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The Department of Physics seeks to appoint a permanent full-time Finance Administrator to join our professional services team.

This is a new post in the team, sitting alongside the Finance Manager and existing Finance Administrator in the Finance team to provide high level financial support for the department and all aspects of research and teaching. You will be joining an established team of motivated finance and projects staff working within the Physics department.

Duties will be shared between the two Finance Administrators and could include overseeing the department’s research grant portfolio, budget forecasting and reporting, advising on terms and conditions, contributing to departmental financial planning, managing departmental and group budgets, and overseeing all purchasing and payments. You will have line management responsibility for team members, and ideally bring experience of supervising and developing staff from a previous role.

Training will be provided as appropriate. During the probationary/training period you will be expected to work on campus. There is scope for hybrid working once probation and training are completed satisfactorily.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

You will have relevant experience in a similar finance role, with a good understanding of research funder requirements and university financial regulations. You will be an excellent communicator, used to working with confidential and sensitive information and able to build positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels. You have demonstrable experience of using your initiative to problem solve and interrogate data.

This role would suit someone who is excited by the prospect of working on a varied portfolio of projects and activities, working closely and collaboratively with staff and students in Physics and with staff in central university departments.

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The Physics Department and the University of Warwick are proud of their diverse community of staff, students, and visitors, and are committed to maintaining an excellent record in teaching and research by ensuring that there is equality of opportunity for all, fostered in an environment of mutual respect and dignity.

The Physics Department are proud of their diverse community of staff, students, and visitors, and are committed to maintaining an excellent record in teaching and research by ensuring that there is equality of opportunity for all, fostered in an environment of mutual respect and dignity.

The Physics Department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. The Physics Department is also a Juno Champion, which is an award from the Institute of Physics to recognise our efforts to address the under-representation of women in university physics and to encourage better practice for both women and men.

Further information can be found at this website.

Childcare

Childcare can be provided for you at the University of Warwick Nursery (www.warwick.ac.uk/services/childrensservices/nursery) in order for you to attend the interview. Childcare is subject to availability of places at the Nursery.

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

• QS World University Rankings 2024

** Research Excellence Framework 2021

Informal enquiries can be directed to Samantha Roberts, Finance Manager, [email protected].

To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter by the closing date of 9 October 2023. Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history. Your cover letter should detail how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for this post.

The interviews will be held late October/ early November.

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation.

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.

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