My client is one of the world's leading public health universities. Their mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.
They are currently recruiting for a Research Finance Manager, which is the key business partner for the faculties on post award issues. Day to day they lead a team in delivery of an efficient, customer-focused service covering all aspects of post-award financial management across a complex portfolio of projects. This includes: preparation of funder financial reports, monitoring income from funders, raising supplier invoices, approving high-value transactions, and providing guidance on funder terms and conditions.
The Research Finance Manager acts as the senior escalation point for issues arising on projects within their portfolio, and as signatory/approver for large transactions and funder reporting. They are accountable for quality assurance and compliance across their portfolio. They are also responsible for ensuring workload is equitably distributed across the team.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
The Research Finance Manager will be responsible for overseeing delivery of the day-to-day financial management of the university's research portfolio.
1. Set and communicate the standards for the service delivered by research finance staff, reviewing service levels and addressing and managing demand.
2. Senior escalation point for complex post-award queries and issues, understanding the limitations of funding and advising on how to manage projects in compliance with applicable regulations.
3. Understand and interpret complex contract documentation and funder terms and conditions, and be able to communicate this information to non-specialists including Principal Investigators, project administrators and collaborators.
4. Accountability for ensuring that research expenditure is in line with funders' terms and conditions, acting swiftly when non-compliance is identified to avoid financial risk to the university.
5. Ensure proactive management of the research portfolio by the team to prevent financial implications such as overspends or ineligible spend.
Experience:
1. Substantial experience of financial management of research projects, ideally in a higher education research environment.
2. Experience of introducing policies, procedures, processes and systems effectively, and managing change.
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