Post Award Analyst

6 days ago


Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a detail-oriented and proactive Post Award Analyst to join our Financial Planning and Reporting Team. We are a leading institution in research and innovation, committed to advancing knowledge and driving progress through our robust research initiatives. Our Financial Planning and Reporting Team plays a crucial role in supporting these efforts by ensuring efficient management, oversight and accurate financial reporting of research grants.

As a Post Award Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in the financial management of our research grants. Reporting to the Financial Planning and Reporting Manager, the successful candidate will leverage system functionality and capability for the timely production of accurate financial information in support of research grants and other functional accounts. Working closely with Finance Business Partners, the post holder will ensure accurate and timely input of internal processes such as journals, timesheets, recharges and service level agreements rates.

Key deliverables will include:

Financial information:

  • Preparation and production of all grant claims in line with contract requirements, including the consolidation of partner expenditure.
  • Undertake variance analysis and work collaboratively with Finance Business Partners to highlight anomalies and provide investigative review of the figures
  • Review partner expenditure reports for accuracy, appropriateness and reasonableness discussing anomalies

Budgeting and Reporting

  • Develop and produce monthly reporting packs across grants and functional accounts
  • Work with the wider Financial Planning and Reporting team in the development of system driven KPIs to enable meaningful analysis of figures
  • Ownership and production of yearly corporate budgeting packs

Period end activities

  • Checking, verifying and inputting all journals to transfer expenditure between accounts, checking eligibility of expenditure to funding body terms and conditions
  • Support the Financial Planning and Reporting team with any other month end and year end tasks

Training/facilitation

  • Participating and delivering engaging and interactive training sessions to finance and non-finance personnel, covering topics such as grant management, financial analysis, budgeting, and reporting.

Business Partnering

  • Understand business needs and priorities.
  • Work collaboratively with Finance Systems Support to maintain systems
  • Be aware of changing requirements of funders and stay up to date with project delivery protocol.

Audit and compliance

  • Maintaining relationships with external auditors, investigating any findings and recommendations
  • Implementing and maintaining processes to ensure compliance with funder terms and conditions
  • Implementing and maintaining compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate:

  • AAT qualification with evidence of continued professional development or similar accounting qualification or relevant experience
  • Knowledge of business intelligence reporting, Reporting Development
  • Good understanding of financial management processes and systems
  • Experience of providing Management Information reports relevant to various stakeholders
  • Relevant experience of dealing with grant funding or a similar environment
  • Experience of producing expenditure statements and account reconciliations
  • Meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to undertake routine work to a high degree of accuracy

(Please see full job description and person specification)

Informal enquiries can be made to:

Closing Date: 4th July 2024

Application Process: To apply for the position please click on the apply link and upload your CV and Covering Letter.

Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we may close our vacancies early.

LSTM actively promotes Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Policies

£32,332 to £37,099 per annum



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