Senior Accountant

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Accountant to join the Finance Accounts Team, you will be a key member and will contribute to an award-winning service provision that continues to enable the delivery of excellent financial performance within a strong controlled environment.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be both financial and management accounts activities including:

Financial Accounts – Fixed assets register, production of the University corporation Tax, VAT returns, cash forecasting and completion of external returns.

Management accounts – coordination of the annual budget, production of the monthly management accounts, accruals and prepayments and responding to accounting queries.

You will also be the authoritative point of contact for external stakeholders, as well as senior administration managers, PVCs and Directors internally in relation to their role.

You will join a supportive working environment and be able to gain a clear understanding of how your work contributes to strategic objectives of the service and of the University as a whole.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Jaime French, Financial Accountant at Jaime.French@edgehill.ac.uk.

About You

As Senior Accountant you will have:

• Experience working in a busy accounting environment
• Knowledge of financial management procedures and controls
• Experience in developing, enhancing and analysing computerised management systems
• Experience of data manipulation and utilising management information
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office Systems
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage own workload and work effectively under pressure to meet business needs/deadlines
• Demonstrable strategic solution focused approach to problem solving

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & Benefits

• A minimum of 39 days annual leave per annum, pro rata (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
• Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and as health & wellbeing resources
• A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8%

About Us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before. 

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world. 

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885, Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

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