Senior Grants Officer (AWDO-C13901) in London)

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

Job summary

A leading support organization for the film industry is seeking a Senior Grants Officer based in London. The ideal candidate will manage the grants and bursaries process, ensuring projects meet funder requirements while utilizing excellent data analysis and intermediate Excel skills. This full-time role offers a salary between £33,000 - £38,000 pro rata and operates on a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in a finance department.
• Excellent IT skills including intermediate Excel.
• Attention to detail and ability to produce accurate work.

Responsibilities

• Support the Finance Manager in managing grants processes.
• Ensure projects adhere to budget and are monitored.
• Collaborate to meet funder requirements.

Skills

Data analysis

Intermediate Excel

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Tools

BBGM (GIFTS)

SUN accounting system

Job description

Overview

Senior Grants Officer with 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

Responsibilities

• Support the Finance Manager in maintaining the smooth running of the grants and bursaries process.
• Process the organisation’s grants and bursaries, ensuring projects stay within budget, are contracted in a timely manner, and are subsequently monitored.
• Collaborate across the wider organisation to ensure funders’ requirements are met.

Duties

• 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 these are legally sound and linked with deliverables and are in line with the company procurement policy.
  • Review approved grant applications for completeness and accuracy, ensuring alignment with the grants process.
  • Work with the delivery team to regularly 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 the 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 the grants database and reporting it to the 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 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.

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. CVs 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.

JOB REF: AWDO-C13901