Northern Deputy FD Meeting

Thursday 7 December - Manchester Metropolitan University 

Chairs: Andrew Crozier (University of Salford) and Paul Cropper (University of Huddersfield)

Registration from 9.45am with an anticipated finish time of 3.45pm.  Refreshments and a buffet lunch will be provided.

Arrival:

The meeting will be held at: Room 3.18 on the 3^rd floor of the Business School’s north atrium.

Address: Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, All Saints Campus, Lyceum Pl, Manchester M15 6BY

Google Maps link: https://goo.gl/maps/iHpyPWAMmpM2

Further information on travel directions to MMU: How to find us | Manchester Metropolitan University (mmu.ac.uk)

For those travelling by car there are two NCP car parks within walking distance of All Saints campus, Manchester Chester Street and Manchester Circle Square.

Wednesday Night Social:

For those wishing to arrive the evening before, there is an excellent opportunity to get to know colleagues, do some networking and enjoy a night out in Manchester. Please confirm whether you will be attending the evening meal when completing the booking form.

A table will be booked at the Don Giovanni restaurant in Manchester City Centre for 7.30pm (TBC)

Address details: 1 Peter House, Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5AN

Don Giovanni

Suggested hotel accommodation: please click here

Agenda

09:45    Registration (Tea and Coffee)

10:00    Welcome and Introductions

10:15    TBC (Andrew Hewett, Director of Finance, Manchester Metropolitan University)

10.45    Aspire Cash and Open Banking: Revolutionising Financial Support for Students (David Marshall, Director & Nick Dale, CFO, JS Group) addition presentation details below

11.30    Break (Tea and Coffee)

11:45    What the data says about UK HE and its future (Laura Scanga, Director of Business Development, dataHE)

12:30    Lunch

13:15    TBC - Fusion Implementation (Angela Williams, Head of Systems, Projects and Innovation, Durham University)

14.00    AOB (including additional ideas for round table, ideas for future external speakers, volunteers to host future meetings and date of next meeting)

14:30    Round Table Discussion

• Work Load Modelling (Tony Langford)
• Pensions – cost mitigation (Tony Langford)
• TBC
• TBC
• TBC

15.45    Finish

JS Group Presentation:

UK universities invest over £1bn per annum in financial support to their students. The support comes in the form of scholarships, bursaries, hardship, emergency payments and numerous one-off small payments.

Many of these payments are low value and high volume, administratively cumbersome and suck up valuable finance staff time.  Often they take days to reach students and there is limited  data on how the funds are used and none on the financial payback from specifically targeting higher withdrawal risk students

In 2022 the JS Group decided to focus on solving some of these key issues.  How to get cash bursary’s to students quickly and effectively, how to reduce the internal overhead in the payments process and to create meaningful MI that could help universities target specific student profiles and better design overall investment.

In this session JS Group will walk the group through their Aspire Cash solution and the impact it is having across partners.

Next meeting:

The next meeting: TBC