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    Senior Research Finance Officer - Manchester, United Kingdom - The University of Manchester

    The University of Manchester
    The University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Permanent
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    The Research Finance team at The University of Manchester sits within the Directorate of Finance and is responsible for managing annual research income of around £257 million from a portfolio of 2,500 live research grants and contracts across the three University Faculties.

    Supervising a small team, you will work as part of a group of colleagues to assist the delivery of services that maximise our ability to financially plan, manage and monitor research grants and contracts and deliver a high-quality research support service to academic and other service users. You will report to the Research Finance Manager and will support a culture of excellent service provision and support colleagues with continuous improvement working flexibly across organisational boundaries.
    As a Senior Research Finance Officer, you will be a self-starter who is able to form strong working relationships with other members of the RS team, other Finance colleagues and with academics. Your key deliverables include:

    • Ensuring accurate financial reporting and performance analysis of your area of responsibility
    • Line Management of a Team of Research Finance Officers and Research Finance Assistants including training, development and support.
    • Accountability for regular, accurate and appropriate processing activities in your area of responsibility
    • Provide excellent Business Partnering Services to Academics including regular and high quality Project reviews, ensuring activities are compliant with Funder Terms & Conditions
    • Ensuring all Final Claims are submitted in line with the Funders Terms and Conditions and in a timely manner.
    • Identifying and resolving financial risk including under or overspends versus the awarded research budget
    • To support Senior Management in the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes for research activity in the Faculty.

    Please see the job description for more details on the main duties of the role and the essential criteria we are looking for in a candidate. In order to shortlist for the post we need to see information about how you meet the essential and (if relevant) the desirable criteria. A CV is not always sufficient to show this. We suggest that you use the personal statement section of the job application to give us a brief explanation of how you feel you meet the criteria. Examples could be taken from your current or previous jobs, any voluntary work you have undertaken or any experiences gained from study.

    Please note, under the new immigration rules this role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route of the Points Based System. Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK in order to be eligible to take up the post.

    The University will actively foster a culture of inclusion and diversity and will seek to achieve true equality of opportunity for all members of its community.

    What you will get in return:

    • Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
    • Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
    • Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
    • Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
    • Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

    As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

    Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

    Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

    Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

    Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to Any CV's submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

    Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

    Name: Malcolm Spencer

    Email:

    General enquiries:

    Email:

    Technical support:

    This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

    Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.


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