Research Finance Officer (Studentships)

About us

UCL is a world-leading research-intensive university, often ranked in the top ten in the world, with an annual turnover of well over £1 billion. Our research and innovation continue to grow in scale and complexity with record levels of research income and impact achieved last year.

Research and Innovation Services (RIS) provides support and services for our academics working across the research and innovation life cycle with a focus on applying for and managing funding and providing professional advice on collaborations and contracts. RIS is comprised of four teams; Award Services, Contract Services, Planning, Insight and Improvement, and Compliance and Assurance, who all work together to deliver a service to support, advise and provide expertise to our academic community for our extensive and varied portfolio of externally funded projects.

About the role

In the job of Research Finance Officer - Studentships, based within the Award Services team, you'll support the financial management and administration of the University’s Doctoral Training Grants portfolio. Reporting to the Research Finance Manager - DTG, you'll be responsible for proactively providing a wide-ranging specialist support on all aspects of Doctoral Training Grants.

You'll maintain a detailed knowledge of funder terms and conditions and keep up to date with future revisions. You'll also provide guidance and advice to academic departments, Centre Directors, Supervisors and partner organisations on processes, procedures and best practice regarding the financial management and administration of the Doctoral Training Accounts, as well as producing timely reporting of financial statements.

A full range of duties can be found on the attached job description.

About you

To do this job you'll need experience in financial and administrative management of externally funded projects, funder terms and conditions, assurance and compliance obligations, excellent data analysis, reconciliation and IT skills. You'll have good time management skills and the ability to prioritise and manage their own workload and work to tight deadlines without compromising on accuracy.

If you have experience of managing Doctoral Training Grants, that would be greatly beneficial - but if you don't have this, but tick our other boxes, we'd still love to hear from you!

Please refer to the job description, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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