Junior Finance Business Partner

Junior Finance Business Partner

Vacancy ID
11498

College/Service
Professional Services and Operations

Department/Team
Finance

Location
UAL – Lime Grove, London UK

Hybrid working
Flexible hybrid – 50% on-site, 50% WFH

Grade
Grade 4

Salary
£39,394 – 48,144 per annum

Contract
Fixed Term – 6 months until Jul 2025

Term
Full time – 35 hours per week

Advertised
Agency managed

Apply by
13 February 2025 23:55

Interviews
19/09/2024

Job description

The opportunity
University of the Arts London (UAL) is seeking a talented and motivated Junior Finance Business Partner to join our friendly and supportive Pre-degree School and College Finance Business Partnering team on a full-time basis.

You will provide a comprehensive and customer-orientated business partnering service to budget managers from across the University, providing relevant financial information that will facilitate the smooth running of the costing and budget monitoring process.

Drawing on your in-depth, professional knowledge, you will work closely with budget holders to develop budgets, support month-end processes, ensuring these processes are completed in line with agreed approaches and to tight deadlines.

You will seek to establish close working relationships with Pre-Degree School and relevant stakeholders, to develop a full understanding of activities, deliverables, and operational challenges.

You will also ensure that all transactions are recorded correctly within the finance system, performing relevant checks to confirm that tax, legal, financial, budgeting and HR and Payroll requirements have been fully considered and met correctly.

About you
You will be educated to degree level in a relevant subject area and will be actively studying for a professional accounting qualification. You will demonstrate a good knowledge of finance and management information needs, knowledge of finance information systems and an understanding of financial management controls and procedures.

You will have previous experience of financial planning, budget setting, management accounts and variance analysis, as well as experience of producing and explaining financial information and management accounts to tight deadlines.

Application process
This vacancy is being managed by an external agency.
If you’re interested in applying to this position or would like a confidential conversation about it, please reach out and send a copy of your CV to Jake Morrow at Ivy Rock Partners.
You can contact Jake Morrow on or 07340284189 to apply.

What we offer
To recognise the hard work of our staff and their contributions, we provide a wide range of benefits – please check our careers site/Canvas for further information as conditions and exclusions apply:

• At least 31 days of annual leave in addition to bank holidays.
• Equal parental leave offering up to 6 months full pay for maternity and paternity.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave for a UK registered charity.
• Generous defined benefit pension schemes (LGPS/TPS).
• Discounts including gyms, nursery and private healthcare insurance.
• Learning and development opportunities including free Short Courses.
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, free counselling and more!

We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.#J-18808-Ljbffr