Overview
Hours of Work: 36.5 hours per week.
Contract type: Permanent, all year round. The role is hybrid with at least 3 days onsite.
Salary: Grade 5, SCP 32 to 40, £42,839 to £51,356
Start date: December 2025 or sooner
Closing date: 29 September 2025
Address: EIAT, Wood End Road, Erdington, B24 8BL
Enhanced DBS Check Required: Yes
Education Impact Academy Trust is a flourishing Multi Academy Trust (MAT) incorporating Wilson Stuart School, Mayfield School, Queensbury School, The Hive College, Blue Sky Nursery and Lime Tree Nursery. We strive to ensure that all establishments are improving because they are part of EIAT and seek to share best practice and work in cohesive, collaborative and innovative ways. Our ethos is ‘Better Never Ends’.
As part of the ongoing development of our Trust team to support our establishments, we have a new opportunity for an experienced Finance Manager to join our team of professional and dedicated staff. The finance function has recently gone through a period of significant change, including migrating to a new finance system (Xero with Planergy for purchasing) and moving to the Department for Education’s Chart of Accounts (CoA). This is an exciting time to join our team and to have a significant influence our ways of working and ultimately decision making though the use of reliable and timely financial information to benefit our Trust and most importantly our students.
The ideal candidate will:
* Have significant experience of the academies or education sector and specifically operational budget monitoring for multiple establishments;
* Have strong leadership skills and experience of managing a team;
* Be able to use financial information to help non-finance leadership with decision making;
* Be able to work independently and manage time effectively across sites and in a remote working environment;
* Be comfortable with communicating effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders; and
* Have integrity, enthusiasm and commitment.
Informal conversations are warmly welcomed. If you would like to arrange an informal visit, please email hr@educationimpact.org.uk
We can offer:
* A collaborative and inclusive culture;
* A committed, hardworking team who strive to provide the best education for all students;
* Comprehensive induction and probation support and regular opportunities for professional development and growth;
* We offer 10 staff training days across the academic year; one or two of these days are disaggregated which means you complete training outside of normal working hours in twilight sessions and take the actual training day off;
* Employee Assistance Programme via BHSF - free totally confidential support;
* Access to discounts and offers via BHSF;
* Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) for support staff; and
* Generous annual leave entitlement for support staff based on length of service, starting at 29 days pro-rata, rising to 32 at 5 years’ plus service and 34 following 10 years’ plus service.
If you are determined, ambitious, hardworking and you meet our requirements, then we would love to hear from you.
The Trust is committed tosafeguardingand promoting the welfare of pupils and expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable), qualifications, medical fitness, identity and right to work. All applicants will be requiredto providetwo suitable references. An online search (and a prohibition check for teachers) will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
To read a copy of ourSafeguardingand Child Protection Policy please click on the link below:
Policies (educationimpact.org.uk)
To read our policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders please click on the link below:
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This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement of the role.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020, which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’,so they do not need to be disclosedto employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:
DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Interviews: w/c 6 October 2025
Early applications are encouraged, and applicants may be invited to interview prior to the closing date.We reserve the right to closethisvacancy earlyif a suitable candidate is appointed before the closing date.
Please note that only Trust application forms will be accepted. We will not read accompanying Curriculum Vitaes (CVs) or accept them instead of an application form.
If you have not heard from us two weeks after the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful.
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