Will Jordan is the Education Strategy Director at PS Financials, part of the IRIS Education Division. Will has worked with academies since the first ‘phase two’ academies opened in September 2010. As a qualified accountant, previously an auditor with a regional audit firm, he has a deep understanding of the education sector and has been involved with the conversion and on-going support of hundreds of academies nationwide. Will has worked with many of the largest and fastest growing MATs in the country, helping them to achieve best practice, automation and ensuring that greater efficiency/control can be achieved within their back-office finance teams. Will is also a Non-executive Director at a multi academy trust in Devon.
Since its earliest days, the academy movement has provoked fierce debate on the merits of centralisation. For some schools, a centralised management model...
