Finance Officer

About this Role

Join a brilliant team and organisation who really support your development.

Wellspring Academy Trust is looking to recruit a self‑motivated, customer‑focused, organised individual to this post within a dynamic growing organisation. The Finance Team undertakes the financial processing and budget monitoring support currently for 33 academies and a number of internal business units.

Candidates must have experience within a finance office in the education sector and be a minimum of AAT qualified level 4.

The post holder will support the Senior Finance Officers, whilst overseeing a portfolio of Academies and business units to whom they will provide direct financial support. This includes:

• Working alongside Principals to prepare and monitor Academy budgets, preparing monthly budget monitoring reports and scrutinising budget variances.
• Development and review of multi‑year budgets linked to Academy strategic and operational plans, estates strategies, asset replenishment cycles, and the Trust long‑term plans.
• Maintaining multi‑year budgets and undertaking financial modelling and scenario planning using the Trust budget modelling software.
• Undertaking month‑end processes including reconciliation of account balances, processing of journals and in‑depth review of the financial position, updating future forecasts as required.
• Ensuring compliance with the Trust Financial Regulations.
• Ensuring compliance with the Trust Financial Assurance Framework incorporating the requirements of the DfE Academy Trust Handbook.
• Provision of financial support to schools outside of the Trust as required.
• Supporting financial due diligence checks of new schools joining the Trust.
• Supporting the bidding for and securing of external funding.

If you would like any further information on the role please contact Rhian Gregory at r.gregor

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children and vulnerable adults in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults.

References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance ther pre‑employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under‑represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. If you require any support with completing your application, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

If you are currently living overseas or have lived/worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.