Carly Beale

Carly joined the team in April 2023, bringing 20 years of strategic and operational financial management experience. She is a Fellow Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians, has previously held the role of Finance Director in a growing MAT, and has supported several MAT’s, across various Local Authorities as an independent Finance Consultant.

Carly has vast experience of budget setting, centralisation, statutory reporting, developing financial policy and practice, internal and external audit, procurement, system implementation, academy conversion and education specific challenges. She has also worked in other public sector organisations such as Local Authority and NHS.

Passionate about people and personal development, Carly recognises that her role in finance is about more than the numbers and strives for collaborative working, with ‘Children First’ at the heart of all decision making.