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Finance Business Partner - Shaw Education Trust

Employer
Shaw Education Trust
Location
The Lodge, Milehouse Lane, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 9JU
Salary
Salary £36,876- £40,760 (Pro Rata)
Closing date
1 Nov 2019

Finance Business Partner

Shaw Education Trust seeks applications from excellent candidates for this exciting opportunity.

Start date: As soon as possible

Contract type: Part Time (18.5) Permanent, (Term Time)

Location base: Negotiable (Midlands)

Grade 10

Salary £ £36,876- £40,760 (Pro Rata)

                                                                                                                                   

We are a rapidly growing Multi Academy Trust who lead and manage academies in all phases, all sectors and in all communities. We believe that all children should have the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point. We pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals for all young people in our academies.

Shaw Education Trust is currently comprised of 19 academies. We have other schools joining us imminently across the North West, West Midlands and East Midlands.

We are looking to appoint a part-time Finance Business Partner to offer proactive and outstanding Finance support to our Academies, primarily across the Midlands. (Derby, Birmingham, Lichfield)

Linking with our existing central finance team the successful candidate will provide both strategic and operational finance support to an assigned geographic client base of academies. You will act as an internal consultant and finance resource for senior leaders, managers and employees and proactively respond to the ongoing requirements. This includes providing, professional direction and support, whilst being a commercially aware, focused Business Partner.  The Finance Business Partner will conduct in depth and comprehensive analysis in relation to all financial data available in the academies ensuring that any trends and/or variances are investigated fully and all relevant and appropriate investigations and subsequent actions are reported upon and dealt with in line with financial regulations. You will assist in the preparation and production of the balanced consolidated annual budget for submission to the Executive Finance Manager all within agreed time-scales.

You will add value by managing and maintaining an effective system of internal control, including monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of the accounting systems and processes in all academies, ensuring adherence to relevant finance policies and procedures and reporting relevant information to the Executive Finance Manager. The Finance Business partner will additionally support the perfect execution of financial management processes and procedures and assist the senior leadership team with policy development.

We welcome applications from a CIMA/AAT qualified professional who has the enthusiasm and ambition to deliver a first class finance function in a rapidly growing Multi Academy Trust. The successful candidate will have the aspiration to help us make Shaw Education Trust ‘Best in Class’  and will need to have excellent communication skills in order to build strong working relationships within the Trust and with the Senior Leaders they will be supporting.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  This position is subject to an enhanced criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.

Further details on the position and how to apply can be viewed on our website www.shaw-education-trust.org.uk/careers. Completed application forms should be sent to the recruitment@shaw-education.org.uk  mailbox.  For any further queries relating to this post please contact Heather Bayliss, 01782 948250.

Closing date                1st November

Shortlist                      w/c 4th November

Interviews                    w/c 11th November

 

 

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