Contract Finance Officer

3 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

We are looking to appoint a talented individual to our Operations Team in the role of **Contract Finance Officer**. The purpose of the role includes processing complex data sets in preparation of funder claims ensuring accurate and timely recovery of project costs with a high degree of compliance to funder regulations and contractual requirements. Maintaining and assisting in the development of efficient systems and processes to manage the claim and routine finance processes.

The Greater Manchester (GM) Business Growth Hub is at the heart of Greater Manchester's strategy for determining and delivering business growth services which improve productivity and create jobs, as well as supporting businesses across the Northwest of England. We are part of the Growth Company, and we work with ambitious businesses that want to grow their bottom line, boost their profile, improve their environmental credentials, and create new business growth.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Processing complex monthly/quarterly finance data management routines to identify transactions for funder claims.
- Reconciliation and oversight of the company salary recharge and recharge control account.
- Preparation and verification of funder claims, ensuring contractual compliance. This includes ensuring robust and transparent document evidence trails to fulfil the requirements of funder audits.
- Lead the creation, verification, and processing of monthly journal transactions, managing intercompany recharges, working with Central Finance to verify income & expenditure, and undertaking financial reconciliations.
- Support the process of developing and managing data and management tools across the spectrum of business support projects.
- Provide relevant financial information for reporting and communication to the Group, its partners, funders, and subcontractors.
- When required, support the financial administration processes by raising purchase & sales orders, reviewing purchase invoice queries, and managing project-related financial queries.

**About you**:

- An organised and focused approach, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
- A strong communicator and a team player.
- Ability to agree and work effectively with others to meet deadlines.
- Ability to manipulate data sets from different systems across varying formats.
- Good interpersonal communication skills, both verbally and in writing.

**Skills required**:

- Qualified AAT / part qualified CIMA/ACCA or demonstrable equivalent business experience and knowledge
- Highly numerate, with Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, a working knowledge of VBA would be desirable.
- Accounting experience, including preparing Management Accounts for the 'trial balance' stage
- Experience in manipulating complex data with multi-layered relationships.
- Comfortable articulating complex data relationships to a range of stakeholders at all levels.
- Regulatory compliance and financial audits - desirable but not essential.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward, we will be transitioning to a culture where fully 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.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £31,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Paid volunteer time
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: On the road

Reference ID: 3838

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