Accounting Technician

Salary

Starting from £31,236, rising to £37,694

Finance & Procurement

Full-Time, Fixed-Term

Sunday 08 March 2026

We have an exciting opportunity in the Management Accounts team for someone with strong accounting skills and attention to detail to support a variety of stakeholders with their budgeting and reporting needs.

You will work closely with the Professional Services Accountant, providing Business Partnering and Management Accounting support to a range of Professional Service Departments, including the production of monthly and quarterly management accounting information. You will also support the Costing and Research Accountants with creating and maintaining research project codes and producing detailed analysis to support the reporting and forecasting of research income and costs, as well as ad hoc costings for projects and programmes.

It is essential that you are at least AAT qualified with experience of working in large/complex organisations, providing a quality customer-facing service to a variety of users. You should have strong technical knowledge and skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and be able to work on your own initiative, but also contribute positively to team goals.

We are looking for a qualified accounting technician (or part-qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with experience of delivering Management Accounting information in a large organisation and with excellent written and oral communication skills.

• The ability to communicate complex financial concepts to a non-financial audience, as well as to work independently within parameters specified by managers and senior colleagues.
• Good interpersonal skills, including motivational and team-building skills.

Experience of working with financial and information systems in the HE sector, alongside excellent numeracy and advanced IT skills (Excel and Business Objects) and the ability to develop networks, prioritise tasks and solve problems would be beneficial.

This is a full-time role (36.5 hours per week) for a fixed-term period of 12 months.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Mark Beattie, Head of Financial Insights and Business Partnering or Stephanie Court, Director of Management Accounts.

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us, and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days to enjoy a positive work-life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities, including Apprenticeships, Linked In Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits on our website and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work, as well as following us on X and Linked In.

We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship, and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.

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