Senior Financial Analyst

University of Glasgow

Job Goal 

The supply of strategic initiatives throughout the finance directorate, working intently with stakeholders from throughout the College.
To play a key function within the growth and provision of central FP&A actions.
To play a number one function in offering a complete, efficient and environment friendly administration accounting service throughout the College.
To offer prime quality technical help throughout the College by way of insightful evaluation and concern decision.
To help and develop enhanced liaison between the central Finance Workplace and Faculties, guaranteeing correct, well timed, related and dependable data permitting supply of a customer support focus.
To repeatedly enhance processes and procedures to help environment friendly and efficient operations inside a powerful inner management setting.

Essential Duties and Duties 

1. Undertaking Work

Lead mission work throughout the Finance group as requested by the Director of Finance, Deputy Director of Finance and Head of Administration Accounts. This consists of main initiatives involving inner groups and exterior advisors to ship strategic College huge initiatives associated to course of enchancment and implementation of the College technique. Present specialist monetary help and recommendation to mission boards as required, getting ready detailed enterprise instances and different monetary planning and evaluation for senior administration, difficult and testing the information offered and guaranteeing the accuracy and timeliness of experiences. Actively contribute to all related mission conferences and dealing teams.

2. Monetary Planning & Evaluation

Lead strategic enterprise companion working throughout the organisation, offering analytics that ship actionable perception to assist enhance organisational selections. Producing pattern evaluation and predicative analytics, monitoring KPIs and figuring out the reason for sudden variations. Constructing and sustaining monetary fashions/dashboards to help quantity/combine evaluation to help strategic discussions on the dimensions and form of the College, value to show evaluation and different value and earnings associated evaluation. Develop and keep sturdy monetary information and leverage this to offer sound enterprise and monetary administration data to senior management together with figuring out strategic motion plans to make sure our return on funding. Develop and keep monetary fashions to help in goal setting processes and help budgeting, forecasting and state of affairs planning actions.

3. Exterior Administration Reporting Necessities.

Help on the preparation of exterior reporting data comparable to HESA, TRAC and SFC. It will require working intently with the Deputy Head of Administration Accounting and the core Administration Accounts group. It will embody collating, reviewing and deciphering information for submission to make sure correct and offered in accordance with issued pointers and timelines. Consideration may even must be given to figuring out year-on-year actions, areas of course of enchancment and system automation alternatives.

4. Monetary Administration Reporting Service

The function holder will present direct help to the Director/ Deputy Director of Finance for advert hoc requests and professional evaluation to help resolution making and growth of technique. It will embody sourcing, analysing and evaluating monetary data from throughout the College, utilizing perception and experience to attract conclusions and make suggestions. Current findings and proposals to tell and help strategic resolution making at Senior Administration Group, Finance Committee, Funding Committee, Court docket and to exterior stakeholders. The function holder may even consolidate, overview and problem the month-to-month outcomes and forecasts and put together the month-to-month reporting pack for overview with the Finance Workplace Directorate, forward of publishing to Senior Administration Group.

5. Course of Effectivity and Effectiveness

The function holder shall be anticipated to play a key function in optimising the service that the Administration Accounting group present to the Faculty Finance groups and take away duplication and wasted effort. They’ll have a transparent understanding of the wants of the buyer base and can work to offer an efficient service degree supply. In doing so they are going to be anticipated to work intently with Faculty Finance employees and Monetary Accounting employees to make sure that administration reporting and the underlying information integrity and processing is delivered in a managed, efficient and environment friendly method utilising a typical company course of. The function holder may even be anticipated to repeatedly overview and establish alternatives for enhancing the knowledge provision while bettering the effectivity and automation of the report preparation.

6. Different Duties

Attend conferences as required and deputise for the Deputy Head of Administration Accounts.

Present data as required beneath Freedom of Info Requests.

Present prime quality and specialist recommendation & steering on monetary data and college coverage.

Promote monetary consciousness and a tradition of economic accountability throughout the division to make sure monetary sustainability is central to all enterprise actions.

Information, {Qualifications}, Abilities and Expertise 

Information/{Qualifications}  

Important: 

A1 Information/expertise of economic & administration accounting procedures.

A2 Information/expertise of Monetary Planning and Evaluation actions.

A3 Chartered Accountant or Equal, or certified by expertise, with up-to-date data of coverage & procedures.

A4 Complete data of enterprise processes.

Abilities 

Important: 

C1 Capacity to use mental rigour and analytical perception to help qualitative decision- making.

C2 Extremely efficient oral and written communication and interpersonal abilities with the skill to problem assumptions and practices with diplomacy.

C3 A capability to demystify complicated monetary ideas for non-financial colleagues.

C4 Resilient and in a position to successfully cope with ambiguity and in a position to keep momentum within the face of obstacles/setbacks.

C5 Capacity to prioritise workload to ship to tight deadlines and handle competing calls for from numerous stakeholders.

C6 Superior abilities in the usage of Microsoft packages comparable to Excel, Phrase, Entry, PowerPoint; and accounting software program packages.

Expertise 

Important: 

E1 In depth publish qualification expertise in monetary and administration accounting inside a big, complicated organisation.

E2 Expertise of working with and influencing at numerous ranges throughout the organisation together with senior administration.

E3 Profitable observe file of working with non-financial managers to drive enhancements in decision-making and monetary efficiency.

E4 Important sensible expertise of utilizing computerised finance methods.

E5 Confirmed observe file in a big complicated setting.

Fascinating: 

F1 Expertise of PowerBI / TM1 Planning Analytics.

Phrases and Circumstances 

Wage shall be Grade 8, £48,350 – £56,021 each year.

This publish is full time (35 hours p/w) and open ended.

Relocation help shall be offered the place applicable.

As a part of Staff UofG you’ll be a member of a world altering, inclusive group, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.

As a valued member of our group, you possibly can count on:

1 A heat welcoming and fascinating organisational tradition, the place your abilities are developed and nurtured, and success is well known and shared.

2 A superb employment package deal with beneficiant phrases and circumstances together with 41 days of go away for full time employees, pension – pensions handbook https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/, advantages and low cost packages.

3 A versatile strategy to working.

4 A dedication to help your well being and wellbeing, together with a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new employees becoming a member of the College  https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/employees/healthwellbeing/.

We imagine that we will solely attain our full potential by way of the skills of all. Equality, variety and inclusion are on the coronary heart of our values. Purposes are notably welcome from throughout our communities and specifically individuals from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) group, and different protected traits who’re under-represented throughout the College. Learn extra on how the College promotes and embeds all facets of equality and variety inside our group https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.

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