Junior Finance Business Partner – Knowledge Exchange
Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: Hybrid – CSM King’s Cross/Home
Salary: £38,359 – 47,109 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time
Job description
The opportunity
University of the Arts London (UAL) is seeking a talented and motivated Junior Finance Business Partner to join our friendly and supportive Central Finance Business Partnering team on a full-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 and manage budgets, support the quarterly forecasting process, and key decision making, ensuring these processes are completed in line with agreed approaches and to tight deadlines.
You will seek to establish close working relationships with Knowledge Exchange (KE) stakeholders, in order to develop a full understanding of activities, deliverables, and operational challenges. This understanding will help you to provide advice on KE project costings, delivering relevant information that will support their decision making.
You will also ensure that KE projects are recorded correctly within the finance system, performing relevant checks to confirm that tax, legal, financial, budgeting and HR and Payroll requirements have been fully considered and met correctly
The scheduled interview date is Thursday 19th September 2024 and the closing date is Tuesday 10th September 2024.
If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at psostaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.
About you
You will be educated to degree level in a relevant subject area and will be actively studying for a professional accounting qualification. 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, forecasting, management accounts and variance analysis, as well as experience of producing and explaining financial information and management accounts to tight deadlines
We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.
We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.
We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.
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