Grants Assurance - Assistant Manager

Full job description
Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

Job Purpose

You will be responsible for delivering proactive, high quality and value-added assurance services over compliance with respective grant making bodies/donor rules and requirements for grants awarded for agreed projects/outputs for public and private sector organisations nationally.

The role will principally involve working with the Grants Assurance Manager to plan, co-ordinate and deliver grant verification reviews. This will include planning and liaison with the grantee, preparation of working papers, briefing the team and leading fieldwork as well as quality assurance of work, providing feedback and reporting of the work. You will also have the opportunity to play a key role in development and delivery of training alongside business development activities ranging from proposals and events, to training grantee teams.

The team has experienced strong growth in recent years and is well placed to build on this further with strong opportunities in the short to medium for further progression for successful candidates. You will also be expected to contribute to the wider success of the Risk Consulting service line and help in its continuous improvement.

Whilst location is not currently an issue as such work is being conducted remotely, this role could therefore be based in Poole, London, Manchester or Birmingham, with travelling subject to client and business need.

You will report to the Director and Partner responsible for Public Services work within Risk Consulting.

Role Responsibilities

Co-ordination and support of the overall work programme for grant assurance
Controlling grant assignments from planning through to preparation of certificates and draft reports in line with agreed timescales.
Planning and performance of fieldwork including liaison with the grantee, briefing the team, as well as lead feedback meetings with the grantee
Considering the needs and skills of those under supervision, organising tasks and responsibilities.
Providing on-the-job training and supervision of junior team members during delivery of fieldwork.
Building and maintaining strong working relationships with the grantee, ensuring any problems or requests are dealt with promptly.
Maintaining control and stability under pressure whilst recognising the deadline or urgency to be dealt with.
Assesses and produces high quality work in line with the Firm's policy and processes, meeting relevant regulatory requirements.
Providing constructive feedback for the completion of team member performance appraisals.
Assistance on other special assignments (e.g. other grant related assurance) as and when required.
Ability to make confident and clear presentations of service features and benefits to providers.
Ensures that the services provided are genuinely appropriate for the grantee.
Identify opportunities and prospects for new work.
Support in development and delivery of training alongside review and improvements to methodologies.
Ensure standards and procedures maintained by whole team.
Skills, Knowledge Experience

Knowledge of grant funding and regulatory environment or external audit
Holds CCAB (i.e.) ACA, CA, ACCA, IIA or other relevant qualification
Good interpersonal and client handling skills
Experience of managing, training and coaching junior staff.
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Actively seeks to enhance expertise and knowledge.
Ability to develop new initiatives and methodologies.
High attention to detail
Ability to identify issues through sound analysis and application of technical skills in all situations.
Provides assistance, shares experience, provides meaningful feedback and proactively supports the development of others.
Takes ownership of projects, effectively delegates to others within the team and takes responsibility for quality control.
Begins to develop a network of client contacts and contacts in the wider market.
About Forvis Mazars

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