Finance

The purpose of the Finance Unit is to support the University’s aim of being a financially sustainable, world-leading University, consistently delivering excellence in all areas. We will be a successful Finance function through delivering:

  • highly efficient transaction services and compliance processes for staff, students, customers, and suppliers
  • insightful information to support decision makers.
  • business partner advice on strategic finance to senior management

Finance will deliver this through efficient, effective, quality financial services and keep the University financially sustainable by following six principles:

  1. Recruit, develop and retain committed, competent, quality staff.
  2. Maintain strong governance and control through good systems and processes.
  3. Ensure there is money when we need it
  4. Know where the money is coming from, where it is going to and what it is doing.
  5. Make the money work hard on the right things.
  6. Value accurate, insightful work, delivered on time, that our users appreciate.

Finance is headed up by Andy Goor, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and has approximately 58 staff.

Finance areas of focus are:

  • Finance Operations, comprised of the University's student finance, income office, credit control, accounts payable.
  • Financial Advice and Support, providing research pre and post award support, business partnering to schools and units, budgeting, and financial planning.
  • Financial Reporting, month end close and reporting, annual financial statements, balance sheet integrity, endowment accounting, consolidation, external audit management.
  • Tax and Treasury Department, comprising customer sales, treasury function, VAT return and any other direct tax management (excluding payroll), overseas tax.
  • Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Director of Finance, includes strategic finance, long term financial planning, long term capital planning, horizon scanning, continuous development, department management, service delivery management.

General enquiries

Email: finops@st-andrews.ac.uk

Finance Operations Team
Walter Bower House
Guardbridge
KY16 0US

Finance teams

Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable are responsible for processing payments to suppliers where there is a receipted purchase order, external expenses (via non staff expenses) and staff expenses.

If you have any query relating to invoices, external expenses or staff expenses, please email apteam@st-andrews.ac.uk.

If a supplier has emailed an invoice to you, please forward this to supplierinvoices@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3094

Cash Office

The Cash Office deals with all enquiries relating to income and cash receipts.

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2585
Email: cashoffice@st-andrews.ac.uk

Finance Advice and Support

Please use the School or Professional Service email address as your first point of contact. This ensures your query is picked up promptly and directed to the most appropriate member of the Finance Advice and Support team.

Our Finance Advice and Support (FAS) team provides Business Partner, Research Finance, and a single point of contact email for Schools and Professional Services across the University.

Finance Business Partnering is headed by Kathryn Davidson and Research Finance by Nicola Coates. They can be contacted via hofas@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Tax and Treasury

We deal with all enquiries relating to raising sales invoices and, in particular, the tax treatment of income that the University receives. Please email vatenquiries@st-andrews.ac.uk.