Research and Knowledge Exchange Contracts and Finance Manager

East Bank Stratford, London UK

London College of Fashion is seeking a commercially astute Contracts & Finance Manager to strengthen financial control, governance and structured delivery across a growing portfolio of industry partnerships, consultancy and executive education activity.

This is a pivotal operational role within the Research and Knowledge Exchange (RKE) function, responsible for ensuring that commercial activity is financially robust, contractually sound, risk-managed and delivered through disciplined project management processes.
 
LCF’s Knowledge Exchange portfolio is expanding across consultancy, executive education, funded programmes and strategic partnerships. We require a commercially focused professional who can bring financial rigour, governance oversight and structured project delivery to a complex and multi-stakeholder environment. 

You will play a central role in embedding project management discipline across the portfolio ensuring projects are scoped appropriately, financially viable, risk assessed, actively monitored and evaluated post-delivery. 

About you 

We are seeking a commercially disciplined professional with experience in budgeting, raising contracts, operations, project management, analysis and evaluation.

You will demonstrate: 

• Strong financial analysis capability, including forecasting and performance tracking.
• Demonstrable project management experience across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Experience overseeing full project lifecycles, from scoping and risk assessment through to evaluation.
• Experience maintaining risk registers and operating within governance frameworks.
• Experience conducting financial and reputational due diligence.
• Experience producing structured post-project reporting and impact analysis.
• Proficiency in Salesforce or comparable CRM systems.
• Strong analytical judgement, organisational discipline and attention to detail.
• Confidence operating in a regulated and compliance-driven environment.

Private-sector candidates from commercial operations, consultancy, professional services, research management or partnership-led organisations are particularly encouraged to apply.

If you have any general questions or have accessibility needs, please contact lcf.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk 

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Closing date: 22 April 2026 23:55. 

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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