Head of Financial Control and Compliance

Are you an experienced senior finance professional and a strong communicator who demonstrates effective leadership skills and champions a compliance culture? This job could be just for you.

This is a key leadership role that will make an impactful difference to our finance controls and compliance culture and environment.

You will lead on deeply embedding financial compliance throughout the University and continually enhancing our financial control environment, and will implement and drive forward a proactive financial compliance strategy. You need to have an excellent practical understanding of what a strong control environment should look like, how to embed this, and be able to drive forward best practice.

You will work closely with colleagues across the Finance department, and with senior colleagues outside of the department. Strong influencing skills are therefore essential. This role will be a key relationship point for internal audit and lead on ensuring audit recommendations are implemented and embedded on an ongoing basis. An 'in-house internal auditor' (Head of Financial Assurance) compliments work undertaken by internal and external audit, and reports into this role.

We are one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

We offer hybrid working arrangements for finance staff with a mixture of working on campus and remotely.

What we offer

• A minimum of 41 days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more.
• Flexible working opportunities, including hybrid working for some roles.
• Generous pension scheme.
• A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel.
• A variety of staff networks, providing opportunities for social interaction, peer support and personal development (for example, Race Equality, LGBT+, Women’s and Parent’s networks).
• Recognition Awards to reward staff who go above and beyond in their role.
• A commitment to your development access to learning and mentoring schemes; integrated with our Academic Career Pathways and Professional Services Shared Skills Framework.
• A range of generous family-friendly policies
  • o paid time off for parenting and caring emergencies
  • o support for those going through the menopause
  • o paid time off and support for fertility treatment
  • o and more

More details can be found on our benefits page: sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability and meet the essential criteria you will be invited to interview.

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