Assistant Manager - London, United Kingdom - Prospect Us

Prospect Us

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Prospectus is excited to be supporting our client, a leading London University, who are looking to recruit a full-time permanent Assistant Manager (Research Finance) This will be a hybrid working, of a minimum of two days per week onsite (South East London)and the remainder remote working.

One of the days required will be Wednesday, and the other day will be flexible.

As the Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the financial management of the College's externally funded research grants.

You will provide guidance, support and training to a team of Research Grant Officers administering live awards ona day-to-day basis, and will have responsibility for a small portfolio of EC-funded grants.

This post will also lead on research finance processes such as month-end, year-end and audits and will furthermore support the manager in the development and implementationof improved systems and processes to help enhance the capacity of the university to secure and manage research and knowledge exchange income.

To be successful, you will have previous experience of research finance management, ideally from within a higher education setting. You will have a firm understanding of UK and EU research funding landscape and funders' requirements.

The ability to workindependently and proactively, you will have the confidence to deal with a wide variety of people, prioritise conflicting deadlines and comprehend complex situations quickly.

Excellent numeracy skills and solid working knowledge of Excel will be required.