Finance Manager (111758-0626)

Duration: Fixed-term contract for 14 months.

Additional Payments  

A £5,000 per annum market supplement (pro-rated and non-pensionable) is available for the successful applicant on provision of proof of current membership of an approved accounting body and evidence they hold the appropriate accountancy qualifications.

About the Role  

Informal Queries

• For informal queries about the role, please contact Aarifah Pearce (Chief Finance Officer) at Aarifah.Pearce@warwick.ac.uk

Flexible Working

• We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis (e.g. job share), despite the position being advertised as full-time.
• We welcome applications from candidates seeking a minimum of 32.5 hours per week (0.9 FTE).

The Finance Office is looking to recruit a Finance Manager to provide accurate and timely management information to senior University management, Chairs of academic departments, Heads of administrative departments, Directors of commercial activities and for inclusion in reports to external government bodies, in order to aid planning, control and decision-making, especially in the deployment of University resources.

Established in 2000, WMS is home to the UK's largest graduate-entry MB ChB programme. WMS also offers opportunities for undergraduate study, full and part-time research degrees as well as professional development across the healthcare sector. Alongside a range of educational opportunities, WMS has a reputation for research excellence, investigating solutions to significant global health challenges. For more information, see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/about/.

Part of this role will include being the finance lead for our Research portfolio, managing a team of 2. The Research portfolio is typically c.£20m in the following areas:

• Clinical trial activity developing new care and treatment plans (Warwick CTU being the 2nd largest in the UK),
• Laboratory based research developing new understanding of cellular activity and human pathology,
• Health Science’s research across varied activity such Mental Health, statistical population analysis and tackling global health problems.

This role will also be the key finance contact for 2 of the research focussed directorate groups, the Clinical Trails Unit (CTU) and Biomedical services (BMS), working in a business partnering capacity, answering questions, producing quarterly forecasts and the annual 5 year plan. 

About You  

You will have an honours degree or equivalent and will draw on technical expertise gained in obtaining a professional accounting qualification. You should have broad experience within a finance function (including a working knowledge of tax), be a good communicator and have experience of working with non-finance professionals. Management experience would be ideal.

You will be a leader and strong communicator, who has the technical skills to develop and deliver excellent financial information and advice to support WMS researchers and management in their work. Thereby enabling growth in research and making sure that income is maximised and costs represent best value. 

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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