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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.
Job Description
The role performs a critical function in the finance team, leading the month-end, budgeting and forecasting cycles for the Grant Management Group in LGC. This an exciting time to join the finance team as the organisation undergoes a period of growth, change and diversification. Previous experience of working in a service-based business, with public sector clients, or with open-book accounting contracts would be an advantage.
Month-end Reporting
- Overall responsibility for the Grant Management Group month-end reporting cycle
- Becoming the finance team’s Subject Matter Expert for IFS (LGC’s ERP system)
- Main point of contact with Group Accounting teams and audit
- Review of revenue and operating expense postings
- Review of monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Proactively identifying and resolving accounting issues
- Posting and oversight of more complex accounting transactions including review of payroll journals
- Supporting and guiding more junior team members in the matrix organisation
- Leading the provision of information for year-end audit processes and clearing audit queries
- Compliance with Group financial timetables and timely financial reporting
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Overall responsibility for the Grant Management Group budgeting and forecasting cycle
- Supporting the strategic planning cycle of the business
- Leading cost centre reviews with budget holders on a monthly basis
- Proactively tracking staff changes and recruitment and collaboration with HR
- Regularly managing financial information such as the creation of new cost centres and identifying errors in cost centre allocations
- Good business partnering: providing an appropriate mix of support and challenge to senior management
- Providing financial information for input into processes such as the annual insurance renewal
Commercial, Contractual and Performance Monitoring
- Preparation of schedules to support KPI reporting to customers
- Analysis to support commercial bids and ad-hoc requests from customers
Qualifications
- Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Advanced to expert-level Excel (including pivots, look-up functions, IF functions, and other logical functions)
- Good technical knowledge of revenue, cost and balance sheet accounting including accruals and deferrals
- Good knowledge of accounting systems
- High attention to detail with good organisational skills
- Strong communication skills across the organisational hierarchy, both verbally and in written format
Additional Information
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
- £45,700+ PA
- Bonus - subject to company performance
- 25 days annual leave, plus public holidays (UK)
- Enhanced contributory pension scheme
- Life Insurance
- Benenden Healthcare
- Season Ticket Loan
- Laptop, IT equipment and remote IT support
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.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age, disability, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. Short listing, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, or trade union membership.
