Are you an articulate, confident individual who enjoys working with a variety of stakeholders? Do you have strong experience in managing expenditure, now looking to enter the field of research finance? Keen to secure a role that offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities? If yes, this could be the role for you!
This large, complex educational organisation are currently seeking a Finance Officer (Research) to join their high performing team on a permanent basis. Based in Manchester, this role will be responsible for being the finance subject matter expert for a high-profile portfolio of externally funded projects.
The key duties of this Finance Officer (Research) are as follows:
* Full responsibility for monitoring the financial performance of each individual project once the grants have been awarded.
* Take the lead in the monthly review of spends against budget, investigating and challenging any variances as necessary.
* Hold critical oversight of all things Compliance for your grants, ensuring all spending is in line with contractual requirements.
* Produce project forecasts and reforecasts on a quarterly basis.
* Sole responsibility for submitting expenditure claims.
* Run regular expenditure reports for all projects within your portfolio and produce reports in line with funder timelines.
This is an exceptional opportunity for someone with strong Excel and data manipulation experience ...