Finance Business Partner - 13269

Location: Brunel University London, Uxbridge Campus

 Salary: Grade 8 from:  £45,390 to £58,263   inclusive of London Weighting with potential to progress to £65,236 per annum inclusive of London Weighting. (Pro-rata if Part-time)

Hours: Full-time

 Contract Type: Permanent

Brunel University London was established in 1966 and is a leading multidisciplinary research-intensive technology university delivering economic, social and cultural benefits. 

For more information please visit: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/our-history/home

We are looking to appoint a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Directorate, reporting to the CFO.

This role is pivotal in providing strategic financial insight and support to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and driving sustainable business performance in the University. We are looking for an exceptionally skilled and highly motivated individual who can provide professional leadership on all aspects of University-wide financial management information to inform fact-based decision making.

 Job Responsibilities

• Build and maintain effective business partnering relationships across all departments within the assigned area of remit, and act as trusted advisor to the leadership team
• Working in partnership with stakeholders to develop capital and revenue project budgets for areas of responsibility, engaging with colleagues from across the university to understand, collate and prioritise resource needs. Understanding the alignment and articulating projects to Brunel’s strategic objectives

• Provide high quality advice to your stakeholder and Executive senior management to enable the better financial management of resources
• Ensure that a culture of customer-focused service delivery is consistently maintained across all aspects of the Finance department’s provision
• Provide advice and information to and work collaboratively across the Finance function to provide a cohesive service, develop shared insights, priorities and ideas.
• Pro-actively manage and develop the management accountant supporting the portfolio (if applicable)
• Communicate effectively with direct report (if applicable) to ensure understanding of goals and expectations, to ensure accurate and timely delivery of tasks

The Successful Candidate

The ideal candidate will be confident, and proactive with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation. A driven individual who strives to deliver process improvements, has excellent communication skills with attention to detail; able to work flexibly and to deadline.

• Qualified accountant with sound academic background and logical career progression.
• Strong business partnering experience, proven track record in a similar sized organisation.
• Higher education or not for profit sector experience (desirable).
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to develop effective working relationships with a diverse stakeholder group.
• High level of energy; able to bring financials to life and translate financial information to meaningful information for non-finance stakeholders.
• Ability to energise and influence a wide spectrum of people, including senior financial and operational professionals.
• Advanced proficiency in financial systems – Excel (essential), Power BI (desirable), Adaptive Planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator.
• An enquiring mind with the confidence to ask questions and challenge the status quo.
• Hybrid working – required to be on campus at least 3 days per week, up to 2 days per week working from home.

We offer a generous annual leave package plus discretionary University closure days, excellent training and development opportunities as well as a great occupational pension scheme and a range of health-related support. The University is committed to a hybrid working approach.

Closing date for applications:  Tuesday 4th November 2025.

Interviews will take place from 10th November 2025 - virtually/in person.

For further details about the post including the Job Description and Person Specification and to apply please visit https://careers.brunel.ac.uk

Brunel, University of London is a Disability Confident employer. Disabled applicants meeting the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

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All Applicants should be eligible to live and work in the UK for the duration of any offer of appointment.

Brunel University London is fully committed to creating and sustaining a fully inclusive workforce culture. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, we particularly welcome applicants who are currently under- represented in our workforce.