Stuart Findlay has joined Heart of Midlothian connected a season-long indebtedness from Oxford United, with caput manager Derek McInnes expressing his delight astatine being capable to enactment with the "domineering defender" erstwhile again.
The 29-year-old centre-half was connected indebtedness to Kilmarnock for the past 2 seasons and present follows his manager astatine Rugby Park to Tynecastle.
Oxford accidental Findlay volition permission the Championship nine adjacent summertime erstwhile his declaration expires.
McInnes told Hearts' website: "Stuart is evidently idiosyncratic I cognize precise good from the years we've antecedently spent moving together.
"I cognize his attributes and each facet of his game. He's a domineering defender, beardown and athletic, and helium is simply a existent person connected and disconnected the pitch."
Findlay, who has 1 headdress for Scotland, started his vocation arsenic a younker Celtic earlier spells connected indebtedness to Greenock Morton, Dumbarton and Kilmarnock earlier a power to Newcastle United successful 2016.
Having failed to interruption into the first-team, helium instrumentality to Scotland connected indebtedness to Kilmarnock earlier a imperishable power successful 2018.
A determination to Philadelphia Union followed successful 2021 earlier joining Oxford successful 2022.
Despite being a adjacent ever-present successful his archetypal play with the past League One outfit, helium returned northbound for different spell successful Ayrshire.