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College/Department: Corporate Service Group, Finance

Contract type: Open-ended - Full Time - 35 hours per week

Supporting management of the Deanery of Biomedical Sciences of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine by providing financial information, insight and analysis, as well as other business partnering services.

The Opportunity:

Supporting College senior management teams by providing and presenting financial management information, insight and analysis, thus enabling development and delivery of their plans, budgets and forecasts. Providing professional financial management support and business-partnering services to department budget holders and their staff. Advocating application of finance policy and procedures across the University.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Degree or equivalent with a relevant professional financial/accounting qualification (e.g. ICAS, ICAEW, CIMA or CIPFA), or substantial vocational experience (typically 10 years) demonstrating development through involvement in a series of progressively more demanding work/roles.
• A proven record of accomplishment in managing relevant financial and administrative tasks.
• Experience of leading and managing significant projects and budgets.
• Experience of providing analysis and strategic advice to senior managers.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, proven ability to explain complex finance concepts and the implication of financial decisions to non-specialists, excellent analytical skills and admirable IT skills (in particular, design and use of complex spreadsheets).
• Superb interpersonal, people management and time management skills, with proven ability to influence others to achieve aims and evidence of successfully developing own team.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab) .

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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