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Accountant, Research and Fundraising

Department: Accounts
Contract type: full-time
Closing date: 4 June 2008

Job description
Working with the Research and Fundraising Manager, you'll help with accounting and reporting for all research and fundraising activities at London Business School.

Responsibilities include:

monitoring and reporting on research institutes, centres and programmes on a monthly basis
calculating and processing overheads
monitoring and reporting on fundraising cash and commitments on a monthly basis
calculating and processing investment return
maintaining and reporting on all restricted funds
providing cover for the gift processor role
aiding the coordination of quarterly forecasts and annual budgets.

The School
London Business School is consistently ranked in the top ten business schools in the world. The School is truly diverse, with our students, alumni, clients, faculty and staff coming from over 120 different countries.

The Accounts team provides a full financial service to London Business School and its subsidiary companies. This includes all transaction processing services - invoices, payroll and expenses - and all banking and treasury management services.

We also provide a full management information service and make sure that:

all corporate governance requirements are met - VAT, tax, legal/contractual, audit and HEFCE
appropriate financial and management controls are in place
assets are safeguarded
resources are used efficiently and effectively

The person we're looking for
Part-qualified, or studying towards an accountancy qualification, you'll have significant experience of working in a customer-facing accounts capacity.

An interest in higher education and/or fund-raising activities will be an advantage, as is exposure to the SUN accountancy package.

Personal qualities will include an ability to organise and work to deadline, managing your priorities in a timely and efficient manner. You'll need to work with a cross-section of internal and external clients and so will need to be able to communicate and build and maintain good relations.

Benefits
London Business School offers its staff a wide range of professional development opportunities. Other benefits include:

generous holiday entitlement
season ticket loan
contributory final salary pension scheme
on-site swimming pool, sauna and gym