Finance Business Partner

University of Bath; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Bath seeks a qualified Finance Business Partner for its Management Accounting team. This full-time role focuses on ensuring financial accuracy in monitoring, budgeting, and reporting and necessitates building strong relationships while supporting strategic projects to enhance resource allocation and decision-making.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Staff discount at Team Bath gym

Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees

Generous employer contributory pension schemes

Generous annual leave allowance

Personal and professional development opportunities

Free entry to Holburne Museum

Relocation allowance

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience in project accounting and financial modelling.
• Confident in building relationships with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure robust financial framework for monitoring and reporting.
• Support strategic projects by developing financial models.
• Mitigate financial risks and promote best practices.

Skills

Financial modelling

Project accounting

Stakeholder engagement

Adaptability

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent

Job description

We’re looking for a qualified Finance Business Partner to join our Management Accounting team.

About the role

This is a pivotal role that blends technical expertise with strategic insight. You’ll work closely with the Digital, Data & Technology Group, the Department of Planning, Performance & Strategic Change and the Department of Sport and Recreation to ensure a robust financial framework is in place for in-year financial monitoring, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. By providing accurate and timely financial data, you will enable departments to make well-informed decisions that align with the University's strategic objectives.

You’ll also play a key role in supporting strategic projects—developing financial models, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and assessing the financial viability of new initiatives. By delivering clear and actionable financial insights, you will help project teams understand their finances, optimise resource allocation, and enhance project outcomes.

Sitting within the MIS team in Finance and Procurement, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring compliance with financial regulations and internal policies, mitigating financial risks, and promoting best practices in financial management.

This position is offered on a full-time, open-ended basis. You’ll benefit from a hybrid working pattern, working on-site two days per week (once at the Virgil Building, and another day on campus).

About you

Our ideal candidate will be:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Experienced in project accounting and financial modelling
• Confident and experienced in building relationships with senior stakeholders
• Technically proficient and able to understand and explain implications of decisions.
• Able to adapt to a changing environment

Experience within higher education, NHS, or the public sector is desirable due to the complexity of our organisation, but this is not essential. Whilst we value direct experience, we’re equally interested in candidates with strong potential and the right mindset.

What we can offer you:

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving aSilver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing ourSafer Recruitmentcommitment.

We are very proud to be anautism friendly universityand are an accreditedDisability Confident Leader; committed tobuilding disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• Afamily-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursementandInterest-Free Loanto help with the cost of some immigration expenses

£46,735 to £55,755. Grade 8, per annum