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Are you a qualified accountant with experience of reporting for major projects? Are you able to convey financial information to non-financial colleagues in a clear way?

About us

The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford is home to more than 3 million items of historical and cultural significance relating to the science and culture of image and sound. Its collection includes the world's earliest known surviving negative, the earliest television footage and the camera that made the first moving pictures in Britain. It also boasts three cinema screens, including the biggest, most immersive IMAX in West Yorkshire. The museum is currently engaged in two major activities:

Bradford was recently named UK City of Culture 2025 and is set to deliver 1000 new performances and 365 artist commissions, as well as exciting national and international collaborations. The Science and Media Museum is a major cultural asset for the district and an active partner in the 2025 programme and its legacy.The museum has recently embarked on a £6m project called Sound and Vision to develop two new galleries showcasing its world-renowned collection, accompanied by a programme of activities. This project is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and we will be working in close collaboration with local communities to make the museum the city's cultural cornerstone.Within our wider Finance Department, sits our Strategy, Planning and Financial Analysis team, which comprises a range of senior finance business partners, finance business partners and management accountants - who together have responsibility for business support for the Group's core museum operations, for projects and temporary exhibitions, and for capital programmes.

About the role

You will lead financial activity across NSMM, liaising with stakeholders from our visitor services, exhibitions, curatorial, learning, estates and communications teams. You main focus being supporting the teams to manage their budgets to deliver their objectives efficiently and effectively.

You will also provide colleagues with advice, forecasting and insight as they realise future activities and assist them to make convincing cases for investment. This will involve working with both internal and external funders. Along with this, for a small portion you will be assisting with similar finance tasks from across the group's other museums and functions.This position offers the flexibility to work in a hybrid way, however given the placement of your key stakeholders, you will still be required to be vis our Bradford site on a regular weekly basis.

About youOur finance team are motivated to be trusted financial advisors, business experts and influential voices in the wider organisation. To achieve this, we take an interest in our museum partners and their activities, help them to make the best use of our Group's financial resources and encourage them to be self-reliant in their engagement with our finance systems and processes.

Joining us, you will hold relevant accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) that allows you to understand, sense check and challenge financial information when reported. You have the ability to analyse data and present it to colleagues in a simple and appropriate way, as well as the ability to assess business performance critically and commercially.

You will have excellent communication skills and ability to connect with others, to provide financial advice and input with a range of different stakeholders. You will have a true partnering approach, whilst also planning in detail significant pieces of work and to deliver to your plans, setting clear expectations for yourself and others.

View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under 'Attachments' on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process, or click 'Apply Online' to submit an application.

What we offer

Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We know work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer up to 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays; a support with personal and professional development; employee assistance programme; enhanced contributory pension; and enhanced support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness and career breaks.

'Open for All' is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. As a national museum group, we have an ability to reach a wide and diverse population of audiences, colleagues and partners through our geography and scale.

We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation and ultimately will be able to inspire more futures. We therefore welcome applications from those who bring difference.

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