Finance Business Partner

5 days ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE08 (£42,149 - £50,296 pa)**
**Open Ended**
**Full time (35 hours per week)**

**The Opportunity**:
We are looking for experienced finance professionals to deliver an outstanding finance business partnering service to our stakeholders. Finance Business Partners will work closely with senior management teams providing strategic insight, analysis and advice to deliver sustainable financial performance aligned with the University’s 2030 Strategy. Finance Business Partner roles are available across the following budget areas of the University:

- College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
- College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine
- College of Science & Engineering
- Corporate Services Group

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Degree or equivalent with a relevant professional financial/accounting qualification (e.g. ICAS, ICAEW, CIMA or CIPFA), or substantial vocational experience demonstrating development through involvement in a series of progressively more demanding work/roles
- A proven track record of relevant financial and administrative experience at a management level, preferably some in an HE environment with experience of leading and managing significant projects and budgets.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, proven ability to explain complex finance concepts and the implication of financial decisions to non-specialists, excellent analytical skills and excellent IT skills (in particular, design and use of complex spreadsheets).
- Very good interpersonal, people management and time management skills, with proven ability to influence others to achieve aims and evidence of successfully developing own team
- Self-motivated, able to work both independently and collaboratively, able to initiate and organise activities and projects and to manage and develop self and others.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence you r right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
The Finance Department is responsible for the effective financial management, stewardship and long-term financial health of the University, which has a turnover in excess of £900m per year. It exercises control over the University’s finances, provides expert financial guidance particularly for key decision making, and provides an effective services and information for the financial conduct of the University’s business. It follows core values and behaviours to value and strengthen its team and delivery of its services - One Team; Expert; Innovation; Customer Focused; and Transparent.



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