Trust Finance Assistant

Trust Finance Assistant Scale 4 (pt 8-9) Salary: £27,553 - £27,983 (FTE) * inc. Fringe Allowance Actual salary: £16,353 - £16,608 *based on Essex Schools Pay Scales 2025/26 25 hours per week across five days; Monday to Friday As a Trust Finance Assistant, you will provide essential accounting and administrative support to the central finance team, helping to ensure the efficient delivery of financial services across the Trust. You will support schools with day-to-day financial processes, promote compliance with policies and procedures, and build strong working relationships with colleagues to deliver a high-quality finance service. Information about the School Discovery Educational Trust, formed in 2014, is a successful and established multi-academy trust based in South Essex, comprising just under 4000 pupils and 500 staff, across 5 schools. Our schools are: Chase High School (Westcliff-on-Sea) St. Martin's School (Brentwood) Hogarth Primary School (Brentwood) Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School (Brentwood) Larchwood Primary School (Brentwood) We aim for each of our schools to become the school of choice within the community, offering a broad and exciting range of extracurricular activities to enhance the opportunities within their formal curriculum. Our vision is that strong and effective leadership places our children and young people at the heart of everything we do. We value relationships, which are open and honest, underpinned by kindness, trustworthiness and compassion. We offer ongoing training and professional development for all staff in a supportive and collaborative environment. We offer the following benefits for employees: Pension scheme - also automatically includes Life Assurance Generous Referral Bonus for employees who refer quality candidates to join Discovery Educational Trust Two-week October half term (term time staff) Employee savings and discounts Employee Assistance Programme - free confidential wellbeing support for employees and dependants Mental Health First Aiders - we have qualified MHFA England trainers within the Trust and continue to add to our pool of trained MHFAs Bike2Work scheme Ongoing training and professional development in a supportive and collaborative environment Gifted Service Leave for long service Health Cash plan to support with every day healthcare costs - e.g. dental, optical, physiotherapy. Includes Virtual GP service As an equal opportunities employer, Discovery Educational Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age; disability; gender re-assignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race (which includes ethnic origin, nationality and ethnic or national origins); religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgro