Chief Financial Officer

The Cowplain School wishes to appoint a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to replace our existing colleague who is retiring after a long and successful career with the academy.

As your role is leading finance in a single academy trust, you will have responsible for the overall performance of finance within the academy, ensuring long-term financial sustainability.Working with the Principal in his role as Accounting Officer, you will deliver operational rigour and strategic direction, providing accurate and effective information to the Principal, SLT and Board of Trustees.

You should be someone who has a strong financial background and who can think strategically, creatively and innovatively, whilst being commercially astute. As you will be working with young people, you also need a passion for working in an educational environment and must be able to form positive relationships with key stakeholders, including trustees, staff, parents and children.

This is an exciting time to be joining the school as we continue to expand and build on the success of the last few years during which we have significantly invested in the school site. Our intake each year has increased as more and more families choose Cowplain for their child and with this increase in students comes an increase in income and subsequent investment.

We have some exciting projects in the pipeline which will require your expertise and commercial acumen to deliver successfully and you will play a key role in ensuring they are delivered successfully and on budget.