Lecturer in Finance
Job Description
Surrey Business School is a leading business school with over 140 academic staff members from around the globe, and a highly cohesive and collegial atmosphere. The School is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and holds the Advance HE Athena SWAN bronze award. We inspire positive change in business and society, individuals and organisations, locally and globally by blending the rigour of high-quality impactful research with excellent teaching and the strengths of a technology-led university. We are ranked in the top 10 for business and economics in the United Kingdom by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 by subject. Our results in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 place us 19th overall in the UK, 10th in the UK for research outputs and 16th in the UK for research impact.
The School’s strengths are particularly in digital innovation and technological transformation, international business, leadership and organizational psychology, and business analytics. Set in the beautiful countryside of Surrey with the convenience of bustling Guildford on your doorstep and London just 34 minutes away by train, the University of Surrey is an outstanding international University with an enterprising spirit. The School runs a full range of programmes including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA programmes, as well as a PhD programme. The School works closely with a network of business partners and other stakeholders, boasting strong links with many technology-oriented start-ups and established firms in London, and the South-East of England. For further information, please visit the SBS website.
The Finance and Accounting discipline has core research strengths in corporate finance, fintech and banking. It includes a healthy mix of research active and practitioner faculty, the latter bringing a wealth of business and professional experience. The discipline area has grown strongly in recent years, and will continue to do so in future. We seek to appoint a Lecturer in Finance.
The ideal candidate must be able to demonstrate a clear individual research agenda leading to publications in top international journals. The appointee will teach in the Surrey Business School/ Finance and Accounting discipline area at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in both his/her specialist areas in addition to general contribution with the Discipline programmes.
We would also attach additional weights to experience in bidding for external funding in the last three years and/or engagement in funded activity such as executive education, consultancy and/or business engagement.
Conditions and compensation will be at internationally competitive standards and be commensurate with the appointee’s experience and expertise.
For an informal discussion please contact the Head of Discipline, Vicky Milligan (Email: v.milligan@surrey.ac.uk)
How to apply
Please apply on the University website with a CV and cover letter addressing the essential/desirable criteria.
Interviews to be held Monday 27th January
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