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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an Accountant to join the Finance department, a supportive environment where you will understand how your work contributes to the strategic goals of the service and of the University as a whole.
Your Main Duties And Responsibilities Will Include
- Financial accounts responsibilities will include the Fixed Assets Register, production of the University’s Corporation Tax and VAT returns, cash forecasting and completion of external returns.
- Management accounts queries will include coordination of the annual budget, production of the monthly management accounts, making accruals and prepayments and responding to accounting queries.
- Authoritative point of contact for external stakeholders as well as senior administration managers, PVCs and Directors internally in relation to their role.
As part of the University’s ongoing commitment to redeployment, please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any stage of the recruitment process if a suitable redeployee is identified.
For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Christina Fitzpatrick, Deputy Director of Finance at Christina.Fitzpatrick@edgehill.ac.uk
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About You
As an Accountant, you will have:
- Experience working in a finance setting at an equivalent level
- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent technical capability.
- Ability to develop and enhance computerised management systems, including advanced Excel to create, update and manage workbooks and to analyse and report on data
- Ability to organise own personal workload and work effectively under pressure, prioritising whilst meeting multiple and sometimes conflicting deadlines
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to produce and articulate, clear and concise reports, policy and business documents
- Excellent and demonstrable customer service skills
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 38 days annual leave per annum, (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 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%
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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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