Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting

About the role

The Accounting and Financial Management Department at Northumbria University is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate to join as Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting. We aim to ensure that our students are offered an outstanding student experience, and the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a commitment to ensuring that they are able to contribute to this aspiration in a very practical, flexible, and dynamic way.

The successful candidate will contribute to delivering the Faculty’s strategic priorities, which include the integration of excellent teaching, high quality research, and the provision of leadership on a range of diverse portfolios within an academic context. In addition, the role holder will be responsible for the design, development, and delivery of curriculum content within undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of the department.

We are interested in hearing from candidates from all areas of finance, particularly from those who have experience in teaching investments, financial management, banking, fintech including blockchain and cryptocurrency, financial accounting and related subjects at all levels of study and with an active research agenda and track record of publications, as well as possess evidence of previous research funding success.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Dr Rajesh Tharyan, Head of the Finance Subject group (rajesh.tharyan@northumbria.ac.uk); or Professor Ignazio Cabras, Head of Department (ignazio.cabras@northumbria.ac.uk).

This post is advertised across our Assistant Professor person specification.

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance.

This opportunity is open to applications from internal candidates who do not hold a current substantive academic role at Northumbria. Current academic colleagues with a substantive role are encouraged to consider options to progress via the Academic Development Review process.

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV. Please ensure your CV includes research / education statements, and grants and publications list highlighting your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of four. For your most recent grants please include the grant title, funder reference, funder, amount, and your role. In addition, you are asked to provide copies of the top two research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio).

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