Assistant Management Accountant in Plymouth

Assistant Management Accountant

Company: Plymouth Marjon University

Salary: from £31,236 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Plymouth, PL6 8BH

Working pattern: Hybrid - 2 days remote

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 21 Oct 2026

Closing date: 8 Nov 2026

Summary

We are recruiting a finance professional to join our collaborative finance team, supporting the Management Accountant in providing timely and accurate reporting across the University.

We need someone highly organised and confident, with a passion for detail and accuracy, advanced excel skills and a genuine interest in using data and systems to improve how things are done. You will, at times, act as a link between Finance and our academic and professional services departments, so excellent communication skills and a helpful, constructive approach are essential.

This role directly supports Marjon University's mission by giving budget holders reliable financial information to support effective decision making. Helping the University achieve financial resilience, so we can keep delivering a high-quality experience for students and staff.

It is essential that you have previous finance experience, higher education experience is desirable but not essential. We are interested in recruiting someone who is enthusiastic, positive and able to apply their knowledge to a new organisation.

What you'd be doing

This is a varied role covering the full management accounting cycle. You will help prepare the monthly management accounts, monitoring income and expenditure against budget and explaining key variances. You will support the annual budget process across income, expenditure and capital, and work with colleagues across the University to make sure information is captured accurately at source.

A key part of the role is preparing our academic partnership reconciliations, which means extracting data, agreeing programmes, student numbers and fees with partners, and making sure invoices and payments are correct.

You will also help maintain our finance (Open Accounts) and procurement (eBIS) system hierarchies, ensuring they align with our organisational structure. Alongside this, you will support regulatory returns and ad hoc analysis and play an active part in developing our systems and processes. You must be able and willing to get things done.

Over time, there will be opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills and get involved in programme costings, business cases and longer-term planning.

Where you'll work

In this role, you will be based in the Finance team, on our green campus in the north of Plymouth. We are a small, close-knit team who work together closely to deliver an outstanding service to our colleagues from all business areas.

Our current hybrid working policy means you can work from home or on campus, but you will be required to maintain strong campus links and will work onsite at least 2 days per week, ideally 3.

Essential requirements

You will be AAT Level 4 qualified or part qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW), with the ambition to become fully qualified.

• Building Relationships: You will spend your time liaising with various stakeholders both internally and externally, so you need to be personable, professional and enjoy building working relationships.




• Solving problems: Whether it's tracking down a reconciling difference, getting to the bottom of a budget variance or finding a better way to do a manual process, you'll enjoy investigating issues and working out practical solutions.




• A varied workload: No two days are the same, with month-end reporting, budget timetables, partnership reconciliations and ad hoc requests from across the University. You'll enjoy prioritising competing demands, working to deadlines and making sure everything is delivered accurately and on time.




• Working to your values: we care about how people behave as well as what they achieve.

Supporting our people

At Marjon, we are deeply committed to supporting every member of our staff. Our values sit at the heart of everything we do, and we hope you will take pride in becoming part of our community.

We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, reflecting our strong commitment to inclusion. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact peopleteam@marjon.ac.uk and a member of the finance team will get back to you as soon as possible.

If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process, please contact the People Team on peopleteam@marjon.ac.uk.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

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About Disability Confident: Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.

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