Faculty Finance Manager (Faculty of Social Science and Faculty of Science)

University of Sheffield; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

What you’ll be doing

• Providing financial support and information to faculty colleagues
• Providing line management support and guidance to the finance business partners across the two faculty teams
• Help develop and embed standard policies, procedures and ways of working across the finance department.
• Helping ensure that financial plans remain sustainable and financial risks are identified, understood and managed.
• Undertaking proactive analysis of both internal and external faculty income and expenditure.
• Providing professional financial advice to faculty colleagues in order to examine, identify and assess potential or impending areas of financial risk and make recommendations to minimise risk.
• Communicating key issues relating to financial planning and operation, exchange ideas and best practice, develop relationships within the Faculty and contribute to the implementation of financial strategies and policies.
• Facilitating the effective operation of financial systems within the faculty, sharing best practice, and providing training opportunities for staff
• Work with colleagues within Finance and the Faculty to resolve financial issues and ensure transparency and consistency of information.

What We Offer

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits and join us to become part of something special.