Internal Applicants Only - Senior Finance Officer

at  Cardiff University

Key Duties

• Provide professional advice and guidance on processes and procedures Internally to the University and External partners, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensuring complex and conceptual financial issues are understood.
• Responsibility for the completion of the University’s quarterly claims for allocated projects, ensuring that all costs charged are in line with the relevant University and Funder Financial Regulations.
• Manage the audit and verification processes.
• Responsibility for monitoring financial progress of the various work packages within and influencing budget decisions.
• Manage partner quarterly payments, ensuring reconciliation between payments made and expenditure declared.
• Produce regular financial forecast reports, prepare quarterly budgets, schedule expenditure, analysing and highlighting deviation/variations and initiating corrective action.
• Support the early identification of financial risks, and investigate and analyse specific financial issues, creating recommendation reports for the Programme Manager.
• Attendance at project meetings involving partners, presenting administrative and financial guidance and ensuring that the financial plan of the project is running to schedule.
• Ensure that the programme financial records are maintained in line with University Accounting regulations, programme cost eligibility and Subsidy Aid requirements.
• Develop and maintain an effective working knowledge of the rules and terms and conditions of the project and support colleagues and Academic staff in their contractual obligations in relation to the management of their projects.
• Line management of Financial Administrator to ensure they are supported and that their key objectives are achieved
• Support Project Managers with the provision and collation of financial reporting data and evidence to inform programme evaluation activities.
• Work with the Project Manager to develop and deliver training on financial and compliance matters relating to allocated projects.
• Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department.

General Duties

• Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
• Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
• Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.

Key Duties

• Provide professional advice and guidance on processes and procedures Internally to the University and External partners, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensuring complex and conceptual financial issues are understood.
• Responsibility for the completion of the University’s quarterly claims for allocated projects, ensuring that all costs charged are in line with the relevant University and Funder Financial Regulations.
• Manage the audit and verification processes.
• Responsibility for monitoring financial progress of the various work packages within and influencing budget decisions.
• Manage partner quarterly payments, ensuring reconciliation between payments made and expenditure declared.
• Produce regular financial forecast reports, prepare quarterly budgets, schedule expenditure, analysing and highlighting deviation/variations and initiating corrective action.
• Support the early identification of financial risks, and investigate and analyse specific financial issues, creating recommendation reports for the Programme Manager.
• Attendance at project meetings involving partners, presenting administrative and financial guidance and ensuring that the financial plan of the project is running to schedule.
• Ensure that the programme financial records are maintained in line with University Accounting regulations, programme cost eligibility and Subsidy Aid requirements.
• Develop and maintain an effective working knowledge of the rules and terms and conditions of the project and support colleagues and Academic staff in their contractual obligations in relation to the management of their projects.
• Line management of Financial Administrator to ensure they are supported and that their key objectives are achieved
• Support Project Managers with the provision and collation of financial reporting data and evidence to inform programme evaluation activities.
• Work with the Project Manager to develop and deliver training on financial and compliance matters relating to allocated projects.
• Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department

General Duties

• Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
• Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
• Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role