Hybrid / London
Accounting, Finance,Admin, Secretarial, PA
Contract | Full Time
ASAP
07/08/2025
07/09/2025
Senior Grants Officer who has previous experience processing grants and bursaries, preferably within a Finance Department with intermediate Excel skills and the ability to carry out data analysis is required for an organisation that supports the UK TV, Film, VFX, Animation and the Games Industry.
SALARY: £33,000 - £38,000 pro rata
LOCATION: City of London / Hybrid (Minimum 2 days per week in the London office) – candidates MUST live within a commutable distance to London (EC1V)
JOB TYPE: Full-Time, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
JOB OVERVIEW
We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Senior Grants Officer who has previous experience processing grants and bursaries, preferably within a Finance Department with intermediate Excel skills and the ability to carry out data analysis.
Working as Senior Grants Officer you will support the Finance Manager in maintaining the smooth running of the grants and bursaries giving process.
As the Senior Grants Officer you will also be responsible for the processing the organisation’s grants and bursaries ensuring that projects fall within budget, are contracted in a timely manner and subsequently monitored. You will work collaboratively across the wider organisation to ensure that funders’ requirements are met.
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If this job looks like your ideal position, then please send in your CV as soon as possible for our Recruitment Team to review.
DUTIES
Your duties as the Senior Grants Officer include:
Grants Management
In collaboration with delivery teams, develop appropriate schemes, guidelines, funding
programmes, application and assessment forms for the fund
Work closely with the delivery team to regularly inform fund priorities and processes
Managing finance process for grants commissioning rounds and tenders
Collate the assessment of applications to the funds, reviewing project budgets and cash flow summaries, financial assessment and presenting recommendations to the relevant decision panel or delivery managers
Manage master templates of grants and bursaries contracts with regular reviews
Issue and manage grant contracts ensuring that these are legally sound and are linked with deliverables and are in line with the company procurement policy
Review approved grant applications for completeness and accuracy, ensuring that these have been approved in line with the grants process
Work closely with the delivery team to regularly inform fund priorities and processes
Manage master templates of grants and bursaries contracts with regular reviews
Systems and Reporting
Reconciling grants data from grants database (BBGM) with finance system (Sun)
Regular review of aged grant creditors report - at least quarterly, providing narrative, prompt processing of fall-in grants, chasing grants creditors for outstanding reports and closing off grants in grants database and reporting it to finance system
Maintaining the grants management system, providing training to new members including guides, on-going evaluation of the system, identifying weaknesses and putting solutions in place
Other Responsibilities
Provide support to other members of the Fund team
Provide support during financial and performance audit
Provide process training to new delivery staff
projects and bids
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
ESSENTIAL
Proven experience of working in a similar role within finance department
Proven experience of data analysis and manipulation
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience of setting up processes to ensure master templates and contracts are reviewed
Excellent organisation skills; ability to effectively manage varied tasks with competing priorities with minimum supervision
Attention to detail and ability to produce accurate work
Excellent IT skills including intermediate Level of Excel
DESIRABLE
Previous working experience of BBGM (GIFTS), SUN accounting system using Q&A
HOW TO APPLY
To be considered for this job vacancy, please submit your CV to our Recruitment Team who will review your details. CV’s of Job Applicants meeting this requirement will be submitted to our Client for consideration. By submitting your job application to us you are hereby giving us your express consent to submit your details to our Client for this purpose.
JOB REF: AWDO-C13738
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