Deputy Head of Financial Management

NDM Finance Team, located within the Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN.

We currently have an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced individual to join our growing team at the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) as Deputy Head of Financial Management.  

As Deputy Head of Financial Management, you will support some of NDM’s largest and most complex business units, providing expert financial guidance and strategic direction. You’ll be instrumental in delivering high-quality financial leadership across the department, ensuring effective budgeting, forecasting, and financial oversight.

You will provide a high-quality service across NDM by providing leadership, direction and responding proactively and with agility to the fast-changing financial and operational environment in which the Division work, engendering a culture of respect, trust and effective service delivery. You will have full operational responsibility for producing budgets, monthly accounts, and year end for the Strategic Team and Academic Programme as well as leading on the financial oversight of Department Projects, Trust Funds and Audits of the NDM Units both in the UK and Overseas.  

It is essential that you hold an accounting qualification such as FCA, FCMA, FCCA, FCPFA, together with experience in a large accounting environment with proven management accounting, budgeting and planning skills. Experience in communicating financial, management accounts, processes and functions to non-financial staff, including senior management and administrators is essential, with proven leadership and teamwork skills, especially in communicating with and developing other staff.

The Nuffield Department of Medicine is friendly, welcoming and keen to engage with the many challenges and opportunities that arise in our world-leading, internationally recognised department. This role offers the opportunity to thrive in a diverse role in a supported environment.

Applications for this vacancy should be made online (via the ‘Apply’ button above) and you will need to upload a supporting statement and CV. Your supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience. Please restrict your documentation to your CV and supporting statement only. Any other documents will be requested at a later date.  

This position is offered full time (part time hours considered, minimum 0.8FTE), on a permanent contract.

Only applications received before 12 midday on Tuesday 22 April 2025 will be considered. Interviews will be held on Friday 2 May 2025. Please quote 178752 on all correspondence.

Contact Person: Kaitlin Beazley

Pay Scale: STANDARD GRADE 9

Contact Email: recruitment@nd.ox.ac.uk

Salary (£): Standard Grade 9: £55,636 - £64,228 with a discretionary range to £70,029 p.a. (pro rata).

This is inclusive of a pensionable Oxford University Weighting of £1,500 per year (pro rata).

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