Contract Officer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Business Support Business Finance (BSBF)

Business Support Business Finance (BSBF)

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Manchester

Company
Business Support Business Finance (BSBF)

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £30,000 perannum

Closing Date
12/11/2023

Ref No
3819

The Growth Company's (GC) Business Growth Hub (BGH) team have an exciting new opportunity for a Contract Officer who will develop and maintain robust claims and compliance systems and processes (including the oversight and processing of delivery partner claims, where applicable), to enable the efficient and effective delivery of programmes, robust verification of output and results evidence.

GC BGH is a community of specialists with a passion to help businesses across Greater Manchester to realise their ambitions. Since 2011, the Hub has supported more than 15,000 businesses including start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses, providing finance guidance, creating international links, and paving the way for innovation and people development across the region. We work with the best of public and private partners, offering expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, funding and much more.

Key Responsibilities

Gather, verify and report on output, results and impacts data, ensuring a robust, fully compliant audit trail is in place for all items claimed and providing feedback and guidance to project delivery teams, as required, to ensure a high standard of documentary evidence
Guide and support the project compliance and delivery teams with regard to impact related issues to ensure a high level of compliance with funder regulations and contractual obligations and the teams core objectives
To monitor project performance and provide analysis and information to the heads of service and senior managers to enable contractual agreements to be managed effectively and to enable accurate and timely reporting
Where appropriate, work with suppliers and internal or external partners to ensure the successful processing of contract claims and compliant project delivery
Play a key part in the preparation and delivery of funder audits, ensuring audit trails are comprehensive, fully compliant and wellpresented
Support the process of maintaining and managing project documentation and processes, ensuring best practice and any changes to guidance is incorporated into standard forms and is reflected in procedures and guidance documents
Ensure that any UK Subsidy obligations relating to funded activity are fulfilled and that any required processes are effectively executed and tracked
Where required, provide support to the finance team to identify, verify and apportion eligible defrayed expenditure, across a broad range of financial transactions to accurately allocate project costs and produce robust and compliant claims across a number of funding streams and with a fully compliant audit trail
Ensure data management tools are maintained to a high level of efficiency and accuracy in order that analysis and performance reporting is timely and relevant

About you

Demonstrable experience of managing publicly funded contracts in a relevant private or public sector role
Commercial organisation, government / public body, NGO or a consultancy
Compiling or contributing to the process of compiling claims
A track record of delivering a high standard of accuracy and contractual compliance
Accounting experience (desirable but not essential)
A working knowledge of project claims processing and contract management systems/processes
Knowledge of public funding contract, audit and compliance requirements

Skills Required:

Relevant degree/or administrative or / professional qualification or equivalent business experience
Numerically literate with a high level of attention to detail
Use of Excel Spreadsheets to an intermediate/advanced level
Ability to work effectively with others to meet deadlines
Able to understand and manipulate complex data sets with a high level of accuracy
Excellent organisational and administrative skills
Ability to effectively manage a broad range of contract performance and financial issues

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working.

Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles.

We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.