Chief Financial Officer

CFO, Centurion Multi-Academy Trust

Salary: L1 £49,781 to L5 £54,939
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Start Date: 01.09.2025
Apply by: 02.06.2025

Job Overview:

  • Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week
  • Contract all year round (25 days holiday , plus bank holidays)
  • Salary: Scale Point L1 to L5, Actual Salary £49,781 to £54,939
The Trust is seeking a dynamic Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to play a pivotal role in shaping the Trust’s financial future. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader, able to balance oversight of operational excellence with high level strategic insight, ensuring long-term financial health and growth.
This is a great opportunity to join a values driven Trust at an exciting stage of our development. You will be a key member of our trust’s leadership team, working closely with the CEO and other leaders to develop and implement strategy and to resource and deliver the organisations strategic objectives sustainably.
The CFO is expected to bring a modern commercial approach to the leadership of the financial function, running a highly competent efficient service as well as ensuring the financial health of our organisation. You will bring experience of lateral thinking when it comes to realising the financial and business opportunities within our Trust.
The CFO is directly responsible to the CEO, who is Accounting Officer, and ultimately responsible for proper financial conduct of the institution. The CFO will provide advice on strategic financial issues and be responsible for financial and business management and for the leadership of our small financial team.
Centurion Multi-Academy Trust is a thriving, forward thinking Trust that is very much part of the local community in North Tyneside.  Our main priorities are our children, and we work with our families and wider communities to support success within their educational journey.   We are a Trust that encourages and celebrates a love of learning – where each pupil is known and cared about as an individual.
To apply and find our more about our trusts please have a look at our website www.centurionmat.org.uk which has links to all of our academies.
Application packs can be requested from and returned to: info@denbighps.org.uk
Application deadline: 02.06.2025
Interview Dates: 19.06.2025
Centurion Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the welfare and safety of all our pupils, and as such rigorous DBS and employment checks will be carried out.