Finance Manager R&D

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the R&D Finance Team, who provides financial advice to support the Research and Development work within the Trust and to assist with the administration of R&D projects.

The Trust Research & Development (R&D) Team sits within the Joint Research Enterprise & Services (JRES) and provides specialist financial advice to support Research and Development within the Trust and to assist with the administration of R&D projects.

You will lead a team of three providing financial oversight of the Trust Research Portfolio. Provide expertise advise and guidance on Research funding, Financial management and Budgetary control.

Main duties of the job

• To manage the Trusts CRN allocation, providing variance analysis, preparation of quarterly reports and annual budget setting.
• Lead the R&D finance team, motivating staff to provide pro-active, outcome focused and supportive service to clinicians.
• To deputise and assist the Head of Research Funding.
• To provide financial support to enable robust financial management of all R&D funding bids both Commercial and Non Commercial.
• To assist production of regular R&D budgetary reporting and analysis to all levels of management and research leads.
• To provide financial advice and guidance to Clinicians, Research Teams and Administrators within the Trust.
• To assist in production of all external R&D reporting requirements.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, St Georges Hospital provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.