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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a high-profile integration project, aligning finance processes, strengthening financial controls, and improving reporting across the ULaw Group following an acquisition. You will be a technically strong accountant with a strategic yet hands-on approach, confident working independently at a senior level to resolve complex challenges.
Responsibilities
- Lead finance integration activities, aligning processes, controls, reporting and ways of working.
- Review payables, receivables, balance sheets, reconciliations and month-end / year end processes, resolving accounting and data quality issues.
- Review existing process maps, identify inefficiencies and control weaknesses, and implement sustainable improvements.
- Assess finance processes and controls within Unit4 Agresso to improve consistency, accuracy and efficiency.
- Work closely with Finance Directors and improvement teams to drive delivery and embed changes.
- Communicate progress, risks and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent experience).
- Proven experience delivering finance integration, financial due diligence or finance transformation projects.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including payables, receivables, balance sheet reconciliations, financial controls and month-end reporting.
- Experience mapping processes, identifying root causes and implementing practical improvements.
- Confidence engaging senior stakeholders and communicating financial risks and recommendations.
- A hands-on, proactive approach, with the ability to work independently, manage ambiguity and deliver results.
- Experience integrating finance functions following an acquisition or other organisational change.
- Experience using Unit4 Agresso.
- Experience in higher education, private education or another complex, multi-entity organisation.
- Must be able to prove the right to work in the UK.
Skills
- Finance integration
- Financial due diligence
- Finance transformation
- Technical accounting
- Payables
- Receivables
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Financial controls
- Month-end reporting
- Process mapping
- Stakeholder engagement
- Communication
- Unit4 Agresso
Location
- Remote
- London
- Moorgate
- Woking
Work Type
- Full-time
- 12-month fixed-term contract
- Hybrid
- Remote/homeworking
Experience Level
- Senior level
- Head of Finance Integration
Education Level
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent experience)
Salary/Compensations
- Up to £82,750
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days plus bank holidays
- Access to a wide range of staff and student discount platforms
- Private Medical Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Season Ticket Loans
- Student Discounts
About the Company
- The University of Law (ULaw) is continuing to invest in its future.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse student population. We actively seek to increase representation across all backgrounds and identities, and we provide support and adjustments throughout the recruitment process.