Senior Finance Business Partner - Estates Capital Projects

UCL; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK university in Greater London is seeking a financial business partner to provide comprehensive financial support on major programs and projects. The role requires a fully qualified accountant with substantial experience in Business Partnering. The ideal candidate will support a large-scale capital program, produce insightful financial analyses, and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders. This position offers generous leave and benefits including a pension scheme and wellness programs.

Benefits

41 Days holiday

Defined benefit pension scheme

On-site gym

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a Business Partnering role.
• Experience supporting a large-scale capital programme within a complex organisation.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support for major programs and projects across the University.
• Produce financial modelling for complex business cases.
• Deliver capital programme financial analysis.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Business Partnering experience

Financial analysis skills

Excellent communication

Education

Fully qualified accountant

Job description

About us

UCL's estate is the largest and most complex of any UK University. It's vital that we continue to expand and develop it so we can continue with our world-class teaching, our groundbreaking research, and our unwavering commitment to sustainability. That's why we have an £800m capital investment program to run over the next five years, with future strategies under development.

About the role

Within our Finance Business Partnering team, there's a dedicated team of business partners who support UCL's capital program and the major projects that make this up. This complex area of the organisation requires dedicated specialist support to ensure we provide best in class financial advice, insightful and timely reporting and accurate forecasts.

This is a great chance for you to be part of it! In this newly created, high profile and vital role you'll provide wide ranging financial support to stakeholders to a senior level on major programs and projects across the University, alongside UCL's wider capital portfolio. This includes the Estates strategy, the Student Accommodation strategy and wider capital program. Responsibilities will include supporting complex business cases as they develop, as well as producing robust and insightful financial modelling to support them.

A full range of duties can be found on the attached job description.

About you

To do this job you'll need to be a fully qualified accountant with significant experience of working in a Business Partnering role. Experience of supporting a large-scale capital programme within a complex organisation, including delivering capital programme financial analysis and producing reports to non-finance staff, is absolutely essential.

You’ll be an excellent communicator, adept at ensuring clarity of vision, messages, ideas and facts, and have the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.

Please read our job description carefully, paying particular attention to the above and to our essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these areas are covered in your application.

What we offer

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.