Job Description

In this exciting and varied role you will work with the Financial Reporting team and support the finance business partner with the delivery of effective financial management, control, reporting and advisory support for specific operational directorates.

• Preparation and posting of month end journals including accruals and prepayments
• Working with the finance business partners to produce monthly management reporting for your directorate/s with insightful commentary and variance analysis of the results
• Be pro-actively involved in the finance transformation programme including reporting development, with the aim of driving continuous improvement across the Group
• Working collaboratively with the wider finance business partner team to promote and share business partnering ideas, learnings, experiences and best practice ideas, learnings, experiences and best practice
• Providing advice and support to other areas of the wider finance function and work with them to ensure our reporting is aligned and streamlined and adds value in decision making
• Supporting the finance business partner with financial input into business cases to aid decision making in the business
• Work collaboratively to improve financial capability and understanding across the organisation

You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors. We offer hybrid working so you have the flexibility to work from home or if you prefer, from any of our offices. At times you may be required to attend meetings, however there are situations where you may need to work from the office more often, but will be dependent on your role requirement.
We’re always learning and developing. All our people have access to a huge variety of learning resources to help them achieve this. We offer:

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays and three additional days Christmas closure) and flexible agile working
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including access to wellbeing support
• The option to join a generous pension scheme
• A wide range of discounts, a cycle scheme, financial wellbeing savings and season ticket loans, as well as a range of other benefits
• We also offer generous parental leave arrangements, career breaks and volunteer leave

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in month-end management accounts including accruals & prepayments, variance analysis and commentary preparation
• A self-starter, able to work autonomously and capable of managing internal and external deadlines
• Able to explain financial reports to non-finance specialists
• Part qualified accountant or equivalent (ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, ICAS, ICAI)