Financial & Systems Accountant

Richmond American University London is now looking to appoint an experienced, highly motivated to join our small and dedicated Finance & Systems team. Reporting to the Head of Finance, based in our Chiswick Campus.

This post will play a critical role in ensuring a robust financial framework of control is in place across the University. Alongside this, the Financial & Systems Accountant will have full responsibility of month-end close processes including reconciliation of all ledger accounts, ensuring that all cash balances work to achieve the best possible returns for the Group. The role will involve providing advice, recommendations and guidance that are compliant with the Treasury Policy and to include management and reporting on the liquidity of the Group on a regular basis.

The Financial & Systems Accountant is one of two senior roles within the Finance Team, with responsibility to manage a team of four to deliver all aspects of sales invoicing, payments, working capital management, pensions and payroll, and the production of the statutory reporting. The opportunity and challenge for this role is the need to create a sense of team identity and pride, alongside developing process to improve the production of the statutory reporting and returns. This will require excellent stakeholder engagement, a deep knowledge of the University strategic priorities, underpinned with the relevant financial skills and experience to translate this into the appropriate financial control environment.

About Richmond American University London

Richmond American University London is a unique institution, global in outlook and in practice, diverse and cosmopolitan in its culture. A leading private and not-for-profit institution, we are dually accredited in both the United States, by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and registered with the Office for Students in the UK. Our students receive both UK and US degrees, bringing together the best of British and American higher education.

Operating in London since 1972, our mission is to educate and inform future generations by providing them with the knowledge and support to think critically, the freedom to challenge assumptions and the skills to work with others. Our distinctive, multi-disciplinary Liberal Arts degree programmes offer a holistic approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing academic and personal skills to enable our students to make positive contributions through employment, personal development, and public service after graduation.

Following the move to our new state-of-the-art campus in Chiswick Park , West London, we are developing a new strategy that will see the University grow and further diversify its student body, broaden and diversify is academic offer and expand its international partnerships.

Richmond is an equal opportunities employer; a Disclosure and Barring Service check at the Basic level is required for this position. To review the full JD, please visit: https://www.richmond.ac.uk/about-richmond/work-for-us/

To apply for this role, please email your CV and supporting statement, together with details of three recent work-related references via the 'Apply' button above.

Please note that while submitted applications will be acknowledged, we are unable to provide individual feedback to applicants.