Qualification Content Lead - Management Accounting and Performance Management

Are you passionate about, and a technical subject-matter-expert in, Management Accounting and Performance Management? Do you have the experience to design and develop high-quality syllabus content and assessments that meet global industry standards? Are you a fully qualified accountant? Are you looking for a role where you have significant impact, and play a key part in ensuring qualifications remain innovative, relevant, and future-ready? Would you relish the opportunity to also lead the development and technical content of interactive learning modules and learning support products aimed at meeting the need of learners and education providers?

Our client is the world’s most forward-thinking professional accountancy body with a thriving global community of 252,500 members and 526,000 future members across 180 countries. They are committed to innovation, excellence, and upholding the highest professional and ethical values.

This is a Qualification Content Lead (Management Accounting and Performance Management) position on an 18 months fixed term contract, due to the growing demand for additional team capacity resulting from increased project work.

The role involves leading the development of both syllabus and assessment and ensuring the external examining team delivers innovative, relevant, and rigorous syllabuses and assessments for future members and any additional qualifications required by existing members globally. As the QCL for Management Accounting and Performance Management, your technical expertise will help shape the future of professional qualifications, ensuring our client continues to develop future-ready finance professionals.

Key facts:

• Full-time, fixed term contract – 18 months
• Starting salary range of up to £70,000 (outside London) - £75,000 p.a. (London)
• Our client operates a 'digital first' approach. This role can be primarily home based (anywhere in the UK), with occasional travel to either London or Glasgow offices.
• Benefits Package includes up to 9% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, flexi time and flexi leave.

Key Responsibilities of the role include:

• Act as the subject matter expert in Management Accounting and Performance Management, developing innovative syllabus content and learning outcomes.
• Lead the assessment process, ensuring exams are of the highest quality, aligned with learning objectives, and meet regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the development of interactive learning modules and other resources to support learners and education providers.
• Keep syllabus content up to date with industry trends, legislative changes, and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including examiners and education providers, to maintain qualification excellence.
• Ensure all materials, exams, and assessments are 100% error-free, high-quality, and delivered on time.
• Lead marking standardisation meetings, providing expert guidance on exam content and evaluation criteria.
• Represent our client at external meetings, conferences, and examiner standardisation events.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• A professional qualification in Accounting
• Excellent technical, and subject matter, expertise in Management Accounting and Performance Management
• Experience in setting a syllabus and developing assessments
• Experience in developing, and technical content, for learning products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects, and deliver reliably to strict deadlines
• Strong relationship-building skills to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong MS office skills – especially Word and Excel

Interested? For a confidential conversation with FJWilson Talent before applying, please contact Fiona Wilson on 0203 195 3600, or email us at resourcingteam@fjwilson.com.

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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