Junior Finance Business Partner

The opportunity
University of the Arts London (UAL) is seeking a talented and motivated Junior Finance Business Partner to join our friendly and supportive Academic Colleges Finance Business Partnering team on a part-time basis.

You will provide a comprehensive and customer-orientated business partnering service to budget managers from across the University, providing relevant financial information that will facilitate the smooth running of the costing and budget monitoring process.

Drawing on your in-depth, professional knowledge, you will work closely with budget holders to develop budgets and support month-end processes, ensuring these processes are completed in line with agreed approaches and to tight deadlines.

You will seek to establish close working relationships with the College and relevant stakeholders, in order to develop a full understanding of activities, deliverables, and operational challenges.

You will also ensure that all transactions are recorded correctly within the finance system, performing relevant checks to confirm that tax, legal, financial, budgeting, HR and Payroll requirements have been fully considered and met correctly.

Your role shall involve maintaining Agresso Business World and iTrent coding structures to meet business reporting requirements, alongside training ABW users to ensure expenditure items are approved in line with financial protocols.

About you
You will be actively studying for a professional accounting qualification and you shall be educated to degree level in a relevant subject area.

You will demonstrate a good knowledge of finance and management information needs, knowledge of finance information systems and an understanding of financial management controls and procedures.

You will have previous experience of financial planning, budget setting, management accounts and variance analysis, as well as experience of explaining financial information and producing management accounts to tight deadlines.

You shall also be experienced in utilising financial systems such as Agresso Business World.

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.

For further details and to apply please click the 'Apply' button.

Closing date: 23:55, 24^th September 2025.

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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