Strategic Finance Partner Deputy Lead (North)
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | G10, SCP 40–44, £42,404- £46,464–Pay Award Pending |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2024 |
| Location: | Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, ST7 4DL |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | eTeach UK Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1414690 |
Summary
The regional Strategic Finance Partner - Deputy Lead is responsible to the Strategic Finance Partner Lead and will assist them with the oversight of financial planning and management of the Trusts schools. You will be supporting a portfolio of the Trust’s Northern based schools, which involves a combination of working on site at the relevant school, working from home and travel to head office for meetings so a full UK driving licence and access to a car are essential.
Working with a range of stakeholders across the Trust, they will support the Strategic Finance Partner Lead to ensure that the Trust operates good financial governance in line with the requirements of the Academies Financial Handbook published by the Education Funding Agency (EFA), the Trusts Financial Scheme of Delegation. They will contribute to strategies that minimise financial risk and enable financial compliance and accuracy of financial data and reporting across the schools within the Trust.
The postholder will ensure that the Shaw Education Trust (including its constituent academies) complies with all relevant laws and regulations and statutory requirements within areas of responsibility, and ensuring effective governance, systems of internal controls and compliance with SET policy and procedures. You will also be the main liaison with the school’s leadership on financial matters. Provide high level professional financial advice and support to Principals and Academy Councillors enabling local short- and long-term strategic financial planning.Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
Cycle to work scheme
Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one. Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or socioeconomic status. In doing this, we are able to help ensure all children are able to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.
Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
We also encourage collaboration within and between our academies, creating a community of professionals who share a wide range of valuable experience and specialist knowledge. This is supported through our creation of a network of ‘hubs’ across our schools, covering all teaching subjects and operational areas. Our regular hub meetings enable staff members to stay up-to-date with latest guidance and skills, as well as collaborate and practice share with others from different school settings.Working hours: 37 hours per week, full time, all yearLocation: Hybrid, Remote with travel to schools and Head Office
Working with a range of stakeholders across the Trust, they will support the Strategic Finance Partner Lead to ensure that the Trust operates good financial governance in line with the requirements of the Academies Financial Handbook published by the Education Funding Agency (EFA), the Trusts Financial Scheme of Delegation. They will contribute to strategies that minimise financial risk and enable financial compliance and accuracy of financial data and reporting across the schools within the Trust.
The postholder will ensure that the Shaw Education Trust (including its constituent academies) complies with all relevant laws and regulations and statutory requirements within areas of responsibility, and ensuring effective governance, systems of internal controls and compliance with SET policy and procedures. You will also be the main liaison with the school’s leadership on financial matters. Provide high level professional financial advice and support to Principals and Academy Councillors enabling local short- and long-term strategic financial planning.Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
Cycle to work scheme
Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one. Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or socioeconomic status. In doing this, we are able to help ensure all children are able to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.
Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
We also encourage collaboration within and between our academies, creating a community of professionals who share a wide range of valuable experience and specialist knowledge. This is supported through our creation of a network of ‘hubs’ across our schools, covering all teaching subjects and operational areas. Our regular hub meetings enable staff members to stay up-to-date with latest guidance and skills, as well as collaborate and practice share with others from different school settings.Working hours: 37 hours per week, full time, all yearLocation: Hybrid, Remote with travel to schools and Head Office