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Ivy Rock Partners is proud to be working with King's College London in recruiting a new Director of Financial Planning & Performance to work alongside their academic faculties and forge meaningful relationships with their Executive Deans and newly appointed Senior Vice Principal. If you are an exceptional and resilient leader, who wants to foster a high-performance culture in one of the world's leading universities - this could be the perfect opportunity for you. King's College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. They are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising their vision of making the world a better place. Through their commitment to world class education, impactful research and genuine service to society, they are creating positive change in their communities, both in London and on the world stage. King's College's Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to their 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas: Educating the next generation of change-makers; Challenging ideas and driving change through research; Giving back to society through meaningful service; Working with local communities in London; Fostering global citizens with an international perspective. This is a critical role within the Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance team that will lead, develop and deliver high quality financial business partnering and decision support to the academic faculties of the university. Reporting to the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and part of the senior management of the newly established Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance section, this role will provide leadership of the faculty facing finance business partners. Working closely with the corporate reporting team on the provision of reporting, this team will lead on financial performance support in year and across years in line with their new 3 year devolved financial planning model. This role and its team will provide outstanding partnering services to nine faculties and the school of professional and continuing education including local financial strategy, short and long term planning, performance management support, financial advice and decision support. King's are changing the delivery of the management accounting service and require someone to grow the business partnering aspects in service to their faculties. This will seek to further grow financial literacy, sector specific economic awareness and advice for decision makers at King's. This will have at its core a commitment to the use of data to inform and improve long term planning, in year forecasting and financial performance in partnership with faculty and central service leadership. King's are looking to make a step change in their support and advice, particularly to Executive Deans and their newly appointed Senior Vice Principal (Academic) and onwards through the important management roles throughout the academic departments where financial and operational decisions are made. Bringing consistency, intelligence and a partnering approach, the business partnering service will be close to and integrated into the real heart of activity at the College.