Senior Management Accountant

The finance team at St Catharine’s College is looking to recruit the role of Senior Management Accountant to lead the delivery of a high-quality management accounting service and be a line manager to members of the Finance team.

This post offers the opportunity for an outstanding candidate to lead on the delivery of all aspects of the College’s management accounting, including cost management, cash flow management, variance analysis and budgeting and forecasting and, providing support to the Head of Finance on the College’s financial strategic priorities.  

This role requires someone with significant post qualification experience of working in a Finance Department as either a Management or Financial Accountant. Our ideal candidate will have accomplished people management skills and be able to demonstrate how they can be a leading figure in change and continuous improvement including: standardising and automating processes, producing productivity improvements and a robust suite of standard management reports and dashboards, enabling monitoring and measuring key cost drivers to support management insight.

This post will suit someone who is able to: 
•    Work collaboratively and provide appropriate challenge and insight.
•    Mentor, coach and support others to think through problems by providing appropriate knowledge.
•    Take policies and procedures and transfer into actionable processes with the ability to review and make improvements.
•    Demonstrate they are results and delivery orientated and be a change agent with personal impact.
•    Manage projects to successful completion as well as more regular processes.

A full copy of the job description can be found here.

If you can demonstrate most of these abilities and attributes through your experiences to date, we would welcome your application.

Employment arrangements
This is a permanent appointment (subject to a 6 month probation period). 
Competitive salary range of FTE £50,000 - £55,000 depending on skills and experience.
Full time hours of work are 37.5 per week.
Please visit the 'Join our Team' page for details on our staff benefits.

Application process
Please submit a completed the College's application form and email it along with a covering letter, outlining your suitability for the position, a copy of your CV and the Equality and Diversity monitoring form to: recruitment@caths.cam.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 22 January 2025.  Interviews are expected to be held on Friday 31 January 2025.