Compliance Officer

The Growth Company (GC) is looking to recruit a Compliance Officer who will develop and maintain robust claims and compliance systems and processes (including the oversight and processing of subcontractor invoices, or claims), to enable the efficient and effective delivery of programmes and ensure accurate allocation of costs, taking into account complex cross-project relationships; robust verification of output and results evidence; and accurate and timely submission of funder claims, thus ensuring effective recovery of expenditure and a high degree of compliance with funders' contractual requirements.

(GC) is an award-winning Social Enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. As a commercially driven not-for-profit, any surplus we make is reinvested into our services supporting growth that has real impact.,

• To evaluate and verify GC Business team and subcontractor claim submissions, both expenditure and output and results.


• To verify GC Business and subcontractor claim supporting evidence and thus ensure a fully compliant audit trail is provided to support eligible values claimed.


• To review and verify GC Business and subcontractor core output evidence, ensuring it complies with funder regulations, is complete, and provides a robust justification for the claim.


• To manage the receipt and logging of project Output and Results evidence for assigned contracts.


• Verify and compile documents and evidence required to support project expenditure, e.g. expenses, purchase orders, and procurement documents/data and evidence.


• To investigate expenditure and evidence queries, ensuring all the required supporting information, such as procurement backing evidence, apportionment evidence, coding, eligibility, etc. is in place.


• Creating and maintaining appropriate filing and document management systems for publicly funded contract paperwork and audit trails, and the preparation of evidence for funder audits.


• Assist in the creation and maintenance of appropriate systems that ensure timely, efficient, and accurate claim processes to ensure the smooth running of the GC Business Contracts.


• Guide and support the project delivery teams concerning both financial and impact-related issues to ensure a high level of compliance with funder regulations and contractual obligations.


• Play a key part in the preparation and delivery of funder audits, ensuring audit trails are comprehensive, fully compliant, and well-presented., We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.


As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

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GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.


• Compiling or contributing to the process of compiling claims.


• A track record of delivering a high standard of accuracy and contractual compliance.


• Accounting experience (desirable but not essential).


• A working knowledge of project claims processing and contract management systems/processes.


• Knowledge of public funding contracts, audit, and compliance requirements.


• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbally and in writing.


• Self-starter, able to work on own initiative prioritising workloads and tasks effectively.


• Ability to manage time and priorities effectively to enable objectives to be consistently met., Relevant degree/or administrative or / professional qualification or equivalent business experience.


• Numerically literate with a high level of attention to detail.


• Use of Excel Spreadsheets to an intermediate/advanced level.


• Confidence and ability to deal effectively with financial/accounting information, audit processes, and associated systems.


• Ability to understand and manipulate complex data sets with a high level of accuracy.


• Able to effectively manage a broad range of contract performance and financial issues.


• Ability to work with complex data sets to produce information with a high degree of accuracy to tight deadlines and the ability to communicate difficult issues effectively and thus build strong, positive relationships across project teams.
  
  All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.