HAYS
Grant Officer, Audit,
Your new company
Hays Accountancy and Finance are partnering with a local organisation in the search for a Grant Officer on a temporary basis, offering hybrid working conditions and a possible immediate start.
Your new role
- Ensure expenditure incurred is eligible, actual and consistent with the project concerned and monitor verification of expenditure against budgets.
- Complete verification forms, and produce verification reports as necessary, highlighting areas of non-compliance or potentially ineligible expenditure, detailing irregularities that will need reported to management for recovery action.
- Ensure that projects comply with descriptions given in grant applications; confirm compliance with contract conditions and verify grant funding has been used as specified in the Letter of Offer.
- Design and tailor the nature and the scope of verification work to address the size and nature of projects and uncover and address irregularities.
- Regularly report to the Governance Officer on non-compliance and financial irregularities and provide recommendations for improvement in line with the Best Practice Guidelines.
- Contribute to the review of monitoring and evaluation of the funding schemes, policies and procedures, projects and programmes and manage own workload to meet the changing priorities.
- Ensure the safe storage of all financial records within the area of responsibility.
- Facilitate the work of internal and external auditors appointed to report on matters relating to the verification of funding.
What you’ll need to succeed
- A minimum of 5 GCSEs or equivalent (Grade C or above), including Maths and English.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience carrying out verification or audit of expenditure OR A minimum of 2 years’ experience working in financial accounting OR A minimum of 2 years’ experience conducting payroll processing.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience reviewing financial processes and / or controls.
- Experience liaising with multiple stakeholders to achieve a positive outcome.
- Experience of working with MS Office packages, in particular MS Excel
What you’ll get in return
- Holidays – 25 plus 12 bank holidays
- Duration – 6 months possible extension
- Hours – 37 per week
- Hybrid working – minimum two days per week in the office.
What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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