Location: | Leeds |
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Salary: | £48,149 to £57,422 per annum (Grade 8) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 9th May 2025 |
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Closes: | 22nd May 2025 |
Job Ref: | CSFIN1340 |
Location: Leeds - Main Campus
Contract type: Ongoing
Interviews expected to be held on 2nd and 3rd June 2025
This role will be based on the University campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.
Do you want to directly support the achievement of the University and Faculty’s strategic objectives, helping to balance academic and financial considerations? Are you passionate about being a strategic business partner? Can you bring leadership with outstanding service and deliver in a fast paced, complex and challenging but rewarding environment?
As an experienced business partner, you will develop and implement detailed and robust financial plans and be able to understand and interpret complex financial information. You will require excellent communication skills with a proactive and engaging manner, combined with experience to develop networks and influence outcomes.
In this role, working within the Faculty of Environment, you will be responsible for shaping and supporting the delivery of strategic plans, driving financial sustainability, identifying and managing financial risks. You will ensure that all aspects of the team's work, including financial plans, forecasts, statutory returns and monthly accounts, are prepared effectively, robustly and accurately and that they provide a basis for sound strategic and operational decision making. You will deputise for the Faculty Head of Finance and line manage the Faculty finance team, being responsible for managing workload and developing and motivating the team.
With a CCAB (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) qualification and/or extensive business partnering and senior level management accounting skills and experience, you will have strong line management experience, strong interpersonal skills, resilience, and the ability to build credibility and trust with a wide range of people.
This post is within the University Finance Service; it is located in the Faculty of Environment. However, should the business need arise, and after full consultation with you, you may be deployed elsewhere within the Finance Service.
Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
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To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Seema Verma, Head of Faculty Finance
Email : s.verma2@leeds.ac.uk
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