Finance Manager

Location: Coleridge Community College, Cambridge

Salary: Circa £45,000

Contract type: Full time, permanent

United Learning Trust is seeking to appoint a finance professional for the role of Finance Manager supporting our five established schools in Cambridge.

These schools are Cambridge Academy of Science and Technology, Coleridge Community College, The Galfrid Primary School, Parkside Community College and Trumpington Community College.

The successful candidate will manage a small team and work closely with the schools’ Principals and Senior Leadership Teams as well as the Trust’s Finance Business Partner and Management Accountant to provide prudent oversight and management of the schools’ finances.

Responsible for preparing budgets and feeding into annual forecasting you will provide all aspects of financial management and control for the United Learning Cambridge Schools Cluster; including purchase order approvals, regular collaborative meetings with the Principals and ad hoc financial reviews and analysis.

Our schools are part of United Learning, one of the country’s leading multi-academy trusts. We serve more than 64,000 pupils and support around 10,000 staff in our​schools, and we offer a growing range of additional services, including teacher training, professional development programmes, and a full curriculum package for schools. ​Everything that we do is geared towards improving life outcomes for young people. We also believe in offering our staff 'more pay, more time and more support'. ​

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group we can reward our staff with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits and ultimately the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing and have an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Employees will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.