Capital and Fixed Asset Finance Business Partner

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Capital and Fixed Asset Finance Business Partner to play a key role in ensuring the accurate recording and reporting of all fixed asset expenditure across both the College and the Trust. This pivotal position will support robust management accounts, statutory reporting, and external compliance requirements, providing clear, reliable financial insights that underpin effective decision-making. If you are detail-driven, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to a high-performing finance team within a values-led educational organisation, we invite you to join us.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate recording, reconciliation, and reporting of all fixed asset and capital expenditure across the College & Academy Trust, supporting both management accounts and statutory reporting.
• Prepare and maintain capital expenditure reports, project actuals vs budget, and annual summaries for Finance Board papers, ensuring timely submission of all required returns.
• Manage and reconcile the fixed asset register, working closely with IT and Finance teams to ensure correct capitalisation, depreciation, disposals, and asset transfers.
• Monitor and report capital funding allocations, highlighting risks, managing invoicing requirements, and supporting capital cashflow reporting.
• Support internal and external audit processes, maintaining compliance with financial regulations, policies, and external reporting standards.

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience in finance, particularly in capital accounting or fixed asset management, ideally within an education or not-for-profit environment.
• Strong technical skills in financial reporting, reconciliation, depreciation, and capital expenditure processes.
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to analyse data, identify risks, and ensure accuracy across financial records and systems.
• Effective communication and partnership skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with Finance, IT, Facilities, and external stakeholders.
• Strong organisational abilities with experience meeting strict deadlines, managing multiple projects, and maintaining high standards of confidentiality and compliance.

What the school offers its staff

OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:

Rewards & Benefits:

• Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
• Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.

• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
• Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
• Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
• Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.