Deputy Business Manager

Are you a finance professional seeking a new management challenge in a
stimulating and rewarding environment, working with people undertaking
groundbreaking medical research that changes lives for the better?





The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (CVMed), part of the Radcliffe
Department of Medicine, is investing in the new role of Deputy Business
Manager to lead its Grants and Finance team. Working closely with the Business
Manager, you will provide strategic and operational guidance to ensure that
our research and other activities receive the highest quality support to allow
them to flourish.





In this role you will lead on CVMed’s budgeting and forecasting activity and
use your experience of financial management and reporting to ensure that we
stay on track to these budgets and provide advice to rectify variances where
they occur.





You will also have a strategic oversight of our research grants and other
contracts, including clinical trials, ensuring that we are spending to budget
and that this expenditure falls within the terms and conditions of the
contracts. Similarly, you will support the Business Manager in the sound
management of our three Clinical Research Facilities, including reviewing and
implementing costing models which ensure sustainability of these facilities.
You will need to liaise with many teams internal and external to CVMed and the
University to facilitate these and being a confident and clear communicator is
key.





As the line manager to the Grants and Finance Manager and the
Finance/Purchasing Officer, you will be responsible for their development and
training, as well as for that of the wider Grants and Finance team, and in
this role you will be supported to pursue your own professional development.





Aside from finance, there will be opportunities gain a wider portfolio of
management skills and experiences through supporting the Business Manager in
other areas of their work, such as human resources and governance, through
providing management support to HR casework at an appropriate level and
attending committees and meetings. You will also deputise for the Business
Manager in their absence.





Along with the skills and experience described above, you will have proven
management and administrative skills, alongside excellent communication across
all mediums and be proficient in the use of spreadsheets, databases, and
financial software packages (ideally Oracle Financials). Your financial
expertise could be gained through completion of an accounting qualification,
such as ACA, CIMA, ACCA and CIPFA and/or through experience of working in
financial roles.





For informal enquiries about this role, please contact CVMed’s Business
Manager, Joel Atkin, at joel.atkin@cardiov.ox.ac.uk.





Only applications received online will be considered and the closing date for
applications is midday on Friday 20 September. It is anticipated that
interviews will be held week commencing 7 October.