Job Description

The post holder 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, good relationship building skills and an ambition to follow a career in finance. Experience of working within a finance department and/or in a grant management environment would be an advantage.
Key accountabilities:

• Manipulating financial data to create timetabled and ad-hoc reports
• Assisting with the statement of expenditure processes relating to funded projects
• Identifying and resolving data quality issues
• Assisting programme teams with the financial aspects of their projects
• Assisting with the research funding payments process
• Assisting with the panel members expenses process
• Ensuring all tasks are completed according to the timetable
• To respond to queries from programme staff, contractors and other stakeholders on financial aspects of applications and funded research
• To contribute to the development and maintenance of robust finance-related policies and SOPs
• Creating and maintaining detailed procedure instructions for processes.
• To maintain a variety of Excel-based tools to support financial systems
• Maintenance of relevant accounting schedules and systems
• To support the Senior Finance Manager
• Any other reasonable tasks required by line management

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• First-class attention to detail
• Ability to establish and maintain strong, productive working relationships, building trust and credibility with internal stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to organize own workload effectively, working to multiple prioritized 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 and able to instil confidence in others
• Positive attitude to change
• Strong sense of responsibility, including excellent time-management, task prioritization and organizational abilities
• Excellent computer skills: fully conversant in MS Office (Excel in particular)
• Highly numerate and strong analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of accounting systems and processes would be beneficial