LGC Group
Location
Twickenham, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
ABOUT LGC GRANT MANAGEMENT GROUP
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). We work in partnership with the NHS, universities, local government, other research funders, patients, and the public. The NIHR funds, enables, and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth.
To support the Finance Team with accounting and reporting for GMG operational finances and DHSC award finances. The postholder will assist in a wide range of areas of finance from preparing reports and processing transactions to assisting answering queries from diverse sources and maintaining process documentation.
Candidates must have excellent attention to detail and an ambition to follow a career in finance. The role is heavily weighted toward financial planning & analysis in a project and contract context. Great communication skills and ease with business partnering is therefore highly desirable. Experience of working within a finance department and/or in a grant management environment would be an advantage.
Team management
● Supporting the Senior Finance Manager in the day-to-day management of the funding portfolio, including supervising four staff with specific aspects of their work and providing training
● Setting, communicating and monitoring goals that are realistic but challenging, through formal annual performance cycles and regular one-to-ones
● Well-developed mentoring or coaching skills including offering technical support and tailored feedback to encourage growth of junior team members
● A champion of great data quality and financial accuracy with regular monitoring and follow-up; maintaining high standards through decisive action
● Strong emotional intelligence and empathy with a focus on uniting and collaborating with the wider team
Funding application management
● Sole responsibility for a specific budget area(s) in the overall finance portfolio
● Representing the Finance team to specific programme teams, including attending their team meetings, ensuring there is good 2-way communication and ensuring their needs are met
● Assessing funding applications against pre-defined eligibility criteria and supporting finance contract negotiations
● Analysing financial data to create timetabled and ad-hoc reports
● Finance contract monitoring, including payment profiling, maintaining schedules in a timely manner, and resolution of data quality issues
● Timely and reliable response to queries from programme staff, contractors, customers and other stakeholders on financial aspects of applications and funded research
● Effective business partnering to obtain relevant information for forecasting purposes
● Assisting research funding and committee expense payment processes as required
● Maintenance of Excel-based tools, relevant accounting schedules and systems
● Opportunities to support a varied range of internal finance processes, projects and continuous improvement activities
● Ad-hoc support to finance management and any other reasonable tasks required by line management
Behaviours and Competencies Required
● First-class attention to detail
● Ability to establish and maintain strong, productive working relationships, building trust and credibility with internal stakeholders at all levels. Confident and diplomatic communication.
● Ability to delegate appropriately and effectively
● Ability to organise own workload effectively, working to multiple prioritised tasks, targets and deadlines
● Ability to work flexibly, proactively and independently, showing initiative in tackling allocated tasks
● Ability to plan for changing volumes of work as well as changing business needs, anticipating the requirement for support from the business in critical periods
● Self-confident, taking ownership, and able to instill confidence in others
● Positive attitude to change
● Strong sense of responsibility, including excellent time-management, task prioritisation and organisational abilities
● Excellent computer skills. Fully conversant in MS Office with advanced Excel skills
● Highly numerate and strong analytical skills
● Strong written and verbal communication skills
● Experience of accounting systems and processes would be beneficial
Why work for us?
Join our team and you’ll be working with an exceptional organisation who manage high quality health and care research for the benefit of patients and the public. NIHR is one of the UK’s largest funder of health and care research.
Salary & Benefits
NB : We offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, flexible working arrangements. This is an office-based, hybrid role with an expectation for all employees to attend our offices up to 4 days per week in the training period, and 1 day per week thereafter. Attendance requirements may increase subject to team requirements.
Applications
If you are interested in working with us and feel you have the appropriate background and skills, please apply with your CV, with the cover letter attached in the same document , explaining what you feel you could bring to the company, outlining your suitability for the role.
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