Finance Business Partner

**UE08 £42,149 - £50,296 (per annum)**

**Moray House School of Education and Sport - Finance**

**Open ended/Full time (35 hours per week)
**The Opportunity**:
We have an exciting opportunity to join the finance business partnering team within College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, based at Moray House School of Education of Sport.

We are looking for 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.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:
Be a part-qualified or newly qualified accountant, preferably with a degree or HND in a relevant discipline with previous relevant experience including some team leadership or management.

Experience of managing projects and budgets and providing insightful analysis and advice to stakeholders

Proven written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain finance concepts and the implications of financial decision to stakeholders

Good inter-personal and time management skills and able to influence others

Self-motivated and able to work independently and collaboratively to manage activities and projects

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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.

Interviews will be held on a rolling basis. If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your 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.

Moray House School of Education has been making a major contribution and impact to the field of education both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. In that time, our staff, students and alumni have influenced, improved and transformed learning and teaching and wider educational policy in the UK and beyond. Today, we continue to conduct research across all aspects of education and learning - from pre-school to higher education and lifelong learning. Our alumni include world-famous novelist J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, and Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athlete, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy MBE.

Moray House School of Education is the leading School of Education in Scotland - we are ranked first for both educational research and sport and exercise research, according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. The REF also places us in the top five in the UK for educational research and top 10 in the UK for sport and exercise research, confirming our reputation as a UK centre of excellence in these fields.

The School’s five research clusters: Equality, social justice and inclusion; Pedagogy, learning and curriculum; Language, culture and communication; Digital education; Sport, physical education and health science supplement the work of research centres and groups and are aimed at fostering emergent areas of research excellence. We provide an outstanding learning and research environment, where students learn to become future leaders able to meet the diverse opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Above all, we focus on quality, whether it is in teaching, research or ensuring our students have the be