Financial Cashflow Forecasting and Reporting Lead

**Ref Number**

C13-00224

**Professional Expertise**

Finance

**Department**

Finance (C13)

**Location**

London

**Working Pattern**

Full time

**Salary**

£66,711-£72,370

**Contract Type**

Permanent

**Working Type**

Hybrid

**Available for Secondment**

No

**Closing Date**

16-Feb-2025

**About us**:
UCL Finance is divided into 5 Directorates: Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Finance Business Partnering, Management Accounting, Treasury management and sustainable investments, and Financial Services. Together they are responsible for the management of UCL's financial performance and strategy and for the provision of services and advice.

The role is based in the FP&A team. The Directorate leads on financial planning, internal management reporting and compliance reporting to our regulators, analysis and modelling. FP&A plays a critical role in helping to set the strategic direction for our University.

**About the role**:
This is a newly created role created to strengthen UCL’s cashflow forecasting and reporting. The role provides a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference within a world leading organisation.

UCL is a large and complex organisation with a turnover of c.£2bn. We have ambitious and exciting plans for our future forecasts. In this job you’ll work closely with the Head of Financial Planning and Director of FP&A, and with colleagues across Finance, to ensure that UCL’s cashflow forecasting and reporting supports strategic decision making.

You'll optimise the understanding, review and building of cashflow modelling across the organisation, ensuring alignment to the regular re-forecasting exercises and budget. You'll also provide support for relevant linked processes such as the Treasury function output, Working Capital assumptions and UCL’s Investment Strategy.

Furthermore, you'll lead on the monitoring of the UCL cashflow position against the Financial Strategy at the key budget, forecast and year-end events as well as relevant intervals such as month end.

**A full list of duties is on the attached job description.**

**About you**:
For this job you'll need:
To be a fully qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience or demonstrable experience in a planning or financial accounting role

Experience of delivering financial projects

The ability to conduct detailed analysis while being able to see ‘the bigger picture’

Strong written and oral communication skills

Experience of managing, reporting against and monitoring organisational financial performance across the I&E/Balance Sheet and Cashflow and ability to communicate (orally and in writing) this performance to a wide range of UCL audiences

Successful experience of short and longer term business and financial planning in a complex environment

Experience of overseeing budget and forecast processes within a large and complex organisation

**What we offer**:
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance

**Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**:
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.