The role of the Bursar is specified in the Statutes as being ‘responsible for the administration of the property and pecuniary affairs of the College under the authority of the Provost’. Nowadays this roughly corresponds to the role of Chief Financial Officer, and the most important requirement of my post is to oversee the management of the College’s finances, including our endowment investments. However, the role of the Bursar also now includes a certain amount of responsibility for all of the non-academic operations of the College.