University of Warwick Finance

Discover exciting careers across a range of finance teams at Warwick

Warwick is a world-leading university with the highest academic and research standards. We are a place of possibility that consistently makes an impact on a global scale.

Our finance colleagues are integral to the University’s success. Working alongside colleagues across campus, our expertise underpins business planning and innovation and ensures that the University maintains its reputation for financial integrity and reliability.

Our campus and our activities are complex. With over 7,000 staff and nearly 30,000 students, our annual turnover is in excess of £800m. Our activities include significant commercial operations as well as our academic activities. Our ambitious plans include investing over one billion pounds in the University campus over the next decade. In our fast-paced and dynamic environment, sound financial management is critical to our ongoing success and sustainability. Our finance staff are valued partners who inform and influence decision-making at every level. If you are looking to develop your skills in an ambitious, purpose-led environment that values innovation and a commitment to excellence, take a look at our current opportunities.

Whether you join us as a trainee, part-qualified, newly qualified or experienced finance professional, you will be joining a great team where you will be encouraged and supported in your career journey. With over 200 finance roles across the University, there are endless opportunities to progress your career, whether by gaining experience across our various teams or by developing sector leading expertise in one of our specialist teams. Either way, we will support your professional development through our internal training and support networks, formal CPD training and access to a great study support package to work towards a finance qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA, CIPS or SAP). Sponsorship is available for staff with identified leadership potential to complete the Warwick MBA.

Whilst we offer hybrid working, all our staff have access to a Finance Office workspace every day. We enjoy being part of our campus community and encourage our teams to get involved. Finance Office has an active social scene, and we benefit from being located in the heart of a beautiful campus that offers a wide range of opportunities to get involved with sports, arts, creative and lifelong learning activities. Why not come and see for yourself?

Our business areas

  • Department Services (including departmentally based finance teams)
  • Research Finance
  • Student Finance
  • Financial Control
  • Group Accounting
  • Treasury
  • Tax
  • Corporate Finance
  • Purchasing and Insurance
  • SAP & Financial Systems
  • Financial Assurance
  • Administration

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Rosie Drinkwater
Hear from Rosie Drinkwater OBE, the University’s Group Finance Director.
Rosie leads the Finance and Estates Group at Warwick, with a particular focus on strategy and strategic projects.

“Warwick is renowned for the quality of its professional services and the finance team is no exception. The strength of our financial position has enabled us to take the leaps that established us as a top-10 Russell Group university in what is, in UK Higher Education terms, a very short time. As we continue on our innovative and ambitious trajectory in really quite challenging times, we need that strong financial underpinning now more than ever.

When you join Finance you become an integral part of a network of over 200 staff and there are fantastic opportunities for career progression. I joined Warwick in 1993 as a Senior Assistant Finance Officer and gained invaluable experience in a number of positions before being appointed Group Finance Director in 2011.

I’m proud of how Finance staff contribute to the University’s success and that we are very much at the heart of the University community. I would love for you to join us on this exciting journey as Warwick strives to bring together our unique strengths of academic excellence, industrial partnerships, creativity and enterprise to plan with confidence for a more impactful future.”