About
Welcome to Finance
The Finance team provides specialist skills and financial expertise to faculties and divisions across the University.
Our Leaders
Matt Cressman
Chief Financial Officer (Acting)
Finance Directors
Finance Services
While each of our six teams have distinct responsibilities, they work closely together to ensure our customers get a seamless service. In other words, no matter who you ask a question of in finance, they will help you.
- Services we offer
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Strategic Procurement
Acting Director - Janet Pursehouse
The team:
- Offers support and advice regarding the purchasing of goods and services
- Manages existing and new suppliers, quotes and tenders
- Supplier expenditure
- Contract management
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Oversees high value/high risk buying processes
Finance Operations
Director - Michelle O’Connor
Finance Operations – Includes the Finance Services Teams
The team:
- Manage accounts payable
- Process customer billing
- Manage accounts receivable
- Purchases goods & services
- Processes credit card expenses
- Processes expense reimbursements
- Manages travel administration
Business Insights
CFO (Acting) - Matt Cressman
Finance & Strategy Planning
Process & Technology Strategy
Business Partnering
Strategy 2025
Management Reporting & Analysis
Research FinanceThe teams:
- Provide organisation-wide financial management strategy
- Provide process and technology strategy and systems support
- Provide strategic management and commercial support
- Student load planning, workforce planning, business case viability guidance
- Provide senior level business finance advice to faculties and divisions
- Provide advice on grant balances and treatment of any surplus/deficit
- Prepare calculations to advise on total payroll costs for staff charged to research projects
- Ensure timely billing of granting bodies
- Ensure timely allocation of interest to projects where applicable
- Preparation of finance reports for submission together with progress reports
- Prepare budgets
- Prepare forecasts
- Perform non-research general accounting
- Provide management reports & analysis
- Provide business advice & support
Treasury, Investments and Insurance
Director - Andrew Fellowes
The team:
- Perform treasury activities
- Perform insurance activities
- Manage investments
Group Financial Control
Director - Catherine Yeung
The team:
- Performs statutory financial reporting
- Manage policy, financial compliance
- Financial process control
- Provide specialist advice and support including tax
- Manages financial data integrity
- Manages tax compliance
Business Management & Planning
Director - Chris Carbert
The team:
- Manage the day to day operational activities of Finance
- Provide a central point of support for all administrative processes
- Support business activities by providing expertise across all professional service functions
- Delivery of operational business planning and process improvement
- Support workforce management and planning and capability development
- Manage customer relations and engagement
- Build an efficient, customer focused, capable and agile Finance function with a shared strategic direction
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