Senior Finance Business Partner

Overview

SRUC’s Finance team plays a critical role in enabling the institution to deliver on its mission through sound financial management, strategic insight, and operational support. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the team provides a cohesive service encompassing financial control, planning, analysis, and procurement. The team ensures the integrity of financial operations and partners with academic, commercial and professional services colleagues to support budgeting, forecasting, and performance monitoring.

Finance and Procurement support decision-making by delivering meaningful insight into financial performance, risks, and opportunities.

The Senior Finance Business Partner will shape financial strategy and support key organisational decisions. Acting as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, you will provide high-quality financial insight, challenge and support across a diverse portfolio of academic, commercial and professional services. You will lead and develop the Finance Business Partnering service, ensuring consistent, value-adding support across the institution. As a member of the Finance Leadership Team, you will influence financial strategy, organisational performance and resource allocation, helping shape how Finance supports decision‑making across SRUC.

This is an opportunity to combine strategic leadership with hands-on business partnering in one of Scotland’s most distinctive higher education institutions.

• Lead and develop the Finance Business Partnering service to provide consistent, value-adding support across the institution.
• Act as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, delivering high-quality financial insight and challenge.
• Influence financial strategy, organisational performance and resource allocation as part of the Finance Leadership Team.
• Collaborate with academic, commercial and professional services to support budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making.

• Fully qualified accountant (e.g. CA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent). Candidates with substantial relevant experience and demonstrable equivalent capability may be considered in exceptional circumstances.
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For the purposes of sponsorship, this role may be eligible for sponsorship depending on candidate circumstances.

This is an opportunity to shape how Finance partners with the wider organisation. You’ll work alongside senior leaders across academic, commercial and professional services, influencing strategic decisions while developing a high-performing business partnering function.

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Generous annual leave
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Investment in learning and development
• Generous family leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted RAC Membership

SRUC is committed to valuing diversity, equality and human rights. SRUC encourages applications from disabled people. SRUC is a member of the Athena SWAN charter.

SRUC is a charitable company limited by guarantee, SC003712. Registered in Scotland No SC103046