Grants Assurance - Assistant Manager

Forvis Mazars UK; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvis Mazars UK is seeking a Grants Assurance Specialist to deliver high-quality assurance services for grant compliance. The role involves coordination of grant reviews, client interaction, and training junior staff. You will be part of a growing team in a flexible work environment, with excellent opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Holds CCAB qualification.
• Experience in managing, training, and coaching junior staff.
• Good knowledge of grant funding and regulatory environments.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and support the overall grant assurance work programme.
• Control grant assignments from planning to report preparation.
• Provide on-the-job training to junior team members.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Client handling

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Education

CCAB qualification (ACA, CA, ACCA, IIA)

Job description

ForvisMazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

Job Purpose

You will be responsible for delivering proactive, high quality and value-added assurance services over compliance with respective grant making bodies/donor rules and requirements for grants awarded for agreed projects/outputs for public and private sector organisations nationally.

The role will principally involve working with the Grants Assurance Manager to plan, co-ordinate and deliver grant verification reviews. This will include planning and liaison with the grantee, preparation of working papers, briefing the team and leading fieldwork as well as quality assurance of work, providing feedback and reporting of the work. You will also have the opportunity to play a key role in development and delivery of training alongside business development activities ranging from proposals and events, to training grantee teams.

The team has experienced strong growth in recent years and is well placed to build on this further with strong opportunities in the short to medium for further progression for successful candidates. You will also be expected to contribute to the wider success of the Risk Consulting service line and help in its continuous improvement.

Whilst location is not currently an issue as such work is being conducted remotely, this role could therefore be based in Poole, London, Manchester or Birmingham, with travelling subject to client and business need.

You will report to the Director and Partner responsible for Public Services work within Risk Consulting.

Role & Responsibilities

• Co-ordination and support of the overall work programme for grant assurance
• Controlling grant assignments from planning through to preparation of certificates and draft reports in line with agreed timescales.
• Planning and performance of fieldwork including liaison with the grantee, briefing the team, as well as lead feedback meetings with the grantee
• Considering the needs and skills of those under supervision, organising tasks and responsibilities.
• Providing on-the-job training and supervision of junior team members during delivery of fieldwork.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with the grantee, ensuring any problems or requests are dealt with promptly.
• Maintaining control and stability under pressure whilst recognising the deadline or urgency to be dealt with.
• Assesses and produces high quality work in line with the Firm's policy and processes, meeting relevant regulatory requirements.
• Providing constructive feedback for the completion of team member performance appraisals.
• Assistance on other special assignments (e.g. other grant related assurance) as and when required.
• Ability to make confident and clear presentations of service features and benefits to providers.
• Ensures that the services provided are genuinely appropriate for the grantee.
• Identify opportunities and prospects for new work.
• Support in development and delivery of training alongside review and improvements to methodologies.
• Ensure standards and procedures maintained by whole team.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Knowledge of grant funding and regulatory environment or external audit
• Holds CCAB (i.e.) ACA, CA, ACCA, IIA or other relevant qualification
• Good interpersonal and client handling skills
• Experience of managing, training and coaching junior staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Actively seeks to enhance expertise and knowledge.
• Ability to develop new initiatives and methodologies.
• High attention to detail
• Ability to identify issues through sound analysis and application of technical skills in all situations.
• Provides assistance, shares experience, provides meaningful feedback and proactively supports the development of others.
• Takes ownership of projects, effectively delegates to others within the team and takes responsibility for quality control.
• Begins to develop a network of client contacts and contacts in the wider market.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward.Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approachclick here.

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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