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About the Role
This role is within the Finance team at City St George’s, University of London, which has been restructured to create a more integrated, agile, and resilient function. The role strengthens the ability to sustainably meet the evolving demands of the University.
Responsibilities
- Ensure delivery of financial performance in partnership with the School in line with the University Financial Plan.
- Influence decision-making, drive change, and foster collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Manage stakeholders and budgets.
- Perform financial planning, forecasting, and year-end delivery.
- Provide training for budget holders.
- Deliver insightful financial reporting and analysis, including staffing, student numbers, Programme profitability, and business cases.
- Ensure robust controls, compliance, value for money, and continuous process improvement.
Requirements
- Degree educated (or equivalent experience).
- Significant accounting expertise.
- Strong financial management skills.
- Customer-focused.
- Highly organised.
- Ability to manage competing priorities to tight deadlines.
- Ability to work independently with sound judgement.
- Strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
- Ability to build relationships.
- Ability to influence stakeholders.
- Ability to solve complex problems.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, accountability, governance, compliance, and value for money.
Skills
- Financial performance delivery
- Stakeholder management
- Budget management
- Financial planning
- Forecasting
- Year-end delivery
- Financial reporting
- Financial analysis
- Staffing analysis
- Student numbers analysis
- Programme profitability analysis
- Business case development
- Control implementation
- Compliance assurance
- Value for money assessment
- Process improvement
- Interpersonal skills
- Analytical skills
- Relationship building
- Influencing
- Problem-solving
Location
- City St George’s, University of London
Work Type
- Internal applicants only
Experience Level
- Post-qualification experience (desirable)
Education Level
- Degree educated (or equivalent experience)
- Qualified accountant status (desirable)
Salary/Compensations
- Sector-leading salary
Benefits
- Pension scheme
- Comprehensive package of staff training and development
About the Company
- City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions.
- It brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.
- The combined university is one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science, and technology.
- The University's students are at the heart of everything that they do, and they are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.
- The University's research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.
Equal Opportunity
- City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students, and visitors.
- Applications are welcomed regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.
- City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.