Finance Business Partner at University of Greenwich

What you’ll be doing: 

• Acting as the business partner for Faculty of Education, Marketing and External relations Directorate and other areas. This involves:
• Being part of the leadership team, ensuring commercial viability and financial discipline.
• Looking back: monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting.
• Looking ahead: setting next year’s budget and the 5 year plan, plus maintaining in year forecasts.
• Creating and supporting business case production.
• Support non-financial managers with the assessment of value for money and risks.
• Assist managers in determining and making trade-offs.
• Identify risks around supplier dependence, financial risks, and ways the university can be more sustainable.
• Take ownership and accountability for your respective areas.

What we are looking for : 

• A diligent and conscientious attitude with a desire to make things better.
• Ability to simultaneously zoom into the detail and keep track of the high level picture.
• Ability to concisely express complex information in a way that maximises impact in shortest time possible.
• Experience of influencing multiple stakeholders, whilst dealing with ambiguity.
• Qualified accountant with a track record of making a difference.  
• Positive and resilient mindset, whilst also maintaining a sense of curiosity, humility and humour.