Financial Systems

It is the Division’s aspiration to have the best possible Systems to support the School’s operations and development.  It is our strategic aim to support the School’s development.               

We will influence and add value to the School and its operations and development, in particular by the provision of timely data/analysis and benchmark data.

We will plan development to minimise risk and future-proof our systems (as far as is possible), and a ‘to be’ state of; 

• efficient, customer-focussed operational services;
• being agile and adaptable to change;
• flexible, robust and secure systems and processes;
• excellent management information and planning systems;
• single source data, with consistent and understood terminology.

The Finance Systems team are comprised of fully and part-qualified accountants, and are the experts in the School’s financial systems. Systems in this context are defined in the broadest sense and include all financial processes, including those which are partially manual. Substantial financial processes and data exist outside of Central Finance and core Finance Systems, and that these are in-scope for the team and strategy.  

• responsibility for the integrity, security and ensuring appropriate access to financial data. This extends to incoming and outgoing interfaces and processes generating financial entries in feeder systems.
• responsible for signing-off all changes to and new implementations of systems that affect financial processes or data.
• key liaison point between the division and stakeholders on Financial Systems matters, and internally and externally aims to add value to and promote the effective use of our financial systems, including assurance of value for money.
• plays a key role in interpreting requirements, suggesting/evaluating options and providing, or assisting stakeholders to self-serve, appropriate financial information and/or financial data for further analysis.
• responsible for commissioning, delivering and co-ordinating internal and external financial training.
• responsible for ensuring that DTS strategy takes proper regard to the ambition of the Financial Systems strategy, and vice-versa. Similarly, this strategy seeks to align to the School and Divisional strategy and priorities. 

To monitor budgets, budget holders and controllers have access to financial reports from the Budget Holder's Dashboard via OneFinance.

For more information on the reports available to budget holders and how to gain access, please contact your FP&A Manager.  

Please refer to the Legacy reporting page on the OneFinance website.

If you have any questions or issues regarding the School's Financial Systems please submit your request via Finance Division Enquiry Form.