Senior Finance Officer

Department of Computer Science, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford.

Senior Finance Officer

Permanent, Full Time  

Grade 7: Salary £33,309 - £40,927 p.a.

An opportunity has arisen in the Department for a permanent full-time Senior Finance Officer, reporting directly to the Department’s Finance Manager.

The Senior Finance Officer will be responsible for managing the smooth running of the Department’s day to day general finance team, ensuring that the day to day general accounts administration is carried out in accordance with university financial procedures and audit requirements. You will quality assure all financial transactions associated with the Department’s activities, including the Professional Master’s Programme, and ensure that they are accurately recorded in the University's Oracle Financials system. You will manage a team of four Finance Assistants including taking responsibility for their performance management, career development and training.

You will also be responsible for monitoring departmental studentship funding and ensuring that commitments for these are accurately recorded against the department’s studentship budgets and internal and external funding sources.  The funding for studentships is complex with many funding sources within the department as well as donations, college scholarships, and central University funding.  You will also manage the small research facility Oxford Research Software Engineers (OxRSE) finances ensuring expenditure is correctly posted between projects and the general ledger as well as being responsible for any internal transfers between departments, and all external invoicing.

You will be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience with excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical financial information both verbally and in writing to a range of non-financial audiences. You should have the ability to balance and prioritize your own workload effectively and make sound and informed decisions whilst also knowing when to escalate an issue. You should also have significant experience of managing and developing staff.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 31^st January 2022. Interviews are expected to be held on 10^th or 11^th February 2022.

We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Living Wage and Mindful Employer, holding an Athena Swan Bronze Award, HR excellence in Research and Race Equality Charter Bronze Award.

Our staff and students come from all over the world and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diversity groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example shared parental leave.

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