Associate Director of Finance

4 weeks ago

King's Cross, Greater London, United Kingdom University of the Arts London Full time

The opportunity

University of the Arts London is looking for an experienced Associate Director of Finance to assist with the delivery of our financial strategy, covering this key role on an interim basis whilst the post holder takes paternity leave. This post reports to the Director of Finance and will be key in continuing the development and delivery of the strategy.

As Associate Director of Finance - Financial Performance Reporting & Analysis, you will provide senior leadership on all aspects of financial performance reporting and analysis to inform fact-based decision making across the University. You will oversee the budgeting, reporting, and forecasting processes at the University and ensure these are optimised.

You will also lead the production and consolidation of financial management information for University leadership, Governors and external bodies, including the production of the statutory accounts. We are looking to develop our data and reporting in the next 12 months and experience of delivering initiatives with impact in these areas is key.

The post holder is required to be an active member of the Finance Department's senior leadership team, building the capability of the function to deliver an outstanding customer service and student experience.

About you

Our finance professionals bring with them a diverse range of skills and experience from a variety of professional sectors. We welcome qualified accountants with experience of working in large complex organisations. This may already be within Higher Education or further afield where multiple stakeholder accountability can be demonstrated.

Key to this role will be your demonstrable ability to analyse and explain complex information, through effective design and collation of relevant, well presented financial analysis and reports (text and numeric).

If you have significant experience of the development, implementation and evaluation of business and strategic plans, coupled with experience of developing data and reporting tools, we would like to hear from you.

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 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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Closing date: 23:55 on 6 th May 2024

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

Our culture

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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