Finance Support Officer

Salary: £36,000 – £38,400 per year

Dedicate Recruitment is seeking an experienced Finance Support Officer for an established multi academy Trust in the West Midlands.

Reporting to the Schools Support Manager (SSM), your role is to support the schools in the Trust with their financial management and to ensure financial procedure is complied with. In addition to this, you will assist the SSM in welcoming new schools to induct and advise them on budget setting and produce financial models for their longer-term plans.

Key responsibilities will be to support school office staff and Heads of School to prepare the annual and 5 – year budgets, monitoring reports and projections and contribute to financial reports for audit.

The ideal candidate will previously have worked as a School Business Manager or similar, with experience of monitoring and setting budgets with an interest in education finance. A certificate in School Business Management or the AAT qualification is desirable.

You will have exceptional communication skills and are adept in forming positive relationships quickly. You will be flexible and self-motivated as you will be required to visit all schools across the Trust which are set across the regions of Telford, Staffordshire, North Warwick and Stratford Upon Avon. A car driver is essential for this post.

This is a fixed term, 12-month contract with potential for hybrid working when not required on school site. Excel skills to Intermediate level is a minimum requirement for this post. 

Immediate interviews for suitable candidates.

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