Job Description

Spencer Academies Trust

Senior Finance Partner

Salary/Pay Scale: NJC33 - NJC37 (42,708 - 46,731)

Full time, 37 hours, all year round

Interviews on 9th May 2025

Do you want to become part of a highly successful Multi Academy Trust where our mission is to provide high quality education and deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people?

If so then we definitely need to hear from you.

Due to the successful growth of our Trust we are seeking to appoint a dedicated, reliable and highly-motivated Senior Finance Partner to complement our existing central team. The successful candidate will lead a team of finance partners, working in conjunction with the wider finance team to provide a comprehensive and accurate financial accounting service to the schools across the Trust. As part of an excellent team you will be given extensive support to develop to your full potential both in this role and beyond.

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have over 18,500 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2,800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 18 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

? All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.

? Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a 'family' and are open to a true sense of partnership.

? We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust's high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact the CFO on rhudd@spencertrust.org.uk

How to apply:

Applications for this post must be submitted on our online application form, which can be found at http://www.satrust.com/vacancies In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for prior to interview.

Closing date for applications 2nd May 2025

Interviews will take place on 9th May 2025

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

You can also submit an application form by using our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on 'Register' to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on 'Sign In'.

Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the 'Apply Now' button at the bottom of this page.

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 42,708.00-46,731.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person