Faculty Accountant

Are you a qualified accountant ready to take your next step into a role blending strategic influence and stakeholder engagement? Join our collaborative finance team and support world-leading research and education.

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the financial future of our academic faculties while developing your own career in an encouraging and flexible environment. We are a top 10 UK University recognised for internationally excellent research and our staff are a vital part of our vibrant and innovative community.

The finance business partner element of the role provides the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of the factors driving income and costs in the academic departments in the faculty and to support them with strategic planning and other ad-hoc projects. The other element of the role provides key knowledge and tools to the rest of the Management Accounting team and preparation of university wide statutory returns.

The role will include:

• Planning and forecasting for the faculty
• Quarter-end and year-end financial processes
• Business partnering with Deans, Directors of Administration, and Associate Deans
• Project work, business cases, and processing staff request forms
• Mentoring and developing an Accountant Technician
• Communicating financial information to non-financial academic staff

This position is offered on a full-time, open-ended basis. You’ll benefit from a hybrid working pattern, working on-site two days per week (once at the Virgil Building, and another day on campus).

We are open to a part time (4 days per week) arrangement – please state your interest within your application form.

About you

You may be in a management accounting role already and looking to develop finance business partnering skills to become a key advisor. This role could also suit someone who enjoys working in a team, involvement with different activities, and the chance to develop and own practices and processes.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Be a qualified accountant with experience or a curiosity about the Higher Education sector and how universities are funded
• Have strong accounting skills including budgeting, forecasting and other reporting
• Possess great communication skills at all levels
• Have good excel skills and experience of using finance systems to an intermediate level such as designing reports
• Be able to adapt to a changing environment

Experience in finance business partnering within a complex organisation is desirable, but we are open to development if you possess the soft skills required for the role.

Further information

For an informal discussion, please contact Sam Gardiner, Lead Accountant (Academic Areas) at spg51@bath.ac.uk. 

Interviews are expected to take place in-person, on the 17th and/or 18th July. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

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