Head of Academic Finance

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The opportunity

Reporting into the Associate Director of Finance (Academic Finance and Business Development), the post holder will provide strong leadership and management for the college-based finance teams, ensuring the teams deliver an effective financial management and business partnering service to the college and operate in accordance with the overall university framework. You will be a positive driver of change and they will develop a culture of continuous improvement within the college finance teams.

About you

The successful candidate will have:

• A full professional accounting qualification.
• Experience of working in a fast-moving financial environment, working to key milestones and delivering comprehensive results to tight deadlines.
• Experience of working with large data sets, ability to write and develop financial models and reports using excel at an advanced standard.
• Experience of working across a large complex organisation and successfully influencing and managing change.
• Experience of leading and managing a large team to deliver agreed objectives and goals.
• Brilliant communication skills, experience being a driver for change and bringing about continuous improvement.
• Ideally, a background working in the higher education or wider public sector, but this is not essential.

Closing date: Monday, 27 March 2023 at 9am.

First stage interviews are due to take place the week commencing 27 March 2023.

For further information and to apply, please click the link to Head of Academic Finance post or contact our retained advisor, Kathryn Moss, Senior Consultant at Robertson Bell via email at UAL@robertsonbell.co.uk or on 0203 824 7100.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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