Financial Accountant

University of the Arts London (UAL) is seeking a skilled and proactive Financial Accountant to join our high-performing team and help deliver exceptional financial services across our vibrant and diverse university community.

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a pivotal role in the financial operations of one of the world’s leading institutions for art, design, fashion, and communication. As a Financial Accountant, you will be central to the integrity of UAL’s financial reporting - overseeing key balance sheet control accounts, managing monthly payroll journals, and ensuring timely and accurate reconciliation of payroll-related balances. 

Working across month-end, quarter-end, and year-end processes, you’ll collaborate with colleagues across departments to provide insightful, accurate financial information to internal and external stakeholders. You’ll also support the University’s trading subsidiaries — such as UAL Arts Temps Ltd. 

This is a varied and hands-on role where your technical expertise will directly support operational excellence, process improvement, and high standards of financial compliance. You will contribute to external audit readiness, assist in budget forecasting, and play an active role in risk management and internal audit support.

With scope to influence and improve financial processes, and to work across diverse areas including capital, endowment, and payroll reconciliations, this role offers a unique opportunity to grow your professional impact in a creative, world-class university environment. 

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We're looking for someone who is either fully qualified or currently working towards a CCAB-recognised professional accounting qualification, with a proven track record of managing large data sets and reconciling complex financial records.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

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Closing date: 18^th August 2025, 23:55.

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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