Finance Manager (110164-0225)

For informal enquiries, please contact Chris Swift (Group Accountant) at C.Swift@warwick.ac.uk 

This opportunity sits within the Group Accounting Team, which covers both Management Accounting and Financial Reporting for the University. The Group Accounting Team is responsible for statutory reporting for the University from the consolidated Financial Statements to the OfS (Office for Students) and other funding bodies.

As the data hub of the Finance office, the Group Accounting Team has the unique position of reporting across all areas of the University from Academic departments to Administration and Commercial activities.

We are looking for a qualified accountant with a good honours degree, a pro-active individual with excellent excel skills and good technical knowledge, well organised with the ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.

The role will be working closely with the Group Accountant, covering the preparation and review of the University’s consolidated accounting information, including:

• quarterly management accounts and year end statutory accounts.
• financial plans.
• management of the production and development of reporting spreadsheets used by all departments and activities of the University for the production of the quarterly management accounts and financial plans.
• overseeing and managing the timely completion and consolidation of the quarterly management accounts and financial plans, including production and development of summary reporting and analysis.
• development and maintenance of processes for central transactions and adjustments, including grant income, student fee income and central service charges.
• development and maintenance of innovative financial solutions and models to aid planning, control, decision-making and dissemination of best practice.
• preparation of committee papers and supporting analysis.
• preparation of Statutory Government financial returns (e.g. OfS and HESA) and review of related returns from other departments.

In addition you will support the Finance Office and Group Accountant in other areas by providing accurate and timely management information to senior University management across academic departments, commercial activities and other ad hoc tasks, in order to aid planning, control and decision-making, especially in the deployment of University resources.

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