Financial Accountant (Subsidiaries) (Fixed term) at University of Nottingham

Corporate Finance

Location: Kings Meadow Campus

Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Closing Date: Friday 06 October 2023

Reference: FAB418623

The Corporate Finance team seeks a Financial Accountant. Your role will be split between business partnering and financial accounting. Whilst being the key advisor on financial matters for our subsidiary companies you will lead on their accounting and accounts preparation. You will work with a diverse range of colleagues across the university. There is the possibility for this fixed term role to become permanent.

What you will be doing

You will be a key part of our group reporting processes. When you join, you will help us finalise our financial statements and be a key point of contact for external auditors. Meanwhile, you will be meeting the stakeholders in our subsidiary companies to understand how we work.

You will then cycle through our monthly consolidated accounting and reconciliations, whilst leading on management reporting. You will be the financial advisor and business partner to board meetings.

Along the way you will be a key contributor to a range of process improvement and team development projects, most notably our transition to a new finance system.

Who you are

You’re curious and you enjoy finding out about and improving processes.

With an eye for accuracy, you enjoy it when the month-end reconciliations balance.

At the same time, when deadlines clash, you can step back to focus on critical processes.

Confident juggling your workload, you manage stakeholders to ensure work is done on time.

Previously you have prepared management reports, financial plans, and budgets.

You can confidently prepare external financial reports (like audit submissions) and you know how to reconcile them back to source data.

Either you have significant relevant experience, or you are a qualified accountant.

Who we are

We are the Corporate Finance team, a small team that sits within a much larger Financial Control and Financial Management team. We are a busy, diverse and vibrant team, looking after month-end and year-end processes, financial reporting, audit and regulatory returns, cash and treasury management and the setup of the university’s finance systems.

What’s in it for you

The university offers 30 days holiday allowance (plus additional university closure days), a competitive pension scheme, and onsite childcare on our award-winning campus, amongst other benefits. We offer hybrid home and office working.

You will be encouraged to take the short courses the university offers and attend external training which is relevant to your role.

This role is available on a fixed term basis for 12 months. Hours of work are full-time (36.25 hours) ; however applications are also welcome from candidates wishing to work part-time (minimum 29 hours per week). Please specify in your application if you wish to work part time and the number of preferred hours. Job share arrangements may be considered.

Requests for secondment from internal candidates may be considered on the basis that prior agreement has been sought from both your current line manager and the manager of your substantive post, if you are already undertaking a secondment role.

All candidates must submit a CV and Covering Letter tailored to the role profile below.

For informal enquiries please contact David Watson [email protected]. Please note applications will not be accepted via email.