Statutory Accountant

UCL AI Centre; London; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

UCL's AI Centre is seeking a Statutory Accountant to join their financial accounts team in London. The role involves preparing financial statements, ensuring compliance with regulations, and working closely with auditors. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant to develop their skills in a renowned academic institution, with generous benefits including extensive holiday leave and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, 6 closure days)

Defined benefit pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

On-site nursery

On-site gym

Qualifications

• Solid experience in financial accounting.
• Good understanding of accounting standards (FRS 102 and/or IFRS).
• Experience working with auditors.

Responsibilities

• Prepare month-end journals and work on year-end financial statements.
• Support the audit process and ensure compliance with accounting standards.
• Complete statutory and regulatory returns.

Skills

Attention to detail

Financial operations

Communication

Education

Qualified or near-qualified accountant

Job description

Ref Number B28-00057 Professional Expertise Professional Services Leadership Department Finance, Commercial and Estates (B28) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £43,374 £51,860 Contract Type Permanent Working Type Hybrid Available for Secondment Yes Closing Date 22-Jun-2025

About Us

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 universities in the world, talking on some of the biggest challenges of our time. We foster high-impact, multidisciplinary research to address some of humanity’s biggest questions, and provide research-based education to the next generation.

UCL's Financial Accounting team is pivotal in managing the university’s financial accounts and providing essential financial services and advice across the institution.

About The Role

In the newly created job of Statutory Accountant, you’ll play a key part in UCL’s financial accounts team and ongoing commitment to maintaining accurate financial records.

You’ll prepare month-end journals, work on the year-end financial statements, and support the audit process. You’ll ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulations, maintain financial controls, and complete statutory and regulatory returns.

We think this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your financial accounting skills within a world-renowned university.

A full list of responsibilities can be found on the attached job description.

About You

To do the job of Statutory Accountant, you'll be a qualified or near-qualified accountant (actively studying if part qualified), with solid experience in financial accounting, particularly of working with auditors in an internal capacity or working in an audit firm.

You should be detail-oriented, with a good understanding of accounting standards (FRS 102 and/or IFRS), and a proactive approach to managing financial records. You’ll have strong financial operations experience, including financial controls, reconciliations and assisting with statutory reporting.

You’ll be a good communicator and team player, able to work effectively as part of a team and explain financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders. You’ll be organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines, and have the ‘can-do’ attitude needed to work in a high performing team, and to innovate and problem solve.

Experience in the higher education sector or another large, complex organisation would be advantageous but is not essential. We welcome candidates who are eager to grow their expertise and contribute to UCL’s financial success.

Please review the job description carefully, paying particular attention to the Essential and Desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme:Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance
  
  

Visithttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefitsto find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Available documents

Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.

• download: Statutory Accountant (May25).docx