Lead Financial Director

2 weeks ago

Twickenham, United Kingdom LGC Group Full time
Job Description

Exciting Opportunity for a Lead Financial Manager

LGC Group is seeking a highly skilled and dynamic Financial Manager to join our dedicated team. As a key member of our finance team, you will play a pivotal role in running and growing our financial operations.

This role involves coordinating the financial management of LGC Group's extensive research funding portfolio. You will take the lead in running the financial aspects of a diverse portfolio of research awards, alongside key projects for our esteemed clients. You will lead a diverse team of 10, including 3 direct reports, to ensure smooth daily operations. You will be responsible for the Group's budget, providing critical support for business development initiatives. You will drive success by developing and running key performance indicators.

We are seeking a qualified accountant with exceptional communication skills, capable of influencing senior decision-makers and offering strategic insights across the Group. As a tried leader, you will inspire and develop your team while leading the daily operations of the department.

Main Responsibilities
  • Financial Oversight for a Comprehensive Research Portfolio
  • Accountability for the quality, accuracy, and timely completion of quarterly outturns and forecasts of expenditure for the research budgets handled by the CCF
  • Working closely with colleagues in the DH SRED Directorate to understand DH's financial reporting and monitoring requirements and to develop reporting structures and processes that meet these requirements in an efficient and effective manner
  • Ensuring that there are appropriate systems for issuing contracts and variations to contracts (VTCs) and for supervising the performance of programme teams in managing these systems
  • Implementation of systems and operational improvements to continually develop the finance function, in particular the process for managing and setting research budgets within programme teams
  • Ensure robust systems are in place to review the cost information provided in research funding applications, in order to ensure the best value for money for research funded by LGC Group
  • To build and support the financial awareness of members of the finance team, as well as staff in programme teams, developing their skills in monitoring and forecasting research budgets
  • To lead on finance initiatives of strategic importance to customers and support efforts to ensure appropriate consistency of Group processes with other research funders (including other LGC Group Coordinating Centres)
  • Supervise the finance and contracts team to best practice, and that policies and standard operating procedures are in place for sound financial monitoring, reporting, and forecasting, driving consistency and championing a culture of excellence and quality assurance
  • Actively contributing to staff continuous professional development
  • Ensuring that the CCF's senior management team has access to relevant and accurate management information
Financial Management of the Group Budget
  • Working with the LGC Group Divisional Finance team to ensure that an accurate P&L for the Group is produced on a monthly basis, resolving accounting issues as required
  • Contributing to the Divisional reporting pack, including providing a monthly commentary on performance versus budget, and reporting performance
  • Ensuring that customers are invoiced in a timely and accurate manner
  • Preparing an annual budget and quarterly forecasting for the Group in collaboration with the Divisional Finance team
  • Monitoring and reporting on variances/trend and advising leadership on possible courses of action
  • Providing financial support for winning new business, producing cost and pricing models to support required margins, constructing reasons for investment, and assessing benefits realised
  • Ensuring that the senior management team has access to relevant and accurate management information
Cost Modelling
  • Work with the business to identify cost drivers
  • Develop a cost model to estimate costs required for new and existing areas of the business
  • Continuously evaluate the model and propose changes when necessary
  • Support the business in the use of the model
Qualifications and Experience

Essential Criteria

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience, ideally in both a public sector and a commercial environment
  • Experience and understanding of management of research finances in an NHS and/or HEI setting
  • Good technical application of financial accounting skills
  • Previous experience and responsibility for divisional reporting requirements
  • Validated experience of building strong working relationships with operational teams
  • Experience of taking a significant role in systems implementation would be advantageous
  • Experience of creating and leading robust and sophisticated processes, ideally in a research funding environment
  • Experience of leading and developing others

Crucial Competencies and Behaviours

  • Expertise in financial modelling and forecasting
  • Ability to coach, develop, and empower people
  • Comfortable working in a demanding and evolving environment; able to adapt and be flexible to changing needs
  • Capable communicator with ability to establish credibility with key customers
  • Analytical approach and ability to challenge numbers and people
  • Comfortable working as an organisational lead and subject matter expert

Other Skills and Abilities

  • Strong communication skills
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills
  • Well-developed written and presentation skills

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