Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Financial Project Officer for our client a large local government based in Bristol.
The successful candidate will support the current Retrofit Team. The post holder will co-ordinate the financial processes of the Energy Hub’s housing retrofit Projects, alongside the associated governance, communication and reporting requirements.
This is a 3 month starting contract with the possibility for extensions. Hybrid working.
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Initiating Projects outlining a business’s project financial objectives clearly, including preferred payment type and payment schedule.
- Taking part in project meetings and suggesting adjustments.
- Setting and adhering to a budget that maintains objectives and criteria of the Grant Funding, validating Grant claims and processing grant claims and invoices.
- Consistently monitoring the costs, progress, and quality of a project.
- Organising all project-related financial paperwork.
- Monitoring and reviewing project progress, and assisting to producing performance management and business analysis reports.
- Supporting grant funding applications and tendering.
- Evaluating projects and reporting on financial outcomes.
- Ensuring all relevant financial and monitoring information for each project is accurate and that documentation is stored correctly.
- Doing periodic reconciliation of project budget against actual invoices and managing final project reconciliation requirements.
- Ensure grant payment requests are correct before uploading to the accounts payable system.
Personal Requirements:
- Experience gained in a similar project admin / support / project management officer (PMO)/finance role.
- Have or be working towards a recognised finance/accountancy qualification or be qualified by experience.
- Experience in Financial/ transactional accounting.
- Familiarity with grant schemes.
- Knowledge of project monitoring and reporting processes.
- Confident with financial processes and project financial processes.
- Knowledge of housing energy efficiency data and policies (Desirable).
- Experience gained in social housing, council authority, government body (Desirable).
Working Hours: 08:30am – 17:00pm, Monday – Friday
Pay: £19.92 p/h
Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.
Key Words: Project Support, Grants, Energy Efficiency,