Senior Grants Officer

AWD online; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

An organization supporting the UK creative industries is looking for a Senior Grants Officer. This full-time role involves managing grants, data analysis, and financial reporting. Ideal candidates will have prior finance department experience and strong Excel skills. The position offers a hybrid work setup in London with a salary of £33,000 - £38,000. Applications should include a CV and covering letter.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar finance role.
• Experience of data analysis and manipulation.
• Excellent IT skills including intermediate Excel.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail and capability to produce accurate work.

Responsibilities

• Manage grants and funding programs collaboratively.
• Reconcile grants data with finance system.
• Maintain the grants management system.

Skills

Data analysis

Excel

Verbal communication

Written communication

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Tools

BBGM

SUN accounting system

Job description

JOB OVERVIEW

Senior Grants Officer who has previous experience processing grants and bursaries, preferably within a Finance Department, with intermediate Excel and data analysis skills is required for an organisation that supports the UK TV, Film, VFX, Animation and the Games Industry.

SALARY: £33,000 - £38,000 pro rata

LOCATION: City of London / Hybrid (Minimum 2 days per week in the London office) – candidates MUST live within a commutable distance to London (EC1V)

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

HOW TO APPLY

To be considered for this job vacancy, please submit your CV and covering letter to our Recruitment Team who will review your details. CV’s of Job Applicants meeting this requirement will be submitted to our Client for consideration. By submitting your job application to us you are hereby giving us your express consent to submit your details to our Client for this purpose.

DUTIES

Your duties as the Senior Grants Officer include:

• Grants Management: In collaboration with delivery teams, develop appropriate schemes, guidelines, funding programmes, application and assessment forms for the fund; work closely with the delivery team to regularly inform fund priorities and processes; manage finance process for grants commissioning rounds and tenders; collate the assessment of applications to the funds, reviewing project budgets and cash flow summaries, financial assessment and presenting recommendations to the relevant decision panel or delivery managers; manage master templates of grants and bursaries contracts with regular reviews; issue and manage grant contracts ensuring that these are legally sound and are linked with deliverables and are in line with the company procurement policy; review approved grant applications for completeness and accuracy, ensuring that these have been approved in line with the grants process;
• Coordinate with the delivery team to inform fund priorities and processes
• Manage master templates of grants and bursaries contracts with regular reviews

SYSTEMS AND REPORTING

• Reconciling grants data from grants database (BBGM) with finance system (Sun)
• Regular review of aged grant creditors report – at least quarterly, providing narrative, prompt processing of fall-in grants, chasing grants creditors for outstanding reports and closing off grants in grants database and reporting it to finance system
• Maintaining the grants management system, providing training to new members including guides, ongoing evaluation of the system, identifying weaknesses and putting solutions in place

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide support to other members of the Fund team
• Provide support during financial and performance audit
• Provide process training to new delivery staff
• Projects and bids

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

ESSENTIAL

• Proven experience of working in a similar role within a finance department
• Proven experience of data analysis and manipulation
• Excellent IT skills including intermediate level of Excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of setting up processes to ensure master templates and contracts are reviewed
• Experience of managing and being the lead on system implementations
• Excellent organisation skills; ability to effectively manage varied tasks with competing priorities with minimum supervision
• Attention to detail and ability to produce accurate work

DESIRABLE

• Previous working experience of BBGM (GIFTS), SUN accounting system using Q&A

JOB REF

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