Senior Finance Officer

Location: Life and Mind Building, Oxford, OX1 3EL 

Join the Department of Biology Finance Team

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a proactive and experienced Senior Finance Officer to thrive in a dynamic and busy finance team, providing management accounting support and ensuring compliance with University financial policies. Acting as the main point of contact for finance-related queries, you will deliver expert advice and support on a wide range of financial matters fulfilling compliance requirements and driving best practice within the department. You will contribute towards financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting.

You will have management responsibility for Finance Assistant(s), balancing workloads, supporting development, and maintaining key performance dashboards. This role offers the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment and contribute to the success of a world-class research department.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a proactive and experienced Senior Finance Officer to thrive in a dynamic and busy finance team, providing management accounting support and ensuring compliance with University financial policies. Acting as the main point of contact for finance-related queries, you will deliver expert advice and support on a wide range of financial matters fulfilling compliance requirements and driving best practice within the department. You will contribute towards financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting.

You will have management responsibility for Finance Assistant(s), balancing workloads, supporting development, and maintaining key performance dashboards. This role offers the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment and contribute to the success of a world-class research department.

The Department of Biology was formed in August 2022, merging the previous departments of Plants Sciences and Zoology. The department explores the breadth and diversity of life on earth at multiple scales in an increasingly interdisciplinary manner, and builds on a history of high-quality research from staff and students while continuing to inform and shape the direction of international bioscience research and policy.

How to apply

The University of Oxford is committed to equal opportunity, and to being a place where everyone belongs and is supported to succeed. We recognise how the diversity of our community enriches our ability to deliver on our academic mission.

This post is full time and the post is available immediately.

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 30th January 2026, interviews are likely to be scheduled for late February. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via our e-recruitment system, and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. 

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