Our ambition is to make Scotland an outstanding place to learn, educate, research and innovate – now and for the future.

Finance

The Finance directorate is responsible for leading SFC’s work on the allocation and distribution of funding to colleges and universities.

It provides colleges with FE student support funding in the form of bursaries and allowances. In both the college and university sectors the directorate has responsibility for capital infrastructure funding and net zero. The directorate also assesses the financial health of colleges and universities.

The directorate also provides financial services related to SFC’s running costs budgets.

Richard Maconachie (Register of interests), Director of Finance, 0131 313 6527.
Gordon Craig, Deputy Director, Tertiary Education Funding., 0131 313 6500.
Ursula Lodge, Deputy Director, Institutional Sustainability & Capital, 0131 313 6542.
Tiffany Ritchie, Deputy Director, Finance and Operations, 0131 313 6510.

Director's Office

Susan McKenzie, Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, 0131 313 6637.
Fiona O'Neill, Assistant Director, 0131 313 6525, email: foneill@sfc.ac.uk (on secondment).
Liz Welch, Assistant Director Finance Systems & Transformation, 0131 313 6500.
Catherine Atkinson, Senior Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6540.
Graeme Scotland, Senior Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6567.
Nick Dixon, Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6677.
Suranjith Fernando, Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6635.
Des Parr, Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6548.
Caroline Sutherland, Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6500.
Jude Thomson, Payment and Procurement Officer, 0131 313 6550.
Shelley Doran, Assistant Finance Officer, 0131 313 6632.
Yasser Hassan, Assistant Finance Officer, 0131 313 6500.

Andrew Millar, Assistant Director, 0131 313 6538.
Rufus Logan, Assistant Director, Capital and Climate Change, 0131 313 6672.
Hazel Dalgard, Senior Policy Analysis Officer, Capital and Climate Change, 0131 313 6643.
Alison Meldrum, Senior Policy Officer, Capital and Climate Change, 0131 313 6625.
Deanne Holden, Senior Policy Officer, Capital and Climate Change, 0131 313 6615.
Elspeth Nicholson, Policy and Projects Support Officer, Capital and Climate Change, 0131 313 6607.
Steve Keightley, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6587.
Wilma MacDonald, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6565.
Ann Robertson, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6689.
Claire Taylor, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6604.
Peter Ward, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6512.
Ashley Coutts, Group Co-Ordinator (Capital), 0131 313 6537.

Hazel Dalgard, Senior Policy Analysis Officer, Capital and Climate Change, 0131 313 6500 - see also Environmental Sustainability in Research and Innovation Directorate.

Gavin Bruce, Assistant Director Funding, 0131 313 6585.
Scarlett Campbell, Senior Policy Analysis Officer, 0131 313 6516.
Duncan Condie, Senior Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6671.
Rebecca Fairgrieve-Stewart, Senior Policy Analysis Officer (European Social Fund) 0131 313 6687, rfairgrievestewart@sfc.ac.uk.
Paula Haynes, Senior Funding Analysis Officer (European Social Fund), 0131 313 6515.
Elizabeth Horsburgh, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6681.
Ken Johnston, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6562.
Hazel McCartney, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6601.
Alyssa Newman, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6588.
Chelsea McIntyre, Policy Analysis Officer (European Social Fund), 0131 313 6586.
Hannah Ross, Policy Analysis Officer (European Social Fund), 0131 313 6569.
Rory Stride, Funding Policy Officer (Student Support), 0131 313 6500.
Sarah Jane Hunter, Assistant Policy Analysis Officer (European Social Fund), 0131 313 6631, sjhunter@sfc.ac.uk.
Sybille Rush, Group Co-ordinator, 0131 313 6557.

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Unless specified, the standard email address format for SFC staff is first initial+surname@sfc.ac.uk.