Divisional Finance Accountant

University of Oxford

Divisional Finance Accountant

Reporting to, and dealing carefully with, the Divisional Finance Managers, this function will kind a part of a workforce of extremely expert Divisional Finance employees who’re liable for guaranteeing that Senior Administration in UAS and GLAM departments advantages from sound recommendation and problem of their areas of accountability. 

The College of Oxford is a stimulating work setting, which enjoys a world repute as a world-class centre of excellence. Our analysis performs a key function in tackling many international challenges, from lowering our carbon emissions to creating vaccines throughout a pandemic.

The Finance Division helps the educational, analysis and administrative group on the College offering sound monetary recommendation and well timed data with a spread of assist providers together with monetary operations, monetary reporting, monetary assist {and professional} providers.

What We Provide

As an employer, we genuinely care about our workers’ wellbeing and that is mirrored within the vary of advantages that we provide together with:

•             A wonderful contributory pension scheme

•             38 days annual go away

•             A complete vary of childcare providers

•             Household go away schemes

•             Cycle mortgage scheme

•             Discounted bus journey and Season Ticket journey loans

•             Membership to a wide range of social and sports activities golf equipment 

•             A welcoming and numerous group

Concerning the Function

The postholder is liable for all budgeting, forecasting, planning and ongoing evaluation of an outlined space of the Division’s portfolio of departments. They use monetary evaluation to enhance the affect of economic reporting on departments’ efficiency, delivering perception that hyperlinks monetary experiences to enterprise methods. They assemble monetary fashions to guage new organisational and enterprise proposals, figuring out related alternatives and dangers.

The postholder will work with Senior Administration inside UAS and GLAM departments to develop annual budgets and quarterly forecasts and monitor precise efficiency towards budgets and revenue targets, recommending corrective motion the place applicable, and figuring out implications for present and future years’ efficiency.

You may be required to offer proactive business and monetary recommendation to senior administration  in evaluating potential new initiatives; and in figuring out methods through which the monetary efficiency of present exercise could possibly be improved.

The postholder can even undertake discrete finance associated initiatives which can span the total vary of the Division’s monetary actions. These will provide wonderful networking and growth alternatives past the day-to-day scope of the function.

The postholder will play a lead function within the steady enchancment of the broader Finance Workforce’s processes in addition to propagating finest monetary administration follow throughout supported departments of the Division 

We welcome functions from all sections of the group.

You may be based mostly in Hythe Bridge Avenue however you could possibly agree a sample of normal distant working along with your line supervisor.

About You

Commensurate with the excessive diploma of technical experience it calls for, the put up would swimsuit a candidate who’s at a complicated stage of buying a monetary qualification, and who has demonstrable expertise of working in the same function in a big, advanced organisation. It’s envisaged that the postholder will in the end be given publicity to completely different areas of exercise inside UAS and GLAM departments, in assist of their skilled growth

The postholder requires sturdy monetary acumen, together with a capability to establish value financial savings and/or effectivity enhancements, serving to to make sure the Division meets the stretching monetary targets set for its departments over the approaching years. Glorious interpersonal expertise are wanted to ascertain credibility and affect change amongst these you assist, and guarantee key messages are delivered clearly and succinctly. A capability to develop sturdy relationships with exterior stakeholders the place applicable are required.

The postholder could have the power to work independently, exhibiting initiative and innovation. We’re in search of a person with a confirmed can-do angle, a willingness to adapt, and a dedication to supporting different areas of exercise as the necessity arises.

Software Course of

You may be required to add a supporting assertion, CV and the main points of two referees as a part of your on-line utility.

The deadline for functions is 12 midday on Friday 23 Feburary 2023.

We will likely be conducting interviews all through this course of and maintain the best to shut functions early ought to we discover a appropriate candidate

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