Senior Finance Officer

Job title:

Senior Finance Officer

Company

University College London

Job description

About usUCL EngineeringEngineering Sciences comprises ten academic departments that undertake research and teaching across a wide range of disciplines. Our scientists and engineers take discoveries from fundamentals to practice, producing innovative technological solutions to challenging problems. It is a dynamic and growing Faculty, with a strong vision and desire to use our talents to ‘Change the world’. For more information see www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering.Many essential technologies originated from studies and work at UCL, including the rapid production of vaccines, fibre-optic communications (for which a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded) and the internet infrastructure. The complexity of today’s societies means that engineers deal with a huge range of challenges, ideas, and techniques.The Faculty is uniquely international. Our students and staff are drawn from Europe, the Americas, Africa, India, China, the Middle and Far East, and Australasia – as are our academic and business partners.Our teaching programmes are focused on subjects that have the biggest impact on the world around us, and their content is led by the best international research.Our research is formally organised within and across academic departments. The Faculty’s work also transcends the boundaries between academic subjects and departments, with members of the Faculty working particularly closely with several institutes and centres, both physical and virtual, within the Faculty and UCL more generally.UCL Mechanical Engineering has been pioneering the development of engineering education, having taught the core discipline for over 165 years. UCL was home to the UK’s first ever Professor of the Mechanical Principles of Engineering, Eaton Hodgkinson, in 1847. It was also where Sir Alexander Blackie William Kennedy introduced organized laboratory practicals in university education training; a world-leading educational innovation at the time.At UCL Mechanical Engineering, we develop and apply core competencies to produce world-class research into a wider range of engineering challenges than most would imagine. Amongst many other avenues we are:

• Leading research into low carbon shipping
• Designing the greenest engines and novel sustainable fuels
• Biomechanical Research
• Development and testing of new and unique materials

About the roleThe Department of Mechanical Engineering is pleased to be recruiting for a Senior Finance Officer to deliver a high quality and timely service to staff and other internal and external stakeholders.Based at our Bloomsbury campus, the successful applicant will be entrusted with administering the financial activities of the department. Their core responsibilities are to ensure effective procedures are documented and adopted for dealing with all aspects of financial administration ,with an emphasis on monitoring expenditure, preparing reports as required, and completing submissions for annual budgets and in-year forecasts. The postholder will also play a key role in facilitating training and knowledge exchange amongst relevant colleagues to ensure consistency.About youWe are keen to accept applications from candidates with a credible track record of the following features:

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent relevant qualification in finance or accountancy
• Knowledge of financial processes and regulations associated with general financial administration
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, including the ability to understand and use numerical formulas
• Knowledge of financial processes and regulations associated with a university/ research environment
• Excellent IT skills including advanced knowledge of excel including the ability to understand and use numerical formulae and a good all-round knowledge of Microsoft Office software
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, along with a commitment to customer focus, which enable the post holder to liaise and interact with a variety of people at all levels, both internal and external to the university
• High level of numeracy, with the ability to understand and interpret a variety of figures and statistics, and deliver accurately against operational deadlines
• Proven consistent ability to set and meet tight individual and organisational deadlines and to manage own workload through effective prioritising, time management and organisational skills
• Ability to be discreet and maintain confidentiality while working under pressure and ensuring attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent analytical skills to be able to research, analyse and interpret information and in turn prepare, interpret and present accurate financial reports for a variety of uses and audiences
• Demonstrable ability to develop, maintain and review administrative and finance systems
• Ability to think strategically and effectively manage several tasks at one time
• Ability to take initiative and make decisions
• Proven experience of preparing financial budgets and forecasts
• Experience of servicing and contributing to meetings, including effective collaborative decision making
• Proven experience of providing effective financial guidance to stakeholders

How to Apply:It is essential that your applications is paired with a Statement in support of your application, without which your application will be disregarded. Please follow the guidance as indicated below:1) Copy and paste the essential criteria detailed in the attached Job Description & Person Specification with specific regard to the essential criteria that are assessed at the Application stage.2) Describe how you meet each of the criteria and provide concrete examples against each criteria.What we offerAs 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

Visit to find out more.Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs 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.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.Available documents

Expected salary

Location

North West London

Job date

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:45:24 GMT

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