aligned autonomy is a real strength of our Trust. It allows our expert education team to align best practice and high standards across all our academies, whilst implementing targeted support unique to each school’s local need. Over the past two years, this approach has had a profound impact, evidenced in successive positive Ofsted inspection outcomes.

As well as investing in our learners, we’re proud to be an organisation that invests in its staff. Our ATT Institute works hard to deliver a broad offer of CPD to our 1,800 colleagues, ensuring that all staff have the opportunity to grow their skillset and develop in their career, no matter their role.


Our Priorities

  • Achieve greater alignment of culture and routines.
  • Map processes to achieve greater efficiency.
  • Improve attendance.
  • Align curriculum and improve student outcomes.

Our Performance: Ofsted

We’ve achieved a long run of consecutive positive outcomes from Ofsted inspections. Nineteen of our academies are rated Good; one is rated Outstanding; the academy most recently inspected, after single-word judgements ceased, is Good in 3/4 key areas; the final academy has not yet been inspected.

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