Faculty Finance Lead (Faculty of Science)

The Finance Team Lead is responsible for leading a team in resource planning, analysis, and reporting, including budgeting, financial forecasting, and cost-benefit analysis. The role also involves providing finance business partnering support to faculties, enhancing internal controls, managing gift finance, and ensuring the integration and improvement of financial systems and processes. The finance lead will collaborate with faculty and central management, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and maintain accurate financial records and reporting.

Duties & Responsibilities

Resource Planning, Analysis, and Reporting:

1. Plan annual budgets and prepare financial forecasts and variance reports.
2. Prepare cost-benefit and profitability analysis and simulations for programmes/projects.
3. Calculate and issue financial and operating metrics for cost/overall performance tracking.
4. Allocate the budget to faculties and departments. Prepare the Faculty/Department’s annual/quarterly/monthly financial positions for management review.
5. Devise and monitor cost-effective and efficient data accumulation systems/processes to provide appropriate costing information to management.
6. Support long-term financial projection to aid in strategic planning.

Finance Business Partnering Support to Faculties:

1. Provide finance business partnering support to faculty. Enhance finance business partnering capabilities within faculties.
2. Assist faculty and central management in reviewing faculty budgets and resource allocation.
3. Drive finance functional synergies across faculties.
4. Provide support on financial matters that are not centralized (e.g., assisting with withholding tax matters).