b'Welcome to the annual review of Trinitys Financial Services Division (FSD) for2021/22, which provides an outline of FSDs mission, vision and values, a summaryof our achievements for the year along with details of key targets and actions for thecoming year. Also highlighted are some of our stakeholder engagement initiatives,including events, workshops, and seminars undertaken during the year.Following the full resumption of academic activity on campus in September 2021,our colleagues across the University have worked hard to support Trinitys post-Executive pandemic recovery and address new and emerging challenges. In FSD, we continueSummary to support those eorts and the strategic needs of the University in an agile andresponsive manner. We have refined and developed our online and digital resourcesand oerings, and all our workshop and training sessions were very well-attended.Our focus on financial planning and analysis has remained, with the objective ofincreased process automation and digitalisation to enhance our management andend-user reporting.The key enabler in this regard continues to be the ongoingdevelopment of the University-wide Financial Information System (FIS), whichcontinues to be an area of strategic importance for FSD. Sustainability has emerged as an ever-increasing matter of focus and concern for theUniversity as a whole, as well as more locally within FSD and we are currentlyexploring the scale and scope of new sustainability-related reporting requirements.Furthermore, and following the launch a new 5-year Procurement Strategy in 2021,the Procurement Team led-out both locally and within the Sector to engage with theUniversitys Top 50 suppliers in the areas of sustainability and biodiversity to betterPeter Reynolds, understand, measure, manage and improve Trinitys supply chain impact. SomeChief Financial Oicer preliminary operational changes have followed, with the Universitys new furnitureframework and hotel panel now including sustainability/carbon-metric elements. As the University continues its post-pandemic recovery, FSD has been at theforefront of assessing and mitigating the ongoing financial impacts and ourexpertise in financial planning and analysis has remained critical, informing thedecisions taken at both an operational and strategic level. While Trinitysperformance during the year has been stronger than forecast and signs of recoveryand growth are clear, inflationary pressures (including significant increases inenergy prices) and global events such as the war in Ukraine brought new pressuresto bear during the year, that will continue into FY23 and beyond.'