Senior Manager, Grant Compliance & Management (9-month contract), OFIN

Job Description

• This position is for Office of Finance (OFIN).
• Grants Administration:
• Actively participate in the pre-award and post closure stages in the grants administration cycle, to rein higher level of efficiency at post award stages.
• Active business partnering with Office of Research and Faculty.
• Involved in review of T&Cs of grant agreements.
• Increase overhead recovery from grantors.
• Cover duty for the grant compliance role: learn the end to end process for claim submission template and format, act as cover/backup team.
• Grant Reporting and Business Partnering:
• Design appropriate reports for PI and School administrators.
• Prepare budget & forecast for all grant activities.
• Examine different financial scenarios to support analysis for planning and projections.
• Increase utilisation of grants awarded.
• Actively participate in design and implementation of new ERP system.
• Grants Governance:
• Establish policies and processes, renew existing ones (where appropriate) and communicate to relevant parties.
• Draft policy documents.
• Support on queries on policy matters.
• Monitor to ensure compliance.
• Building SMU Grants Team:
• Support Senior Associate Director to achieve an integrated team, towards synergies equivalent of a shared service department or alternate grouping.
• Increasing competency of team through knowledge sharing.
• Benchmarking with External Parties:
• Carry out relevant benchmarking exercises for purpose of improving efficiency.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Degree in Accountancy, Business or a related discipline with at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written skills are essential).
• Fast worker with ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Able to work well with people at different levels of the organisation.
• Committed, meticulous, organised and resourceful with positive work attitude.
• Good Microsoft Office application skills.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience in S4 HANA Experience is system set up with working knowledge of grants module, project module and fund module will be added advantage.
• Familiar with BI tools (e.g. Qlik sense, Power BI, Tableau) will be an added advantage.

• This position is for Office of Finance (OFIN).
• Grants Administration:
• Actively participate in the pre-award and post closure stages in the grants administration cycle, to rein higher level of efficiency at post award stages.
• Active business partnering with Office of Research and Faculty.
• Involved in review of T&Cs of grant agreements.
• Increase overhead recovery from grantors.
• Cover duty for the grant compliance role: learn the end to end process for claim submission template and format, act as cover/backup team.
• Grant Reporting and Business Partnering:
• Design appropriate reports for PI and School administrators.
• Prepare budget & forecast for all grant activities.
• Examine different financial scenarios to support analysis for planning and projections.
• Increase utilisation of grants awarded.
• Actively participate in design and implementation of new ERP system.
• Grants Governance:
• Establish policies and processes, renew existing ones (where appropriate) and communicate to relevant parties.
• Draft policy documents.
• Support on queries on policy matters.
• Monitor to ensure compliance.
• Building SMU Grants Team:
• Support Senior Associate Director to achieve an integrated team, towards synergies equivalent of a shared service department or alternate grouping.
• Increasing competency of team through knowledge sharing.
• Benchmarking with External Parties:
• Carry out relevant benchmarking exercises for purpose of improving efficiency.
• Other duties as assigned.