Finance Officer Restricted Funds

A Education provider in the North West of England are seeking a Finance Officer for their Post Graduate Research Division on a permanent basis. You primary responsibility is to support the Senior Postgraduate Finance Officer with business partnering of our key internal and external stakeholders in providing expert advice and guidance across all post award tasks and activities for postgraduate research awards.

This role is hybrid - 2 days a week on site.

Main Duties:

1. Support operations for all post award deliverables and tasks within an assigned portfolio of postgraduate awards.

2. Secondary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders within assigned portfolio of postgraduate research awards.

3. Understand broadly the main terms & conditions of the awards within the assigned portfolio of postgraduate awards and support the Senior Postgraduate Research Finance Officer with all financial reporting and audit conditions as required.

4. Support the Senior Postgraduate Research Finance Officer in providing relevant and reliable oversight of each postgradute research award within assigned portfolio.

5. Ensure continuous professional development (CPD) is maintained to the relevant standard to fulfil remit of role as set by management.

6. Support the Senior Postgraduate Research Finance Officer in planning and organising all task, activities and deliverables within remit of role to agreed timescales in order to comply with contractual deadlines.

Experience:

1. Studying towards a recognised CCAB professional accountancy qualification or equivalent.

2. Have experience of working in a finance environment.

3. Be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to communicate with all levels of seniority.

4. Have excellent IT skills, to include intermediate excel skills and be able to demonstrate analytical skills over a large amount of data.

5. Highly organised and be able to manage own work and prioritise potentially conflicting workloads with varying deadlines.

6. To maintain and promote a positive image of the University's finance service and capabilities to all contacts, internally and externally.

7. Previous experience of working with Oracle Financials software.