Finance Officer

Location: Empowering Minds Academy Trust

Workign Hours: 37 hours per week, term time plus 20 days to be worked across the academic year during the school holidays. To be in agreement with the Trust. Part-time may be considered for the right candidate.

Contract Type: Permanent

Start Date: As soon as possible

Closing Date: 27th November 2026

Proposed Interview Date: 3rd December 2026

We are a family of schools which values and embraces diversity and uniqueness across our trust and in our communities. We empower our children, staff, and wider communities to be ambitious and be the very best that they can be, in order to have the confidence to achieve their chosen place in society. We will achieve this through strong relationships, resilience, support, challenge, motivation and positivity. We aim to provide strong, ambitious and inspirational leadership in every school so that every pupil and every member of staff is encouraged to achieve more than they thought possible. Our learning evolves and adapts, moving toward our vision of aspiration.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to equality of opportunity in the services provided to customers and all aspects of employment. We warmly welcome of applications from all sectors of the diverse community. Our recruitment policies, procedures and practices enable all applicants to be considered on merit and ability to do the job. We will make reasonable adjustments, in line with the Disability Discrimination Act, for disabled applicants if these are needed.

We are seeking:

Empowering Minds Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic Finance Officer who will be a key member of the trust central team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing and successful trust and to help in the next stage of its development.

The successful candidate will work under the direction of the CFO to assist with the central trust financial and budgeting duties to ensure the delivery of a professional, efficient and effective service across the MAT. Main duties will involve the responsibility of up to two academy budgets and associated administration to include organising pay and contract changes with accuracy and attention to detail.

Please see the attached application form together with full job description and person specification. If you have the qualities and experience and would like to be part of our team please send your completed application form to:

For further details, or an informal chat, do please send an email to the address above. Please note that, we are not able to accept CVs all applications must be on the form provided.

For a full application pack visit empoweringmindsmat.uk which includes the Person Specification and Job Description

For more information please contact – dsmeaton@empoweringmindsmat.uk