This role is pivotal in ensuring transparency in RDN funding usage, developing efficient systems for invoice management, and ensuring timely financial reporting to stakeholders, including the RDN Coordinating Centre and the Department of Health and Social Care. Additionally, the Finance Manager will assist directors in local financial modeling and analysis to demonstrate the impact and value of research projects across the region.
As Finance Manager for the NIHR South West Central Regional Research Delivery Network, you will provide financial oversight for the procedures for disseminating and accounting for NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) funding within the Regional RDN (RRDN). This will be for an annual budget of around £30m. This role will work with the finance team of our Host Organisation (University Hospitals Bristol and Weston) and the RRDN Operations Director to ensure full accountability for RDN finance in the region. The Finance Manager will be involved in the management of the budget and will introduce, adapt and improve systems to assess applications for funding.
The NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) is part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research. We are funded by the Department of Health and Social Care to support the country's world-class research system to deliver high-quality research that enables the best care for our population.
Our vision is that the UK is a global leader in the delivery of high quality, commercial and non-commercial research that is inclusive, accessible, and improves health and care. Our mission is to enable the health and care system to attract, optimise and deliver research across England.
This role is with the NIHR South West Central Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN), which is hosted by University Hospitals Bristol and Weston (UHBW).
- lead on the day-to-day coordination of budgets and produce forecasts and reporting of RDN expenditure as required by various stakeholders, including the RDN Coordinating Centre (RDNCC), RDN Board, and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
- provide robust financial accountability, supported by the Finance Officer and Host Organisation finance team.
- ensure, at all times, that there is clear transparency of RDN usage and that there is a clear audit trail for the accountability of expenditure.
- ensure that all processes will align to the Host Organisation's Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs), and lead on developing and implementing a streamlined system for the receipt and payment of invoices from research Delivery Organisations (organisations delivering RDN portfolio research) across the RRDN region.
- have oversight of the processing of the Excess Treatment Costs (ETC) payments and ensuring that all payments are processed in-line with the Host Organisation requirements and within the contractual and sub-contractual arrangements for the RRDN.
- support the Directors within the RRDN, in collaboration with the Data and Analytics team, to ensure that research Delivery Organisation plans and reports are in place in a timely fashion and that impact can be demonstrated through analysis of Value for Money. Outputs may correlate to the requirement for local financial modelling and forecasting across the RRDN
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