"Head of Finance Business Partnering (London)"

About the Job:

This role is responsible for delivering the Financial Management team’s support to budget holders across the University in London (excluding Careers and Enterprise), ensuring robust reporting, forecasting, business case support and effective use of finance systems and processes.

You will:

• Deliver timely, accurate monthly management accounts and capital reporting, providing clear variance analysis, risks and actions, and agreeing next steps with budget holders.
• Lead budgeting and in-year forecasting for assigned areas, ensuring clear processes, robust outputs and budget holder accountability.
• Provide high-quality financial advice, analysis and business case support, including commercial input to proposals and post-implementation review of arrangements.
• Maintain and improve finance processes and systems (including Unit4 reporting and budgeting tools), ensuring efficient, compliant reporting and supporting statutory/regulatory audits and returns.

About You:

You will be a qualified finance professional with strong business partnering capability, able to support senior budget holders and lead effective financial planning and performance management.

You will bring:

• CCAB accounting qualification or CIMA qualification.
• Experience of management accounting, business partnering, and financial budgeting and forecasting.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to negotiate and influence peers and build effective networks outside Finance.
• The ability to manage multiple deadlines under pressure, analyse complex problems with limited data, provide commercially sound advice, and deliver customer-focused solutions.

You will demonstrate a strong customer focus and a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, aligned with the University’s values of Passion, Inclusion and Courage.

Benefits Package

At UEL, we believe that a great role is about more than just a salary. It’s about the complete package, including our outstanding work environment and inclusive culture. We offer a genuinely competitive salary, dependent on experience (DOE), and a range of excellent benefits.

You can explore our full benefits package here

Further Details

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