Professional Education Delivery Manager

ACCA is the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. We're the world's most forward thinking professional accountancy body. Since we were founded in 1904, we have expanded to over 1200 staff in 53 countries, meaning we’re a truly global organisation.

Our people enjoy a working environment that is dynamic, human and connected, and have a strong focus on creating value for our students and members.

We’re currently looking for a Professional Education Delivery Manager on a full time, permanent basis.  This position is based in our Glasgow office.

The Job

On a day to day basis, you’ll be involved in the following:

• Working as a business partner to the Professional Education team, assessing departmental performance against both the annual budget and company’s long-term strategy and support the development and execution of the operational, commercial and financial propositions
• Creating and managing the process for business planning across the department, delivering detailed insight on all financial elements of all the products and solutions for the next 5 years
• Defining, tracking and reviewing the financial and performance reports required to support the accurate measurement and ongoing monitoring of the success of the products and solutions
• Contributing to the delivery of processes required to develop appropriate B2C and B2B models from an operational and finance perspective to support rollout of the new products
• Creating detailed financial and commercial requirements with Procurement for the RFP process in order to ensure that sufficient control and rigour is built in to supplier contracts
• Managing the existing contracts for all professional education products and solutions and taking on-going responsibility for measuring the effectiveness of the suppliers and the services provided, ensuring that they achieve best-value for ACCA

The Person

We’re looking for someone who: 

• Has significant experience in a strategic and departmental level financial and business planning role, preferably in an education and learning environment
• Is educated to at least degree level or equivalent – a professional accountancy qualification is highly desirable  
• Has proven commercial skills that are appropriate to the delivery of technology focussed products and solutions
• Has proven ability of identifying opportunities for growth and incremental opportunities with client partners
• Has excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships and establish rapport and credibility with a range of stakeholders, internally and externally
• Has excellent organisational skills, with the ability to multitask, meet strict deadlines and deliver to a high standard

The Perks

And in working with us, you’ll enjoy:

• Core benefits including Private Healthcare, Income Protection and Group Pension Plan
• Customisable benefits such as Dental Insurance, Childcare Vouchers and Cycle to Work scheme
• Flexi-time, dress down Fridays and a great working environment

Interested in this role? Click ‘Apply now’ to submit your application.

Close Date: 9am 31/07/2017