FINANCE OFFICER

Start date to be agreed with successful candidate

Are you an experienced finance professional looking for an opportunity to develop your accounting and supervisory skills within a high-performing multi-academy trust?

The GORSE Academies Trust is seeking a motivated and organised Finance Officer to join our central finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the trust’s financial operations, ensuring robust financial controls, accurate accounting processes, and exceptional service delivery across our establishments.

About The Role

Reporting to the Chief Accountant, you will be responsible for coordinating the trust’s day-to-day financial and accounting activities, ensuring financial information is processed, recorded and reported accurately. You will supervise and allocate work to Finance Administrators, maintain compliance with trust Financial Procedures, and provide guidance and support to finance colleagues across the Trust.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Supervising and supporting Finance Administrators.
• Ensuring compliance with Financial Procedures and accounting controls.
• Managing bank reconciliations and payment processes.
• Acting as a key point of contact for finance and procedure queries.
• Maintaining accurate financial records and controls.
• Driving continuous improvement within finance processes and systems.

About You

We are looking for someone who has:

• A recognised accountancy qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) or is currently studying towards qualification.
• Experience in a finance, accounting, or financial administration environment.
• Previous supervisory or team leadership experience.
• Strong ICT skills, including advanced Excel and financial management systems.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills and a commitment to delivering excellent customer service.
• Knowledge of academy or school finance would be advantageous but is not essential.

What We Offer You

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

About Us

Led by Sir John Townsley, GORSE has a well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.

Our 15 academies, our central team, our Teaching School Hub and GORSE SCITT work in a tightknit manner which sees our students prospering as a result of great partnership. Our professionals recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations work with integrity, moral purpose and determination.

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