Divisional Financial Controller

The successful Divisional Financial Controller will be:

• Leading and taking ownership of implementing the financial aspects of the Division's strategic and academic planning, ensuring that the financial aspects of all activities and academic decisions are accurately reflected at all stages of decision-making processes and their implications properly understood, advising the Head of Division, and senior divisional and departmental officers as required.
• Embedding a culture of financial sustainability across the Division.
• Working with and supporting the Division to ensure that areas of financial weakness are addressed and opportunities for income generation are exploited, within the context of the strategic priorities of the individual departments and the Division as a whole.
• Managing financial risk actively across the Division, ensuring that an appropriate level of risk management and risk appetite exists during times of rapid change and development.
• Taking ownership of the Division's budgeting and quarterly forecasting cycles, ensuring that departments provide high-quality and accurate information that complies with both the Division's and central University's requirements and enables full and effective reviews to take place.
• Ensuring that proper, efficient and robust accounting and financial management processes and controls are in place across the Division.
• Ensuring that the underlying factors for variances to budgets and plans are fully understood and that appropriate actions are taken to remedy this.
• Ensuring that the departmental accounting structures facilitate the quick and efficient production of accurate financial reports and other management information.
• Acting as an effective channel of communication between the departments, the Division and the central University, ensuring that each party understands the needs and perspectives of the other and fostering an environment in which the combined resources of the parties are most effectively coordinated.
• Representing the University in its regular financial interactions with the NHS, ensuring that there is a clear understanding of the financial flows between the University and the various part of the NHS with which it has dealings and ensuring also that the transactions occurring at the divisional level are efficiently and effectively managed.
• Providing effective leadership and management of the divisional finance team, ensuring the team's continuing professional development in support of maintaining the highest quality of service delivery and customer satisfaction.