Project Support Officer (Finance)

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Project Support Officer for our client a large local government based in Bristol.

The successful candidate will support the current Retrofit Team. The post holder will co-ordinate the financial processes of the Energy Hub’s housing retrofit Projects, alongside the associated governance, communication and reporting requirements.

This is a 3 month starting contract with the possibility for extensions. Hybrid working.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Initiating Projects outlining a business’s project financial objectives clearly, including preferred payment type and payment schedule.
• Taking part in project meetings and suggesting adjustments.
• Setting and adhering to a budget that maintains objectives and criteria of the Grant Funding, validating Grant claims and processing grant claims and invoices.
• Consistently monitoring the costs, progress, and quality of a project.
• Organising all project-related financial paperwork.
• Monitoring and reviewing project progress, and assisting to producing performance management and business analysis reports.
• Supporting grant funding applications and tendering.
• Evaluating projects and reporting on financial outcomes.
• Ensuring all relevant financial and monitoring information for each project is accurate and that documentation is stored correctly.
• Doing periodic reconciliation of project budget against actual invoices and managing final project reconciliation requirements.
• Ensure grant payment requests are correct before uploading to the accounts payable system.

Personal Requirements:

• Experience gained in a similar project admin / support / project management officer (PMO)/finance role.
• Have or be working towards a recognised finance/accountancy qualification or be qualified by experience.
• Experience in Financial/ transactional accounting.
• Familiarity with grant schemes.
• Knowledge of project monitoring and reporting processes.
• Confident with financial processes and project financial processes.
• Knowledge of housing energy efficiency data and policies (Desirable).
• Experience gained in social housing, council authority, government body (Desirable).

Working Hours: 08:30am - 17:00pm, Monday - Friday

Pay: £19.92 p/h

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.

Key Words: Project Support, Grants, Energy Efficiency,