Job Description
Job Title: Management Accountant
The full-time starting salary is normally £44,131.00 per annum, with progression available in post to £51,182.00 per annum.
Grade: G
Full-Time, Permanent role
About Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University is a large and diverse learning community with over 30,000 students from around 100 countries. We are passionate about providing our learners with a transformational journey, enabled by an exceptional supportive academic community, state-of-the-art facilities and focus on practical skills and professional relevance to support their future employability. We are also committed to world-class research, to advance knowledge and practice, to address real-world problems and fuel innovations outside of the university.
Preparation and delivery of the University's monthly Management Accounts. Responsibility for the budget and five-year forecast. Analysing financial data and generating detailed reports that include stats, visual diagrams and trend analysis.
This role plays a vital part in delivering high-quality financial reporting and strategic analysis at Birmingham City University. You will lead the month-end close process, prepare detailed monthly management accounts for the University Executive Team, and support the annual audit. The role is also responsible for producing the University's annual budget and five-year forecast, maintaining the long-term financial model, and reporting on income and expenditure variances. You'll collaborate closely with Finance Business Partners, HR, and Payroll teams to ensure accurate reporting on staffing, payroll, and contingency funding. Strong stakeholder relationships and the ability to identify and drive continuous improvement are essential. You'll also support reporting on financial risks and opportunities and deputise for the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis when required.
We offer a generous pension and annual leave provision (40 days including statutory holidays), family-friendly policies and state-of-the-art campus facilities. We also operate a hybrid working model that allows staff to combine on-site and remote working where appropriate, dependent on work duties.
Informal queries in relation to this opportunity are very welcome, and should be directed to Jonathan Goringe, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis at Jonathan.Goringe@bcu.ac.uk.
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The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.
Birmingham City University is deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusivity at all levels in the organisation, and to addressing underrepresentation in our workforce to ensure we are truly representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds and communities for this role, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic applicants.
The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.
The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.
About Us
At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK's second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.
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