Career Opportunities at Queen's

Queen's Business School (QBS) at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) is currently seeking to appoint one or more exceptional candidates to the post of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Finance/Financial Analytics. Successful candidates will be based in India at QUB’s GIFT City Campus and will have the opportunity to shape and strengthen the future direction of QBS from both a research and teaching perspective. Our supportive research environment enables attendance at international conferences, facilitates the pursuit of high-quality publications and fosters meaningful engagement with non-academic stakeholders. The appointed candidates will get the opportunity to interact and work with colleagues whose research is internationally renowned for excellence and societal impact.

About the person:

Essential Criteria:

• A completed PhD (or very close to completion for Lecturer) in Finance/Financial Analytics or cognate disciplines.
• An established programme of research activity and dissemination of original, high-quality research in Finance/Financial Analytics in line with accepted norms for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer.
• A sustained track record of high-quality peer reviewed Finance/Financial Analytics publications as appropriate to norms for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer.
• Ability to develop and lead a major programme of individual or collaborative research in Finance/Financial Analytics research.
• Ability to contribute to successful, sustained postgraduate student supervision as primary supervisor, normally at PhD level.

For Lecturer

• Evidence of the ability and willingness to teach modules at university level in one or more of the following areas: Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Financial Data Analytics, Trading, Banking, Financial Modelling, Derivatives, International Finance, FinTech.
• Ability and willingness to deliver excellent classroom and online teaching.
• A willingness to provide support and guidance to students, including pastoral support.

For Senior Lecturer:

• Evidence of significant experience of teaching and assessing modules at university level in one or more of the following areas: Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Financial Data Analytics, Trading, Banking, Financial Modelling, Derivatives, International Finance.
• Demonstrable excellence in classroom teaching and online delivery of teaching.
• A record of providing support and guidance to students, including pastoral support.
• Evidence of administrative and academic leadership activities as appropriate to norms for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer.
• Ability and willingness to contribute to the strategic and operational management of Queen’s Business School.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport.

Candidate Information