The Finance team provides a range of services and advice to all areas of the University to ensure that its finances – present and future – support the University’s delivery of the Birmingham 2030 Strategic Framework.
The Office does this through the following divisions:
- Financial Services: Provides a wide range of financial services, including: Budgeting, forecasting, five-year planning; monthly management accounts; capital projects and subsidiaries; external year end audit; tax; business partnering; connecting Finance with the Research Strategy and Services division (RSSD).
- Procurement: Providing procurement support and advice to all areas of the University, to make sure we get best value for money and carbon management from our suppliers – for everything from small, day-to-day orders to huge contracts.
- Transaction Services: Making payments, for example expenses and supplier payments; taking payments, for example student fees, commercial payments; managing online payment platforms.
- Finance Analysts: Providing data analysis, training and sustainable, future-proofed reporting.
- Core Systems Optimisation Team (CSOT): Maintaining, updating and continuously improving the core systems which underpin the activities of the University.
- Insurance: Looking after the University’s insurance requirements.
- UoB Enterprise: Helping Birmingham researchers turn their ideas into new services, products and enterprises that meet real-world needs. Includes Academic Consultancy, incubation, commercialisation programmes and more. Find out more.
- Internal Audit: An independent function that provides an objective assurance and consultancy service.
University colleagues can find out more about our teams at Finance people (opens in SharePoint).