Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location: London (Hybrid working)
Closing date: 1 September 2023
About the role
As Senior Commercial Finance Manager, you will work with our different business departments, providing financial information, tools, analysis, and insight to executives, challenging their thinking, helping them make more informed decisions and driving business strategy. You will provide 'real time' support and analysis, to be a trusted adviser and to add value that will assist in decision making and lead the Finance Business Partnering function for this area of the organisation. In this role, you will lead a team of three to provide a high performing business partnering service across the professional services departments and Projects. You will have responsibility for financial management of Projects (Capital & Revenue) sits alongside the professional services departments with particularly strong links to the Product, Academic and IT teams.
The role offers a great opportunity to directly improve the organisation’s financial position, through identifying and targeting areas for efficiency improvements, working across organisational functions to deliver real change. This is a newly created role that comes at an exciting time for the charity, and it offers the perfect opportunity for an ambitious and proactive individual who is looking to shape their finance career, develop their line management skills and put their own stamp on this role.
About you
- Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
- An excellent communicator with a history of building strong relationships in a business partnering role
- Experience of successfully leading a team of qualified accountants
- Experience of working with capital projects, strong knowledge of related accounting standards, and return on investment principles
- Confident in advising, challenging and negotiating with people, often senior, with different backgrounds and viewpoints
- Good financial and analytical skills to be able to digest large amounts of information with attention to detail when working under pressure
- Ability to apply strong commercial principles to their analysis and recommendations.
- Strong commitment to overall service excellence and commitment to continuous improvement
- Proven record of delivering to tight deadlines
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural and multi-site organisation
- Sound working knowledge of Sun Accounting System (preferable)
Our commitment
Trinity College London is an equal opportunities employer and our talented people come from all walks of life. Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
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How to apply
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