(Senior) Lecturer in Financial Reporting

About the Role

Queen Mary University of London is looking for an experienced financial reporting professional at either the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level to enhance the integration of industry practice within its Department of Accounting & Financial Management. The postholder will deliver high‑quality, practice‑informed teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, organise and lead relevant modules, and support programmes that offer ICAEW/ACCA/CIMA professional‑level exemptions. The role involves developing curriculum content, maintaining strong links with professional bodies, and contributing to industry engagement, outreach and public‑facing activities. It will play a central part in preparing students for careers in accounting, finance and corporate roles.

About You

You will have a PhD in Accounting or equivalent professional qualification or experience, alongside membership of a recognised accounting body such as ICAEW. You will bring extensive, up‑to‑date technical knowledge of financial reporting and experience of teaching relevant modules at undergraduate or postgraduate level. You can design, deliver and assess high‑quality professional‑level teaching, including modules aligned to ICAEW/ACCA/CIMA exemptions. You demonstrate strong communication skills, the ability to support students effectively, and an awareness of emerging developments in the profession. You can build productive relationships, influence professional stakeholders, and contribute to a national professional profile in financial reporting practice.

About the School

The School of Business & Management has around 130 academic staff across five departments: Accounting & Financial Management, Business & Society, Marketing, People & Organisations, and Business Analytics & Applied Economics. The School is known for its collegial culture, commitment to social justice and inclusion, and its focus on research that addresses real-world challenges.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Please upload your CV ONLY with your application. Please also make clear in your application if you are applying for this role at Lecturer OR Senior Lecturer level.

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