Finance Manager (CC12452)

Job title Finance Manager

Department Sports Development & Recreation

Salary Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163

Grade Grade 7

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Monday 10 February 2025

Closing date Monday 24 February 2025

Interview date Tuesday 04 March 2025

Reference CC12452

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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The Department of Sports Development and Recreation at the University of Bath seeks to utilise the power of sport to foster the best environment to enable individuals to thrive.

We are seeking a Finance Manager with the necessary qualifications and relevant experience to lead the department finance team and support all budget holders with appropriate advice and guidance.

The Department manages and organises a range of activities under the University's sports brand - Team Bath - and aspires to create a world leading multi-sport environment delivering to elite athletes, staff and students of the University and the local and regional community. Based in the inspiring Sports Training Village, the Department offers a wide range of high quality sports activities, programmes, events, services and facilities catering for all ages and abilities.

In addition, we are recognised by UK Sport as one of only eight Elite Training Centres, providing the training base for around 250 international level athletes. This is an opportunity to become part of a professional and progressive organisation at the leading edge of sport, health and fitness.

As well as overseeing the day-to-day financial processes of the department to ensure compliance with all regulations, you will be responsible for the creation of:

You will lead on establishing and reviewing processes and procedures that support the department's commercial activities and, as part of the Senior Management Team, work with colleagues on the delivery of strategic plans and act as a point of contact for the central Finance Office for financial matters.

The ideal candidate is AAT level 4 qualified or has equivalent, relevant professional experience and a track record of financial administration including budget management, planning and forecasting. You will need to be able to:

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Greg Sharp, Deputy Director of Sport at [email protected], however, please submit your application via the University website.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.