Assistant Financial Accountant

Post title: Assistant Financial Accountant

Finance Department

REF: 902

Salary: £42,405 - £49,785 per annum (Grade 5)

Location: Department W, 81 Mile End Road, London

About the Role

We require an enthusiastic Assistant Financial Accountant to play an important role within the friendly Financial Accounting team. The successful candidate will be involved in the preparation of notes to the Financial Statements and will be a key contact liaising with the internal and external auditors. They will be responsible for the University’s capital reporting, including maintaining the asset register and physical verification of assets. They will prepare robust cashflow forecasts, assist with investing surplus funds and be responsible for submission of all authorized payment files (including bacs, foreign payments, urgent payments).

About You:

• You are a qualified accountant or are studying towards your accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent).
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• You have previously prepared notes to the financial statements and have experience preparing complex balance sheet reconciliations.
• You have a thorough understanding of capital accounting requirements.
• You can explain technical accounting concepts to non-finance professionals in a clear and understandable manner.
• You have good interpersonal skills, developing effective working relationships with colleagues and key external contacts.

About the Department

The role is based in the Financial Accounting Team, part of the wider Finance Department of the Professional Services Directorate. The role is based in Whitechapel with the opportunity for hybrid working.

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 including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

This post is offered with the opportunity for hybrid working and is based at Department W in Whitechapel, London. It is a full-time permanent appointment. The starting salary will be Grade 5, in the range of £42,405 - £49,785 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. Please note it is QMUL policy that successful candidates are appointed at the start of the salary range of the advertised grade, with automatic annual progression to the next spine point thereafter, until the top of the grade is reached.

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.

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The closing date for applications is 5th April 2024.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.