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Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for financial excellence and student experience? We’re looking for a dynamic Chief Finance Officer to lead the charge in managing tuition fees, billing, and income collection across our institution.

The Finance Officer plays a key role in ensuring the financial integrity and sustainability of the university. This position is responsible for leading core accounting functions, preparing statutory and management reports, supporting strategic financial planning, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and charitable reporting standards.

In this pivotal role, you’ll drive financial sustainability, ensure regulatory compliance, and deliver a seamless experience for students and staff alike. You’ll work closely with senior leadership, academic departments, and external partners to optimise income streams and support our long-term goals.

This would be an ideal opportunity for an ambitious individual to inspire and empower stakeholders and the teaching profession to achieve the LGUC mission. You will:

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading the strategic development of tuition fee policies and payment plans
• Overseeing student billing, income collection, and debt recovery processes
• Ensuring compliance with GTEC regulations (CMA, SLC, etc.)
• Collaborating across departments to enhance the student journey
• Managing a high-performing team with a focus on service excellence
• Providing insights and reports to senior leadership and governing bodies
• Oversee a timely and effective response to auditing, including clear and timely communication with auditors, and any subsequent actions. This will also include playing a lead role with any audit re-tendering process, with the Audit and Risk Committee.
• Oversee a timely and effective response to internal audit scrutiny, where these affect any aspect of the school’s infrastructure and/ or services provision. Report to the Executive Leader and Trustees on these.
• Maintain the 3-5 year Medium-Term Financial Plan (MTFP), ensuring it is as accurate as possible and that it is based on well-considered and modelled assumptions and presents a clear set of financial KPIs for the Council Board.
• Support the Executive and timetable with the production of the Integrated Curriculum Financial Plan (ICFP), which closely links curriculum and staffing with affordability, based on a series of benchmarked KPIs. Ensure staffing budgets are updated for all staffing changes within the school to ensure an accurate staff costs budget is always available.
• With HR, ensure payroll is timely and correct monthly, reconciling and recording payroll entries monthly and summarised annually in order to meet audit requirements. Final sign off of monthly payroll.
• Ensure the timely production and presentation for the Executive Head and Trustees of monthly management reports, with related analysis and recommendations. This will include cashflow forecasts, performance against KPIs and comparison/ benchmarked information.
• Ensure all required policies, linked to ‘finance’ are up-dated in a timely fashion and ready for executive and Trustee ‘sign-off’ and school-wide implementation.
• Play a role in supporting the Executive Leader in delivering our ‘2030 Vision & Strategy’, particularly regarding the efficient deployment of financial resources.
• Advise the Executive Head and Trustees regarding all types of investment, considering possible risks.
• Use the agreed budget to actively monitor and control performance to achieve best value.
• Oversee the management of all strands of the school funds, managing the cash flow effectively, and manage and monitor the investment of school reserves to ensure efficient use, working with our bankers to ensure zero risk scenarios and tight investment controls.
• Plan and manage the school and Enterprise Ltd tax liabilities under existing and proposed legislation.
• Procure goods and services on a value-for-money basis (economy, efficiency and effectiveness) to support education delivery within the context of regulatory frameworks and legislation.
• Ensure rigorous and robust finance systems, with high levels of control and acuity.
• Liaise closely with auditors and oversee the annual audit process for LGUC and review the financial statements prepared by the auditors and liaise with the auditors to resolve any issues. File the auditor’s report with Ghana Companies Registration.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in student finance within higher education or a similar environment
• Strong knowledge of UK tuition fee structures and funding models
• Excellent financial acumen and experience with financial systems and reporting tools. Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Exceptional communication skills and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Demonstrable ability to develop and implement fee policies and procedures aligned with strategic goals.
• Experience in managing debt recovery processes and improving income collection efficiency.
• Proficiency in data analysis and income forecasting to support financial planning.
• Knowledge of compliance requirements related to CMA, SLC, OfS, and student finance. Ability to work collaboratively across departments and influence senior stakeholders.

Desirable

✔ Experience in private higher education
✔ Professional finance qualifications (e.g., ACCA, CIMA)

Your Impact

• Drive accurate income forecasting and reporting
• Improve billing efficiency and debt recovery outcomes
• Enhance student satisfaction through clear, responsive fee management
• Support institutional financial health and strategic planning

Organisational Planning & Strategy

• Work with the Executive Leadership Team to shape the organisational business plan, in partnership with programs head and the Council, supported by a clear budget and plan for income generation.
• Lead the implementation of the strategy, ensuring that KPIs are met / action is taken to course correct, and provide day-to-day guidance and long-term strategic direction for all employees within the University
• Oversee the University existing and new products and services, ensuring that they are of the highest standard, and are informed by research and impact evaluation

Leadership

• Advise on the education content of internal and external communications
• Provide overall accountability and leadership in a range of areas including Teaching, publishing, content, research, accreditation status and other professional learning and partner institutions accreditation status
• Report to the Council as required and be the Executive Leadership Team representative for relevant committees and ensure they have the reports and data needed to make informed decisions for the College.
• Provide leadership and development of individuals within the team, including setting clear objectives, responsibilities, performance standards and development goals and managing these accordingly – through informal coaching and feedback and formal discussions including regular one to ones and appraisals
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade of the post as directed by managers.

1. Awareness of and compliance with Health and Safety legislation and policy as relevant to the post.
2. An understanding of the Ghana Education, Equality and Diversity policies and a commitment to organization growth.
3. Be committed and adhere to the safety of young and vulnerable adults that we come into contact within our service delivery.
4. Ability to support staff and students and demonstrate empathy. 
5. Teaching expertise – experience of working with teachers and higher education, leaders in a range of contexts, ideally with a focus on professional learning
6. Highly credible, increasingly respected profile (including in public speaking) and a strong network within the education sector
7. Significant professional experience including a senior leadership role and interactions with board level executives or equivalent
8. Ability to motivate and inspire the whole staff team to consistently deliver quality services and develop a high-performance culture
9. Be future focused able to make strategic decisions and deliver capabilities ahead of the institution business requirements as well as in response to them

Skills

1. Excellent and adaptable communication skills
2. Strong autonomy and accountability
3. Strategic thinker and results-driven
4. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
5. Good attention to detail
6. Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
7. Articulate, and literate – able to express complex concepts both verbally and written down
8. Highly effective organisational skills, with ability to manage a very demanding and varied workload
9. Calm and resilient with a warm sense of humour and ability to work well under pressure
10. Highly numerate (desirable)

Desirable

1. Strong academic skills e.g. at PhD / Master’s level 
2. An appreciation of the drivers of company profitability and cost management
3. Experience of financial management, risk management and strategic business planning
4. Experience of successfully identifying and securing funding bids
5. Experience of successfully leading the delivery of multidisciplinary projects, programmes or organisational initiatives of significant size or impact.

• IT Literate to a good standard
• Understanding benefits of physical activity on an individual basis 
• Knowledge in wellbeing

• Risk Assessment awareness. 
• Knowledge in sports and wellbeing
• Train the trainer 

• PHD, Masters or equivalent

• Qualification in sports performance/science or development.
• Leadership and Management 
• Qualification coaching or leadership.
• Fitness Instructor Qualification 

• Experience of working in a higher education management environment with an emphasis on improving levels of education growth

• Activity coordinator experience

• Working in sports sector

• Behavioural change technics and motivational strategies

• An effective listener that demonstrates an understanding of people’s needs. 
• Able to build inclusive relationships with a diverse range of people.
• Must be confident communicating with customers and colleagues across internal and external partners
• Excellent communication & Customer relationship skills
• Ability to network and work in partnership with others. 
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Ability to plan work in a logical way. 
• Work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to work unsupervised and to use own initiative. 
• Positive, energetic, and self-motivated attitude.
• Flexibility and adaptability to respond to changing needs and situations

• Ability to demonstrate commitment to LGUC core values and behaviours (“the LGUC Way”) · 
• A commitment to delivering LGUC Strategic Plan ·
• Full Driving License · 
• Able to work evenings/weekends