Job Description

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ACCOUNTING

DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Competition No.

25.10.301

CATEGORY

SALARY

CLOSING DATE

Full-Time Tenure-Track Commensurate with qualifications and experience. New hires will normally be placed within the first 8 steps of the Assistant Professor salary table. A review of applications will begin December 1, 2025 and continue until a suitable candidate is found.

About Us

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MacEwan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton's diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Metis people, MacEwan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, MacEwan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.



Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 20,000 full- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, MacEwan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

Opportunity

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The Department of Accounting and Finance in the School of Business invites applications for at least one (1) entry-level, full-time, tenure-track appointment in Accounting at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2026, subject to final budgetary approval.


Your focus will be to continue your scholarly work in an area of accounting, and teach in an area of accounting, tax, auditing, or information systems.


You will likely have expertise in one of the following areas:

Information systems and data analytics, Advanced financial accounting and accounting standards, Tax, or Auditing.

You likely have evidence of effective teaching of courses at the undergraduate level, and the beginning of a record of scholarly work in the field. Experience in industry, government or not-for-profit organizations is an asset.


You must have, or be close to completion of, a terminal degree in accounting and will demonstrate a primary commitment to undergraduate teaching and an ongoing research program. In addition, you may be certified as a CPA or are willing and able to obtain a Canadian CPA designation in the first three years.


You will submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier (including recent teaching evaluations), statement of research interests, and sample of scholarly work.


Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the Department Chair to provide three (3) letters of reference sent directly from referees.


Only selected candidates will be required to submit official transcripts sent directly from the institutions where you completed your degrees.


Questions about this opportunity may be addressed to Gregory Springate, Department Chair, at springateg@macewan.ca.