Grant Funding Accountant (Full time, but will consider 0.8FTE for the right candidate)

Introduction

Salary: £37,062 to £43,824

Pension: 8% non-contributory pensions (+ up to 5% matched) 

Annual Leave: 25 Days Holiday + Bank holidays + 4 customary days

Location: Hybrid Working - Leeds City Centre / Home (50/50)

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week (but will consider part time for the right candidate)

Contract: Permanent 

The Diocese of Leeds

The Diocese of Leeds represents the Church of England across the whole of West Yorkshire, the western part of North Yorkshire, and small parts of South Yorkshire, Lancashire, and County Durham. This is one of the largest dioceses in England, covering an area of around 2,425 square miles and housing a population of around 2.6 million. The Diocese has a turnover of over £20m and a Balance Sheet in excess of £200m.

The Diocese has an exciting strategy of ‘Confident Christians, Growing Churches, Transforming Communities’, which is the focus of our work as we move forwards. In delivering the diocesan vision, we are focusing on Encouraging Confidence as a simple way of defining our purpose.

The Role 

The Diocese is seeking to appoint a Grant Funding Accountant, who will play a vital role in managing our grant funding.

You will need to be a fully qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/ACMA), with excellent communication skills and an analytical approach. You will have proven technical expertise in both management and/or project accounting. You will have a good working knowledge of budgeting and cash flow forecasting. Ideally you will have experience working with grants in a multi-million-pound turnover charity but this is not essential.

Reporting to the Finance Manager the key responsibilities of the role include:

• Preparing grant application budgets.

• Preparing grant monitoring reports.

• Preparing grant funding claims.

• Providing project/grant reporting to programme boards and external funders. 

• Ensuring sound financial management of grant funds.

• Completing / reviewing of Balance Sheet reconciliations.

• Preparing / reviewing accruals and prepayments.

• Liaising with staff at the National Church Institutions and other grant funders as required.

The organisation is team orientated in their approach but enable team members to operate with a high level of autonomy. The successful candidates will enjoy freedom to get on with their role and work on their own initiative.

You need:

• Previous relevant accounting experience.

• Relevant accounting qualification.

• Strong IT Skills, particularly Excel and finance systems.

• Strong technical, analytical and reporting skills.

• To be accurate and pay attention to detail.

• To be forward thinking/proactive

• To have strong interpersonal skills

• To ability to consistently meet deadlines.

For more information on this vacancy, please contact Jane Adams (DBF Finance Manager) 0113 3530 220 or 07395 880094 or email: jane.adams@leeds.anglican.org  

The closing date for the vacancy is Sunday 29 June 2025 

Interviews to be held on Friday 11 July 2025

The package includes a competitive salary, flexi-time scheme, reimbursement of  travelling expenses, an 8% non-contributory pension with an additional 5% matched contributions, hybrid working (50%), Cycle to work scheme, EV salary sacrifice scheme and 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and four customary days a year (between Christmas and New Year).

Our Values

The Diocesan values, Loving, Living, Learning, are vital to the way we encourage equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We aim to:

• Love God, the world and one another.

• Live in the world as it is, but, drawn by a vision of something better, we want to help individuals and communities flourish,

• Learn when we get things wrong, by listening and growing together.

The Diocese of Leeds is proud to be a Living Wage Employer.

Leeds Diocesan Board of Finance (The Board) is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and the workplace and in avoiding unlawful discrimination. Accordingly, the Board will ensure that recruitment and selection, training and development, and promotion procedures result in no job applicant or employee receiving less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, class or caste, religious belief or lack of religious belief (unless this is an occupational requirement), disability, trade union membership or non-membership, gender or sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, responsibility for dependents or being a part-time or fixed-term worker. The Board’s objective is to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and otherwise treated solely on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills and abilities.

For clergy applying to this role, your Area/Suffragan Bishop must be informed of your applications at the earliest opportunity. Furthermore, you must seek a Diocesan Bishop’s Licence in order to be eligible for a new role, and please be aware that granting a licence is subject to a CCSL from your Area/Suffragan Bishop.

The Diocese of Leeds is currently unable to sponsor candidates without Right to Work in the UK. Candidates must have Right to Work in the UK to take up this role.

To download a copy of our policy for the recruitment of ex-offenders from the diocesan website, please click on the below link:

https://www.leeds.anglican.org/vacancies