Chief Financial Officer
- Recruiter
- Brunel University
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Posted
- 07 Apr 2017
- Closes
- 05 May 2017
- Job Title
- CFO
- Category
- Education / Training
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Chief Financial Officer
Brunel University London is a leading research-intensive university that addresses the challenges facing society through ground-breaking research and educational programmes. Founded in 1966, today the University has a turnover of c. £200m and is a vibrant community of some 14,000 students from over 100 countries and 2,000 staff.
The University seeks a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to provide outstanding commercial and financial leadership and to inspire and deliver innovative and transformational change across the institution. Reporting to the Vice-Chancellor, the CFO will lead financial and corporate strategy, ensuring that the University gains maximum value from its portfolio of activities and assets whilst developing new areas of commercial activity and guiding capital investment and estate development.
With experience operating at board level in an organisation of appropriate scale and complexity, you will be a qualified accountant with expertise in portfolio management, business growth and diversification, and a record of creating lasting value. As a strategic leader you will have excellent advisory and influencing skills and the acuity to anticipate and take advantage of emerging opportunities in support of the University’s ambitious plans for growth and development.
Comfortable with ambiguity and complexity, you will have outstanding communication skills and be able to deal with multiple internal and external stakeholders. This is a demanding but rewarding position that will be suited to a highly motivated, solution-focused and commercially astute finance leader.
The closing date for applications is Friday 5th May 2017.