Finance Business Partner

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced financial professional to play a key role within University of the Arts London's (UAL) Finance team.

 

As a Finance Business Partner, you will work closely with senior colleagues from across the University to ensure that the College Finance team provides an efficient and effective financial service to internal and external stakeholders. You will adopt an agile approach to your work, developing relationships and influencing decision making to support long term financial sustainability.

 

In addition to this, you will also be responsible for delivering effective support for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and providing financial analysis to monitor the delivery of the University’s strategic objectives.

 

This role offers the chance to further your finance career, whilst working within a dynamic business partnering team with a wide range of experience.

Your profile

We are looking for an individual who possesses or is working towards a recognised accounting qualification (CIMA, ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent).

 

Along with your strong leadership and communication skills, you will demonstrate experience of building effective relationships with budget managers across an organisation.

 

You will have experience of working in a fast-moving financial environment, working to key milestones and delivering comprehensive results to tight deadlines. In addition to this, you will possess experience of working with large data sets and will be confident in writing advanced financial reports in excel.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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If we receive a high volume of applications, the closing day date might close early. We aim to communicate any changes to the closing date with at least 24 hours’ notice. If you have any general questions or have accessibility needs, please refer to our Contact us page.

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