Irr Finance and Data Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Grade UE06:
£31,396 to £36,024 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £32,982 to £38,205 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024).

College/School:
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine / Institute for Regeneration and Repair.

Open Ended Contract.

Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.

We are looking for an inquisitive, enthusiastic, and innovative individual to join us in the role of Finance and Data Officer.

The role entails the provision of reliable financial data to facilitate evidence-based strategic planning and decision-making by senior academics and the institute management teams.

This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns.

We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working, however we seek a minimum of 60% on site working.

The Opportunity:

You will provide wide-ranging, professional, effective and efficient administrative support within the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR)

Business team.

The Business Team of 14 individuals, support all the business and finance needs of an institute of almost a thousand people including staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students, tenant organisations and cross campus laboratory facilities.

Our team has two sub teams - A) Grants:
who administer government and charity sponsored research and B)

Transactional:
who provide ordering and invoicing support and supply budgetary monitoring services to non-grant funded activities.

This post will support both sub teams providing advanced spreadsheeting and record keeping solutions.

The post holder will in addition hold their own portfolio of support, prioritising our large atypical research finance portfolio totalling more than £20 million in value sourced from donations, service contract income, consultancy and short project awards (<1yr).

The post will support budgeting for these sources across the three main centres of IRR, namely the Centre for Reproductive Health (CRH), the Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR) and Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM).

Your skills and attributes for success:

A relevant vocational qualification and two years' relevant work experience OR Educated to at least Highers level or equivalent, with significant financial or management accounting experience working in a busy account's office environment (Desirable).
Proven experience of working effectively in a team.
Ability to work independently, to use initiative and prioritise own work.
Exceptional data handling, spreadsheeting and Excel skills with evidenced ability to analyse and interpret financial data.
Ability to pick up and work with new IT systems quickly and efficiently.

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As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme
, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

Click to access our
staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

Further information is available on our
right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

Key notes for applicants
We anticipate that interviews will be held within 2 weeks of the advert closing date. The interview will include an aptitude test using an excel based exercise.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.