O pozici
We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.
There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.
About our Department :
The Finance Department at Arden University plays a pivotal role in supporting our ambitious growth and innovation agenda. As trusted partners across the University, we ensure that every financial decision underpins Arden’s mission to make education more accessible, affordable, and impactful for learners worldwide.
Our department is structured around excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement — providing strategic insight, robust financial management, and efficient transactional services that enable the University to deliver on its goals. From managing core financial operations and student finance to driving digital transformation across systems and processes, we are committed to achieving best-in-class financial stewardship and service delivery.
About the Opportunity:
As our Senior Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial performance and strategic direction of the University, partnering closely with academic and professional service leaders to drive informed decision-making and sustainable growth.
This is a highly visible and influential position, responsible for leading financial planning, business partnering, performance reporting, and strategic analysis across our Faculties and key support functions. You will provide meaningful insight and challenge to senior stakeholders, helping to ensure that academic and commercial objectives are achieved while maintaining a strong focus on value creatio
Co budeš dělat
- leading financial planning, business partnering, performance reporting, and strategic analysis across our Faculties and key support functions
- providing meaningful insight and challenge to senior stakeholders, helping to ensure that academic and commercial objectives are achieved while maintaining a strong focus on value creation and operational excellence
- delivering analysis across key performance drivers including student revenue, progression, product profitability, pricing strategies, and teaching resource utilisation
- supporting major academic initiatives and investment decisions through robust financial modelling, business case development, and return-on-investment analysis, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to maximise impact
- leading the development of financial models, forecasting tools, and management reporting frameworks that provide timely, relevant, and actionable insights to senior leadership teams
Koho hledáme
- You are a qualified and commercially minded finance professional with significant experience in business partnering, financial planning, and performance analysis within a complex organisation.
- You thrive in a collaborative environment, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders and providing insightful financial challenge that supports strategic decision-making.
- You are equally comfortable operating at both a strategic and operational level, balancing attention to detail with a focus on long-term value creation.
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant experience in a senior finance business partnering role within a complex organisation.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to identify risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
- Proven experience of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
- Advanced financial modelling skills
Benefity
- study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friend
- ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
- Plus, other excellent benefits
