Research Grant Finance Officer

3 weeks ago


University of York, United Kingdom University of York Full time

**Department**

The Department of Health Sciences is a large, multi-disciplinary and multi-professional department with over 350 academics, researchers and support staff engaged in delivering research & teaching. In 22/23 the department had annual research project income of £14.6 million raised almost entirely from external competitive grant funding from a wide range of funders.

**Role**

The Department of Health Sciences wishes to appoint a Research Grant Finance Officer to play a key role in the financial management of Professor Simon Gilbody’s newly awarded £4 Million National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation projected titled: _The SCIMITAR-South Asia programme to address tobacco-related multiple long-term conditions in Severe Mental Illness. _This project is in joint collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore, India

You will provide comprehensive day-to-day financial management and contractual compliance for the NIHR Unit and its project teams (both in the UK and overseas). This will include monitoring project budgets and fluctuations in exchange rates, forecasting, meticulous expenditure checks, preparation of detailed financial statements and audits and support and training to project teams (both in the UK and overseas).

You will collaborate with Research Grants Operations office and Research Knowledge and Exchange Contracts team, and you will be supported in your NIHR Unit activities by a Project Manager and Project Coordinator.

**Skills, Experience & Qualification needed**
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience
- Good maths GCSE or equivalent
- Experience of working in an administrative and/or financial role in a large, complex organisation
- Excellent working knowledge of financial systems and the ability to adapt to other systems, particularly those with a financial or research grants administration basis
- Experience of ensuring compliance with financial policies and regulations
- Excellent numerical skills, showing meticulous attention to detail when dealing with finances
- Proven skills and ability for managing budgets, expenditure monitoring and forecasting, and production of detailed reports
- Ability to problem solve and liaise with finance and research partners/stakeholders internally and in organisations within and outside of the UK

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