Job Description

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom (Hybrid)



JOB INFO


Job Identification
810
Job Category
Professional
Posting Date
07/29/2025, 09:31 AM
Apply Before
08/24/2025, 05:59 PM
Job Schedule
Full time
Job Shift
Standard
Locations
Finance
(Hybrid)

The full-time starting salary is normally 44,131.00 per annum, with progression available in post to 51,182.00 per annum.

Grade: G

Full-Time, Permanent role

About Birmingham City University

For almost two centuries, Birmingham City University has shaped thousands of lives. We have helped redefine a city, influenced the region, and impacted further afield. From our roots as the Birmingham Government School of Design, we have forged a formidable history.

The Role: Reporting Accountant

As Reporting Accountant, you will be responsible for the preparation and submission of key statutory returns, including the Annual Financial Return (AFR) and TRAC, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and meeting all deadlines. You will provide supporting analysis to the University Executive Team and relevant committees, ensuring returns are appropriately reviewed and approved. A key focus will be on improving efficiency by identifying automation opportunities and streamlining processes. You'll also manage balance sheet and cash flow forecasting, integrate these with budget and management accounts, and maintain the tuition fee income forecasting model. The role involves maintaining accurate system hierarchies, producing reconciliations between forecast and actual tuition and grant income, and working closely with stakeholders across the University to optimise reporting. You'll support governance by scheduling and coordinating TRAC Oversight Group meetings, stay up to date with technical guidance, and contribute to continuous improvement. The position also includes deputising for the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis as needed.

Employment history and qualifications

Information relating to applicants' career history and their qualifications will be drawn from their ERP record, and specifically information entered under the 'Skills and Qualifications' tab of the 'Career and Performance' section.



You are strongly encouraged and advised to update these sections of your ERP record with any and all information that you would like to appear on your application. It is vitally important that you update your record to include your qualifications if those qualifications are essential criteria for the responsibility you wish to apply for.



Please be aware that apart from the Previous Employment and Degrees & Qualifications sections, all other details on your talent profile will be visible to your line manager.



When completing your profile, should you be unable to locate a specific professional body or certification that you would like to include on your profile please email: Learning.OD@bcu.ac.uk and they will add this as soon as possible.



For further guidance on updating your Talent Profile, please refer to the user guide: Building Your Talent Profile in ERP

Birmingham City University is deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusivity at all levels in the organisation, and to addressing underrepresentation in our workforce to ensure we are truly representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds and communities for this role, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic applicants.

The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

ABOUT US


At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK's second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.



Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.