Finance
Our finances are managed effectively with outstanding internal and external financial audits.
When your school joins our Trust we take a deep dive into the financial situation and will help guide your school into a strong financial position. We have termly meetings to review budgets to keep on top of the finances and are always available with on-going support, advice and assistance.
Our Central Finance Hub will help you manage and maximise your day-to-day finances and provide:
- Complete in-house Payroll processing including all pension and HMRC payments and returns
- Accounts including monthly budget monitoring reports, KPI reporting and management accounts and any other bespoke reporting required
- Financial modelling
- Budget planning and 3 year forecasting
- Procurement
- Sales invoicing
- Debt collection
- Bank account management and reconciliation
- Petty Cash
- Purchase Cards
- ParentPay and Cashless catering
- Internal Scrutiny audits and annual external audits
- Additional Funding opportunities and Grant applications
- Compliant reporting to Companies House, ESFA, DfE and other Government departments
The team also take care of the education funding returns and the prescriptive trustee meeting such as Finance and Resource and Audit and Risk.