Senior Finance Business Partner – London College of Fashion

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: Hybrid – LCF East Bank Stratford/Home
Salary: £50,961 to £61,398 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

As the Senior Finance Business Partner for LCF you will be responsible for the financial planning, financial reporting, and analysis together with the college finance operations.  Supporting the LCF College Management team, the postholder will play a key role in strategic decision-making within the College and provide financial analysis to monitor the delivery of the University’s strategic objectives.

The successful candidate will work closely with their peer group in the other colleges and in professional services to align reporting, processes and drive change, as well as lead and manage the LCF college finance team, ensuring the provision of accurate and timely financial information and delivery of a professional service to a wide range of stakeholders.

About you

The successful person will have:

• Qualified with a recognised Accounting Body (ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW or equivalent)
• Experience of business partnering at a senior level, working with large data sets to lead the financial planning and budget setting, preparing information for senior management to ensure informed decision making in a large, fast paced complex organisation.
• Experience of providing leadership and management of a finance team to deliver continued improvement and change.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial information in a range of formats to a diverse audience.
• Advanced Excel and IT skills. Experience with Agresso Business World/ Excelerator is highly desirable
• Experience of working for higher education sector is desirable, but this is not essential

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Hazel Bailey, Resourcing Adviser via email at PSOstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk 

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 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth 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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