Bath Spa University is seeking an experienced finance leader to join us as Financial Controller. This is a pivotal senior role, responsible for supporting the university’s strategic need to be financially sustainable by creating and managing the financial control environment to ensure that all financial information and reporting produced is accurate, timely and relevant in order to ensure effective data led decision making.

About the Role

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Financial Controller will oversee the Finance Services, Management Accounts & Finance Business Partnering and Financial Accounting teams in order to ensure the reporting and control environment for these responsibilities is effective and efficient.

About You

You will be a technically strong qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA) with significant experience in financial control, including cash forecasting, within the higher education sector or a similarly complex environment. You will bring strong leadership experience, a track record of successfully leading and managing teams with a proven track record of developing and enhancing management accounts and associated processes.

Essential:

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA)

Significant experience in financial control, including cash forecasting

A proven track record of developing and enhancing management accounts and associated processes.

Strong leadership experience with a record of successfully leading and managing teams

Desirable:

Worked within the higher education sector

Previous experience in a similarly complex environment.

For more information about the criteria for the role, please see the attached job description.

Additional Information

Salary Grade - Spot salary - up to £72,000

Staff Benefits

We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including

Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme/Teacher's Pension Scheme). This is a defined benefit pension scheme which pays members a secure income for life, post-retirement

Family friendly policies including hybrid working, flexible work environment, on-site nursery, and a sector-leading enhanced maternity scheme

Employee Assistance Programme which offers access to on-demand GP appointments, wellbeing support and advice, and access to counselling

Transport schemes including Electric Vehicle Scheme and Cycle to Work

Wide range of discounts and financial benefits, accessed through and easy-to-use app

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About Bath Spa University

At Bath Spa University, we believe in the power of education to break down barriers to opportunity and to transform lives. We are the Professionally Creative for the future. Professional Creativity transcends subject disciplines, and is just as important for our sciences, education, business and law subjects as it is for our sector leading creative industries provision. We connect learners, staff and external partners with applied research and innovation. We power inclusive growth through skills development and practice based, innovation – intensive learning for all.

Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.

An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.

We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:

Respect

Inclusivity

Collaboration

Sustainability

We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community. We foster inclusivity, celebrating and respecting differences. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and genders. We consider our recruitment practices to be comprehensive and unbiased; ensuring fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity for all.