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The UCL Finance department is divided into 4 Directorates: Management Accounting, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Finance Business Partnering and Financial Services. They are responsible for the central management of UCL's financial performance and strategy and for the provision of services and advice. We currently have one vacant position for Finance Business Partner within the Finance Business Partnering team. The team forges strong relationships with stakeholders to enable expert advice, critical challenge and timely decision support to enable the best financial performance. The team is responsible for building trusted relationships and providing professional financial advice to UCL stakeholders.

About the role

As one of our Finance Business Partners you will build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with senior managers and their teams. You will be expected to lead on financial and resource matters; influence decision making; improve the understanding of business performance; support business strategy development; deliver analysis and insight on business opportunities; and provide options and scenarios for business decisions. This high profile and vital role provides wide ranging support on strategic and financial matters across their business area and the wider University as relevant. This will include drawing on finance experts to support complex or large projects to ensure the technical finance support is focused on the appropriate areas. This is a new and exciting job which will be fundamental in supporting the finance function to provide an excellent service to the University. There will be the opportunity to drive change and improve decision making across the University. A full range of duties can be found on the attached job description.

About you

To do this job you'll need to:

• Be a fully qualified accountant (CCAB) with evidence of up-to-date technical knowledge

• Have experience of working in a Business Partnering role within a complex organisation

• Have demonstrable negotiation, relationship building, and conflict resolutions skills

• Possess excellent communication skills, ensuring clarity of messages, ideas and facts

• Have experience of delivering financial analysis and producing reports to non-finance staff, demonstrating measurable outcomes

Please ensure you carefully review our job description before applying and that your application reflects the essential and desirable criteria as much as possible.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

• Immigration loan

• Relocation scheme for certain posts

• On-Site nursery

• On-site gym

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.