finance associate Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE06: £30,619 - £35,308 Per Annum
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Clinical Sciences / Institute for Regeneration and Repair / Centre for Reproductive Health
Full-time - 35 hours per week
Open Ended - Permanent
We are looking for an enthusiastic and service-focused individual to join our Institute for Regeneration and Repair team that provides local finance and research grant management services. You will provide a comprehensive, organised, responsive, proactive and flexible advice and facilitation service to members of the Centre for Reproductive Health at all stages of the process, from application development to final grant audit, liaising with expertise at Edinburgh Research Office at every stage.
This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.
The Opportunity:
Our institute has a small finance team of 12 who work together to support the academic endeavour of our three research centres. Within this group we have a transactional general ledger finance team and we have a grants team. As a grants team member, you will have your own individual PI portfolio and funder type portfolio as well as providing general support, so there is opportunity for both independent initiative driven work and larger group working within this role. We have initiated a programme of costing harmonisation across the centre sub teams to facilitate more efficient cross-cover within the institute so although this post is initially focused on supporting the Centre for Reproductive health you will have the additional opportunity to contact academic principal investigators within the other institute centres of the Centre for Inflammation Research and Centre for Regenerative Medicine. We will be supplying full training; however previous experience of working within the higher education research funding environment would be a strong advantage.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Significant financial or management accounting experience working in a busy accounts office environment with experience in higher education sector.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to seeking out information, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new skills, particularly digital skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and at ease when dealing with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Demonstrable planning and organisation skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key notes for applicants
The closing date for applications is 4th August 2023.
As part of this application you are required to submit a document of no more than one page detailing how you meet each of the essential criteria as outlined on the job description.
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