# NEL CRDC Finance and Costing Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nel-crdc-finance-and-costing-officer/fcfe59ba-bbaf-47ea-bd2f-592def126778 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nel-crdc-finance-and-costing-officer/fcfe59ba-bbaf-47ea-bd2f-592def126778.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inc. - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-27T10:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-13T08:52:03.889Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Research/Research-v8149499 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8149499?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview NEL CRDC Finance and Costing Officer - Band 6 We are seeking a motivated and highly organised Finance and Costing Officer to join our dynamic Research Finance Team. In this role, you will provide costing and financial support to help drive the growth of our commercial research portfolio across Barts Health and the North East London Commercial Research Delivery Centre (NEL CRDC). You will play key role in in financial oversight and costings of commercial trials, ensuring high-quality finance management and smooth day-to-day  operations across the three partner organisations collaborating in this flagship projects. You will have excellent organisational and administrative skills, with proven experience of working collaboratively with a range of professionals. You will be proficient in the use of Microsoft 365  packages, including the use of Excel for data manipulation and analysis. You will have a strong experience of commercial costings, NCVR process and able to produce clear, insightful reports. Strong written and verbal communication skills, the ability to build positive working relationships  across diverse teams and organisations, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities are essential for this role. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will work with the JRMO Barts Health R&D Finance team, responsible for all aspects of grant and project research finance administration, working with the various research teams/grant research budget holders in the Trust, Queen Mary University (Academic Partner) and other research organisations. The post holder will actively support the JRMO Barts Health R&D Finance Team with all aspects of financial management for the Northeast London Commercial Research Delivery Centre (NEL CRDC), being responsible for resolving all related account finance queries in the CRDC. The post holder will manage the NEL CRDC NIHR grant award and commercial research portfolio. They will be responsible for populating accurate and timely grant financial returns reports and reconciliations for income and expenditure ensuring awarded grant funds are spent in line with the research grant agreements and funders’ terms and conditions. The post holder will be responsible for managing all commercial research income (including but not limited to invoicing and distributions) relating to NEL CRDC activity ensuring that the Trust appropriate income distribution in compliance with funder’s due diligence requirements. The post holder will be responsible for month end and year end closure with support from the JRMO Barts Health R&D Finance Team and maintain the research grants’ transactional records on the Trust finance systems. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to deputise for the Senior Manager - Able to work with non-finance managers and PIs (such as clinicians or research nurses) - Excellent numerical, written and oral communication skills - Ability to analyse, interpret and utilise complex information for reporting, forecasting, costing and planning purposes - Computer skills together with good analytical and problem-solving skills - Ability to work on own initiative in a challenging environment to ensure deadlines are met - Attention to detail - Commitment to manage diversity in needs of internal and external customers - Advanced Excel skills - Excellent IT skills with the ability to accurately create input and manipulate data plus develop reports and documents, using a range of software **Desirable** - Financial modelling skills ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive Financial Management experience - Costing and financial management commercial research including budget and contract negotiation - Excellent experience of grant and commercial research financial administration - Ability to provide expert advice to Clinicians and Academics on all aspects of post-award grant finance administration - Ability to suggest and/or implement operational changes - Experience of managing the control of budgets - Experience of using Oracle, EDGE and Qlik systems **Desirable** - Previous NHS Finance experience - Presenting financial information to non-financial managers ### Communication **Essential** - Good interpersonal and team player skills - Good networking skills, particularly in a large corporate environment - Ability to work effectively with and influence all levels of sponsors and management - Able to contribute both written and verbally to senior management on policy discussions ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree level or equivalent in a financial or related subject - Excellent written and oral communication skills - Up to date knowledge of HEI working practices - Excellent working knowledge of financial systems and accounting methodologies particularly those relating to project accounting - NCVR principles and commercial research finances in NHS **Desirable** - Knowledge of business planning - Up to date knowledge of NHS financial accounting standards ### Specific requirements **Essential** - Able to attend work regularly and conduct work at main and subsidiary sites - Prepared to regularly travel to and work at NEL CRDC Partner organisations - Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations ### Personal and people development **Essential** - Honesty and integrity - Excellent interpersonal skills - Excellent analytical skills - Self-motivated - Team player - Professional approach - Proactive - Flexible and adaptable - Creative and innovative - Evidence of a commitment to personal development - Experience of conducting staff appraisals - Effective Staff Motivator ## Documents - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [job description and person specification band 6 (pdf, 814.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10449056) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.