Head of Financial Strategy (Part time jobshare)

About us

UCL is a world leading, global top 10 university. Made up of 11 faculties and additional central professional services teams, we employ 17,000 people to deliver ground-breaking research and exceptional teaching to over 50,000 students.

We've got a really exciting opportunity for a Head of Financial Strategy to join us on a job share basis. In this job, you'd work three full days a week from Weds to Friday, playing an extremely important role within our FP&A directorate. The Directorate leads on financial planning, internal management reporting and compliance reporting to our regulators, analysis and modelling. UCL has invested significantly in growing the FP&A function over the last two years, reflecting the Directorate's critical role in setting the strategic direction for our University.

About the role

As our joint Head of Financial Strategy, you'll have the chance to set the financial direction of UCL into the next decade by developing UCL's next financial strategy. This is a high-profile job which will involve significant engagement with University Management Committee members including the Provost, CFO, Vice President - Strategy and Vice President - Operations.

In developing the strategy, you'll lead finance engagement with UCL's Philanthropy team to build institutional understanding of how philanthropic income contributes to financial and strategic objectives.

You'll also lead on maintaining the current financial strategy, including identifying risks to delivery and identifying options to address any divergence from the current plan. This could include leading work to identify opportunities to reduce spend, or to generate additional income.

This is a senior role and as such will pay a full time equivalent salary of up to c.£90,000, plus excellent benefits.

A full list 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 post qualification experience and demonstrable experience in a planning or finance role. Successful experience leading the development of financial strategy in a complex environment, and a track record of financial leadership and managing a team, is also essential.

If you've got previous experience of working in an HE institution and/or current knowledge of the funding environment for research and teaching that's great, but it is not essential for the role. What really matters is that you're someone with a passion for strategic financial leadership who is keen to help UCL deliver on its vision.

Please review the job description, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application. Please also ensure your cover letter addresses the following questions:

1. What would a successful jobshare partnership look like, for you?
2. Briefly describe a time when you set the strategic direction for an organisation. How did you decide the best way forward?

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

* 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

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

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.