Management Accounting Assistant

King's College London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university in Greater London is seeking a Management Accounting Assistant to support management accounting tasks within its finance team. This full-time role mandates strong numerical skills, effective communication, and proficiency in financial accounting software. You will assist in various financial tasks, ensuring timely support for decision-making among diverse stakeholders. The position offers a flexible work pattern, combining on-site and remote work as needed, fostering a dynamic work culture.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive and inclusive work culture

Qualifications

• Highly numerate with relevant qualifications.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Experience with financial accounting systems.
• Strong Excel skills including pivot tables.
• Ability to explain financial issues to non-financial staff.
• Experience in management accounting or related field.
• Proficient in handling finance queries from stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to management accounting work within the university.
• Provide financial support to faculty and directorate managers.
• Respond to finance queries in a timely manner.
• Assist with reconciliations, budget movements, and reporting.
• Work closely with Finance Business Partners.

Skills

Numeracy

Communication skills

Excel skills

Financial accounting experience

Management accounting experience

Education

Mathematics qualifications at GCSE and A level or equivalent

AAT Level 3 or equivalent

Tools

Financial accounting software

Excel

Job description

About us:

King's College London is a world-renowned university that delivers exceptional education and world-leading research. We are committed to creating positive and sustainable change in our local and global communities through outstanding education, impactful research and genuine service to society.

This role is based within Finance, specifically the Financial Strategy, Planning and Performance department. The Department is responsible for ensuring that King's is managing its finances appropriately and that financially informed decisions are made.

About the role:

The primary purpose of this role is to contribute to the full range of management accounting work within the university. Working closely with other members of the management accounting community, the role provides useful information to faculty/directorate managers to improve their decision‑making, planning and control.

We are seeking a curious, enthusiastic, and approachable management accounting assistant with excellent oral and written communication skills to join our Finance Business Partnering (Operations) team at King's. You will be working in a diverse, fast‑paced and dynamic environment, using a range of skills to deliver quality financial support to discerning and demanding customers.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate an understanding of accounting concepts and promote the understanding of financial knowledge within directorates in their communication with non‑financial stakeholders. You should have experience of working with a financial accounting system and in exporting data to produce meaningful reports to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. Working closely with Finance Business Partners, you will respond in a timely manner to meet our budget holder needs. This will include answering queries, performing reconciliations, staff approvals, updating the staff forecast tool, processing journals, budget and forecast movements, assisting with general month‑end tasks, creation of new activity codes, assisting with coding changes and restructures and the provision of management accounting information.

The role holder will be based at Lavington Street in Central London and is currently expected to work 2 days per week on‑site with the remainder of time working remotely. As required by the business, the post holder is required to work flexibly with regards to pattern or location.

This is a full time post and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Highly numerate, as evidenced by qualifications in Mathematics at GCSE and A level, or equivalent; or AAT Level 3 or equivalent.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Skills and experience working with a financial accounting package in the provision of financial reports and the ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Strong Excel skills with an ability to extract and manipulate financial information in spreadsheets including pivot tables.
• An ability to communicate general financial issues and accounting terminology to non‑finance staff in language that they can understand.
• Some experience of management accounting gained within a finance department, or evidence of other relevant experience.
• Experience of dealing with a number of finance queries from a wide variety of stakeholders in a timely, methodical manner ensuring a high degree of accuracy.

Desirable criteria

• Proficient Excel user, comfortable with lookups, pivot tables, sumifs.
• Curious, questioning nature, a willingness to challenge assumptions and seek clarity.
• A strong desire to learn and develop, particularly in management accounting and finance systems.
• A proactive approach to problem solving.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our 'How we Recruit' pages. Interviews are due to be held in the third week in January 2026.