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About the Role
The Senior Research Accounting Officer is a key position within the Research & Innovation Finance team, responsible for the financial management of research grants. This role serves as a business partner for the financial management of research grants in specific Schools, providing professional, customer-focused advice and support to researchers and Schools.
Responsibilities
- Provide post-award financial administration for a portfolio of research and enterprise projects.
- Act as a business partner to budget holders in managing their project budgets.
- Ensure timely collection of research income through invoicing, raising claims, and funder reporting.
- Ensure all research collaborators are paid according to grant terms and conditions.
Requirements
- Extensive experience and knowledge in a similar role, ideally within the higher education sector.
- Demonstrated customer focus.
- Strong planning and prioritization skills.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in the use of the Agresso system.
- Competency in Microsoft Excel for analytical and business partnering tasks.
Skills
- Financial management of research grants
- Post-award financial administration
- Budget management
- Income collection
- Funder reporting
- Agresso system proficiency
- Microsoft Excel
- Analytical skills
- Business partnering
- Customer focus
- Planning and prioritization
- Communication
- Problem-solving
Location
- City St George's, University of London
Work Type
- Permanent
- In person interviews
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Sector-leading salary
Benefits
- Pension scheme
- Comprehensive package of staff training and development
About the Company
- City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions, combining expertise from City, University of London and St George’s, University of London.
- The combined university is a large higher education destination for London students, offering a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science, and technology.
- The university is committed to supporting students to pursue their career and personal ambitions.
- Research is engaged, at the frontier of practice, and has a positive impact on the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in all activities, processes, and culture for staff, students, and visitors.
- Welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.
- Operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.