Finance Excellence

Our principles align with our Trust strategy; the Five Pillars and the Nolan principles of public life.  

Our core purpose is to ensure we gain the best value for money from all resources within the Trust including staff being as effective and efficient as possible to provide the best opportunities for all students:

1. Ensuring we have an overall balanced budget that supports the current needs
2. Ensuring every colleague in every role is as good as they can be be in what they do and how they do it
3. The best use of internal and external resources to provide an offer that represents good value for investment, both financially and through the impact seen on colleagues and pupils
4. A strong accountability framework that places pupils at the forefront of decision making

The Finance Excellence teams core offer is agile and resilient, while working in partnership with all schools to drive the vision and delivery of the Trust strategy. Led by Julia Finch, Director of Finance, the team consists of Finance Business Partners who have responsibility for supporting schools directly with budget management and planning and developing financial systems that support processes and controls needed.