Director: Financial Planning - London, United Kingdom - Ivy Rock Partners Ltd

Ivy Rock Partners Ltd

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Ivy Rock Partners is proud to be working with King's College London in recruiting a new Director of Financial Planning & Performance to support all of the university's core operational teams, including Estates, IT, Student & Education, and Research Management.

If you are an exceptional and resilient leader, who wants to foster a high-performance culture in one of the world's leading universities - this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

King's College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research.

They are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising their vision of making the world a betterplace.

Through their commitment to world class education, impactful research and genuine service to society, they are creating positive change in their communities, both in London and on the world stage.

King's College's Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to their200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas:

Educating the next generation of changemakers;
Challenging ideas and driving change through research;
Giving back to society through meaningful service;
Working with local communities in London;
Fostering global citizens with an international perspective.

This is a critical role within the Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance team that will lead, develop and deliver high quality financial business partnering and decision support to the central services of the university and oversight of the financialreporting and control over capital investment plans.

King's seek to progress our planning and performance work in this area by drawing on analytical, economic and a deep contextual understanding of activity across core education, research and service missions.

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and part of the senior management of the newly established Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance section, this role will provide leadership of the central support service facing finance business partners.

Working closely with the corporate reporting team on the provision of reporting, this team will lead on financial performance support in year and across years in line with the new 3 year devolved financial planning model.

This role and its team will provideoutstanding partnering services to the core operational teams including Estates, IT, Student & Education, Research Management and other crucial 'head office' activities.

Supporting local teams in short and long term planning, performance management support,financial advice and decision support.

King's is an ambitious and growing university with a clear academically led investment plan.

This post will also oversee financial reporting, advice and support for capital investment projects through a Strategic & Capital Investment Fund and their self/ externally funded Campus Development Fund.

King's are seeking to further grow financial literacy, sector specific economic awareness and advice for decision makers.

This role will have at its core a commitment to the use of data to inform and improve long term planning, in year forecasting and financialperformance in partnership with faculty and central service leadership.

King's are looking to grow their support and advice, particularly to directorate heads and the Senior Vice Principal (Operations), and onwards through the important management roles throughout the central service directorates where financial and operationaldecisions are made.

Bringing consistency, intelligence and a partnering approach, the business partnering service will be close to and integrated into the real activity at the College.

The role holder will play a wider role as a senior member of the finance management team on cross college initiatives and may be asked to deputise for the Deputy CFO or their own peers at Director level and contribute to the development and progression ofad-hoc senior finance projects.