Lecturer A/B in Accounting (Teaching Track)

Surrey Business School is a mid-sized business school with over 150 academic staff members from around the globe, and a highly cohesive and collegial atmosphere. The school is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and holds the Advance HE Athena SWAN bronze award. We inspire positive change in business and society, individuals and organisations, locally and globally by blending the rigour of high-quality impactful research with excellent teaching and the strengths of a technology-led university. We are ranked in the top 10 for business and economics in the United Kingdom by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 by subject. Our results in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 place us 19th overall in the UK, 10th in the UK for research outputs and 16th in the UK for research impact.

The School’s strengths are in digital innovation and technological transformation, international trade, leadership and organizational psychology and sustainability. Set in the beautiful countryside of Surrey with the convenience of bustling Guildford on your doorstep and London just 34 minutes away by train, the University of Surrey is an outstanding international University with an enterprising spirit. The school runs a full range of programmes including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA programmes, as well as a PhD programme. The School works closely with a network of business partners and other stakeholders, boasting strong links with many technology-oriented start-ups and established firms in London, and the South-East of England. For further information, please visit the SBS website.

The Finance and Accounting team is a healthy mix of research active and practitioner faculty, the latter bringing a wealth of business and professional experience. We seek to appoint a Lecturer in Accounting (Teaching Track).

For this post, we seek an exceptional, hard-working, and enthusiastic educator. The successful candidate will be innovative and student-focused and will help us enhance our capabilities in the areas of teaching and designing an innovative curriculum in accounting. Related business or professional experience would also be desirable. There will be opportunities for candidates to become active in business engagement and executive education.

At Surrey Business School, the student experience is at the heart of what we do. The successful applicant will demonstrate clear evidence of their ability to teach and design an innovative curriculum in management accounting, financial accounting and business maths. They will be expected to play an active role in leading and developing taught programmes, characterised by contemporary and commercial content that utilises thoughtful approaches to learning and wider student experience. They will have experience of teaching in higher education, professional education or similar settings and/or professional/industry experience. Many of our courses are taught in a collaborative manner, and we value collegiality and team spirit.

Candidates will have a passion for Accounting which will be brought into the classroom. Your passion may be related to research, activities such as consulting or student projects or by teaching methods which inspire students about these topics. Evidence of strong student engagement through teaching should be demonstrated by MEQ scores or comparable evidence where available.

For an informal discussion please contact:

Head of Department, Vicky Milligan (Email: v.milligan@surrey.ac.uk)

Interviews will be held on Friday 4th July.

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