Finance and Funding directorate - Scottish Funding Council

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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, Director of Finance, 0131 313 6527.

Gordon Craig, Deputy Director, Tertiary Education Funding., 0131 313 6549.

Ursula Lodge, Deputy Director, Institutional Sustainability & Capital, 0131 313 6542.

Liz Welch, Interim Deputy Director, Finance and Operations, 0131 313 6510.

Director's Office

Cheryl Loughbrough, PA to Director of Finance, 0131 313 6528.

Finance and Operations

Paula Haynes, Assistant Director of Financial Management, 0131 313 6515.

Susan McKenzie, Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, 0131 313 6637.

Beki Stark, Assistant Director, Finance Systems & Transformation, 0131 313 6686.

Catherine Atkinson, Senior Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6540.

Graeme Scotland, Senior Budgeting and Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6567.

Jude Thomson, Senior Payment and Procurement Officer, 0131 313 6550.

Suranjith Fernando, Budgeting & Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6635.

Des Parr, Budgeting & Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6548.

Caroline Sutherland, Budgeting & Reporting Officer, 0131 313 6500.

Shelley Doran, Finance & Budgeting Officer, 0131 313 6632.

Elizabeth Horsburgh, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6681.

Alyssa Newman, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6588.

Sybille Rush, Group Co-ordinator, 0131 313 6557.

Nithya Gopalakrishnan, Administrative Officer, 0131 313 6674.

Yasser Hassan, Assistant Finance Officer, 0131 313 6556.

Institutional Sustainability and Capital

Cliff Barraclough, Assistant Director, Capital Projects and Programmes, 0131 313 6500.

Fiona O’Neill, Assistant Director, Institutional Financial Health and Governance, 0131 313 6574.

Andrew Millar, Assistant Director, Institutional Financial Health and Governance, 0131 313 6538.

Alison Meldrum, Senior Policy Officer, Capital and Climate Change, 0131 313 6625.

Steve Keightley, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6587.

Wilma MacDonald, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6565.

Munya Nyamasoka, Senior Finance Analyst, 0131 313 6500.

Ann Robertson, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6689.

Claire Taylor, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6604.

Peter Ward, Senior Financial Analyst, 0131 313 6512.

Nick Dixon, Capital Projects and Programme Support Officer, 0131 313 6677.

Ashley Coutts, Group Co-Ordinator, 0131 313 6537.

Institutional Sustainability and Governance contacts

Institutional Sustainability and Governance contacts for institutions [PDF]

Funding & Analysis

Gavin Bruce, Assistant Director Funding, 0131 313 6585.

Paula Haynes, Assistant Director of Financial Management, 0131 313 6515.

Gordon McBride, Assistant Director, Analysis, 0131 313 6500.

Scarlett Campbell, Senior Policy Analysis Officer, 0131 313 6516.

Duncan Condie, Senior Policy Analysis Officer, 0131 313 6671.

Rebecca Fairgrieve-Stewart, Senior Policy Analysis Officer (European Social Fund) 0131 313 6687, rfairgrievestewart@sfc.ac.uk.

Sarah Jane Hunter, Policy / Analysis Officer (European Social Fund), 0131 313 6631, sjhunter@sfc.ac.uk.

Chelsea McIntyre, Policy / Analysis Officer (European Social Fund), 0131 313 6586.

Hannah Ross, Policy / Analysis Officer (European Social Fund), 0131 313 6569.

Ken Johnston, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6562.

Hazel McCartney, Funding Policy Officer, 0131 313 6601.

Rory Stride, Funding Policy Officer (Student Support), 0131 313 6523.

Contacting staff

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