Senior Finance and Procurement Officer

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University of Birmingham Full time

**Position Details**

IT Services

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Grade: 7

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 26th February 2024

**Our offer to you**

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

**Background**

The ITS Finance and Procurement team sits within the Portfolio and Project Management Office within IT Services at the University of Birmingham. This team works with colleagues in IT Services, with the University’s central Finance and Procurement departments, and has regular contact with finance and procurement stakeholders across the University.

This team supports all IT strategic and operational finance and procurement activity, including financial planning, forecasting, monitoring and reporting, ITS procurement process design and procurement support. The team provides end-to-end finance and procurement support to the ITS project portfolio from idea stage through to the management of any ongoing or recurrent spend beyond the implementation stage and into business as usual.

**Role Summary**

The Senior Finance and Procurement Officer role provides reporting, tracking and the analysis of financial information to assist with day-to-day financial management and strategic decision making in IT Services.

This role also provides consistent procurement advice, guidance and support within IT Services and across the University for a wide variety of IT and digital resources regardless of value, technology or platform.

This role works with the University’s Finance and Procurement teams and also has close working relationships with operational managers and budget holders within IT Services and with the ITS Supplier Relationship Management team.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the implementation of some key Digital initiatives that will transform our staff and student experience and contribute to the delivery of our University strategy.

**Main Duties**
- Provide ‘best practice’ and consistent knowledge and advice relating to all aspects of ITS financial and procurement processes and the understanding of management information.
- Develop and share learning resources to increase awareness and consistent behaviour.

**Finance**
- Carry out activities to support the University’s financial cycle including tracker updates, journaling, quarterly forecasting, month end and year end activities.
- Review the financial position of specific areas of ITS capital, pay and non-pay activity using reports available from the Finance system and local trackers.
- Analyse information, investigate queries and communicate findings in a clear way to budget holders and stakeholders.
- Provide one-to-one and small group financial support, reporting and guidance to ITS budget holders and teams on both a regular and ad hoc basis.
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