Research Ops Executive #ESY

Recruit Express Pte Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Singapore seeks candidates for a role focusing on financial administration of research grants. Responsibilities include ensuring timely grant claims, preparing accurate journals, handling inquiries from funding agencies, and supporting various financial reporting and audit issues. The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely submission of research grant claims.
• Prepare grant claims in accordance with the funding agencies mandate.
• Check accuracy of grant claims prepared by Centres.
• Ensure FSOA are submitted on time.
• Prepare journals for grants received.
• Handle enquiries from funding agencies.
• Drive improvements in financial administration processes.
• Clear grant claim queries promptly.
• Liaise with funding agencies and PI when needed.

Job description

Overview

Job scope: Ensure efficiency in carrying out the following tasks:

• Maintenance of SAP project accounts, funded programs and grant accounts for new projects and changes to existing projects
• Liaise and clarify with Research Support Office (RSO), Centres & PI on account creation matters
• Verification of financial information for project setup and budget virement in FIBI research system
• Prepare claims and trigger invoice from FIBI research system
• Prepare fund transfers journals
• Follow up to clear outstanding items
• Follow up with funders on outstanding claims
• Prepare Final statements of accounts (FSOA)
• Refund of balances (payments & journals)
• Closing of SAP accounts
• Closing of project accounts

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely submission of research grant claims
• Prepare grant claims in accordance with the funding agencies mandate
• Check to ensure that the grant claims prepared by Centres are accurate and are in accordance with the funding agencies mandate
• Ensure FSOA are submitted to funding agencies within the stipulated timeline
• Prepare journals to allocate grants received to individual projects (Joint collaboration projects)
• Handle enquiries from funding agencies, researchers
• Participate and/or drive ongoing and ad-hoc projects in improving processes and systems enhancements and/or formulation of policies relating to financial administration of research grants
• Clear grant claim queries raised by funding agencies promptly
• Liaise with funding agencies, PI etc when the need arises
• Follow-up with PI on non-fundable expenses
• Support Senior Assistant Director/ Senior Assistant Manager in various financial and management reporting and audit issues

Application

Interested candidates, please email your resume to [e-mail]

Anna See Sing Yee
CEI Reg R25157535
Recruit Express Pte Ltd
EA License No: 99C4599

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