Job Description

Tudor Grange Academies Trust

Solihull
41,511 - 44,711 per year

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

13 July 2025

Job overview

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About this Role

As Trust Finance Manager, you will lead a team of five direct reports--four based onsite at the central office and one based offsite. You will ensure the smooth and accurate processing of all transactional finance activities and be responsible for managing the Trust's ledgers up to and including the preparation of the month-end trial balance.


This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, has a passion for finance, and possesses strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. You will play a vital role in supporting and coaching your team, stepping in to provide hands-on support when needed, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our finance function.

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Key Responsibilities

Lead and manage the transactional finance team, ensuring high standards of accuracy and efficiency. Oversee the processing of financial transactions and maintain accurate ledgers. Prepare and review month-end trial balances. Support the DCFO in delivering a responsive and effective finance service across the Trust. Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Provide coaching and development to team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
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What We're Looking For

Full AAT qualification (Level 4) or other equivalent financial qualification (essential). Proven experience in a finance management role, ideally within a multi-site or educational setting. Strong leadership and team management skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. A proactive, organised, and detail-oriented approach.
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Additional Information

Occasional travel to Trust schools may be required to support offsite team members. Flexible working arrangements are available, subject to operational needs and training requirements during the probation period. Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme is automatic, with generous employer contributions of over 20%.

The recruitment process is robust in seeking to establish the commitment of candidates to support the Trust's measures to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and to identify, deter or reject people who might pose a risk of harm to children or are otherwise unsuited to work with them. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and safeguarding checks.

About

Tudor Grange Academies Trust

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Tudor Grange Academies Trust

Dingle Lane, Solihull
West Midlands
B91 3PD
United Kingdom

+44 121 705 5100

Tudor Grange Academies Trust is a family of academies with a shared ethos, common values and collective goals. We are working together in a model of meaningful, focused collaboration to achieve excellence in our schools.



We are driven by four key values:


Our children will live 'Happy, fulfilling lives' Outstanding teaching and learning is our core focus Outstanding Governance supports our schools Leadership and professionalism drives continuous improvement

OUR STORY SO FAR...

Tudor Grange Academy in Solihull has always been a Beacon of excellence. Its focus on continuous improvement and belief that high quality teaching and learning is at the core of great schools has ensured that it has maintained its outstanding provision year on year.



Having secured outstanding provision for the students in their care, the Governors of Tudor Grange School, as it was, developed an ambition: every child deserves an outstanding education, not just the children within their school. They supported staff within Tudor Grange to engage fully in a wide range of national and international partnerships focussed on improving provision in schools. The Academies programme then provided an opportunity for them to sponsor a school in challenging circumstances, taking full responsibility for the quality of this provision and therefore potentially enabling them to realise their ambition.



In September 2009 Tudor Grange School, Solihull sponsored Tudor Grange Academy Worcester (TGAW). In November 2013 TGAW was graded 'Good' for overall effectiveness and 'Outstanding' for leadership and management and behaviour and safety; the school is now oversubscribed and the school of choice within its local community. This partnership provided a blueprint for Tudor Grange Academies Trust, ('TGAT' or the 'Trust'), the Governors recognising how much Tudor Grange Academy Solihull had achieved but also learnt and benefitted through this process.



The success of the sponsorship of the Tudor Grange Academy, Worcester and the recognition of what school to school collaboration in a long lasting and hard relationship could achieve, gave rise to the vision for Tudor Grange Academies Trust: a group working together in a model of meaningful, focused collaboration to achieve excellence in their schools.



The Trust, as at April 2022, is a Trust of twelve schools: five secondary, one all through academy and six primary academies. The core vision of the Trust is to develop a Multi Academy Trust of six secondary schools, all within one hours travelling distance from Solihull, and groups of primary feeder schools around the secondaries which all exploit the benefits of a model for school to school partnership as in the model we have established through the relationship between Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St James and Tudor Grange Academy, Solihull.



Our core values underpin the strategic vision for the Trust: we aim to be one of the top 3 performing MATs in the country. We understand that this is extremely difficult to measure and indeed that there is, as yet, no real consensus as to what a fair measurement looks like. However, we are confident that we know what is important and therefore a sharp focus on what we consider to be critical will ensure we become the provider of choice in the communities we serve:

'EVERY CHILD DESERVES AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATION.'



Our values inform key performance indicators; we constantly look at how close we are to achieving our vision. Maintaining a focus on what we consider to be important drives critical conversations, informed by the views of all our stakeholders and all the information we have about our schools. Restlessness characterises all our academies: we are not afraid to challenge complacency and weaknesses identified are seen as opportunities to improve, the energy and drive for the ceaseless journey comes from our key ambition: 'Every child deserves an outstanding education.'

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