Why choose SIMS Finance?

  • Complete financial management from one platform, purpose built for academies and MATs

  • A consolidated financial view across a single academy or multi-academy trust

  • Powerful reporting tools to help report, monitor and improve financial activities

  • Supports full DfE and ESFA compliance with automated digitised accounts return submission

Who benefits and how?

Finance Directors

Finance directors will be able to produce clear and concise financial statements and analyse their data to understand trends for cost savings and growth opportunities.

Business Managers

Business managers and finance staff are equipped with effective management tools like budget monitoring, forecasting and cashflow statements. These will improve financial reporting and save time.

MAT Senior Leaders

A graphical, consolidated view of an organisation’s financial position provides MAT senior leaders with essential information, quickly alerting them to any areas of concern. The in-depth financial analysis will assist in key decision making and future planning.

Budget Holders

From finance to teachers and support staff, with SIMS Finance everyone in your organisation benefits from streamlined digitised essential financial processes like purchase ordering and approvals. Plus budget statements with expenditure breakdown are emailed directly to you.

SIMS Finance has allowed us to aggregate our finance data across our trust and we are confident we are meeting ESFA requirements. I am a big fan of SIMS Finance. I would recommend SIMS Finance to any academy or MAT. 

Mike Fowler, Strategic Finance Officer, The Wythenshawe Catholic Academy Trust

Key benefits for you and your organisation

  • Provides a real time clear consolidated view of your finances with options to drill down to greater detail as required

  • Powerful reporting tools assist with academy comparisons and help better inform decision-making

  • Customisable workflows with full auditing streamline your approval processes

  • Seamless integration with SIMS Personnel to save you time

  • Automates your Academies Accounts Return submission ensuring compliance and saving you time and money

  • Budgeting and modelling functionality included as standard

  • Cloud based, easily accessible 24/7 on any smart device with unlimited user log ins

  • GDPR compliant, fully secure and encrypted for complete reliability

The team at SIMS have been working with the ESFA to implement the automated element of accounts return into their software. I am happy to say this has now been fully tested, and SIMS Finance and FMS are able to take advantage of the automation solution provided by the ESFA.

Ankit Shah, Better Financial Reporting Programme, Operations Directorate, Department for Education

Download our latest brochure for more details and see what
SIMS Finance can do for you and your organisation today.

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SIMS Finance brochure Feb 21

As a Multi-Academy Trust of 8 Primary Schools and 1 central entity, consolidation of monthly accounts always proved difficult on 9 stand-alone systems often taking a number of days to ensure ESFA compliance. Moving over to SIMS Finance has saved us time and reduced the ability for manual errors.

Not only has the  remote system moved us into the 21st Century it has proved invaluable in the last year to ensure the business can still operate in lockdowns, self-isolation periods and really has proved that it is the most valuable tool to ensure business continuity. The system is slick, easy to use and I would recommend undoubtably.

Tommy Cullen, COO at Stour Academy Trust

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