Lead Finance Director

3 weeks ago


Twickenham, United Kingdom LGC Group Full time

Job Title

Lead Finance Manager

The LGC Group is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Finance Manager to join our dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in the financial management of our extensive research funding portfolio, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations and driving success through the development and implementation of key performance indicators.

Main Responsibilities

  • 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 NIHR/DH and NHS England.
  • 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 GMG processes with other research funders (including other NIHR Coordinating Centres).
  • Supervise the finance and contracts team work 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 GMG Budget

In this position, you will be supporting the Assistant Director in ensuring that the budget (£19m PA) is managed in line with the requirements of the LGC Divisional and Group Finance teams and customers:

  • Working with the LGC Divisional Finance team to ensure that an accurate P&L for GMG 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 GMG 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

Qualifications & 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 the 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.

Salary & Benefits

£56,400 to £59,500 PA, bonus subject to company performance, 25 days annual leave plus public holidays (UK), enhanced contributory pension scheme, life insurance, Benenden Healthcare, season ticket loan, laptop, IT equipment, and remote IT support.

This is a Twickenham office-based hybrid role, with an expectation for all employees to attend our offices a minimum of two to three days a week.

Application

We invite applications from qualified candidates who possess the relevant skills and experience. Please submit your CV along with a 'Statement of Suitability' that showcases your key skills and experiences in relation to the essential criteria outlined in the job description. We look forward to reviewing your application.

NB: Closing date for applications is 27th August. Interviews to be held from 2nd September.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age, disability, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. Shortlisting, interviewing, and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion, or belief, age, or trade union membership.


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