Credible financial planning. Informed decision-making. Impacting the future.
Finance Manager
£57,500 - £65,500 (+ Benefits)
Grade: P3
Reports to: Senior Finance Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
What will I be doing?
* Owning and delivering timely and insightful reporting for Give
* Taking accountability and ownership of the Financial Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting for your specified business areas. This includes:
* Creating in-year forecasts, full-year budgets, and long-term financial plans.
* Supporting and collaborating with your stakeholders to enable the organisation to own and take responsibility for their plans and delivery.
* Collaborating with the other members of the wider finance team to guide them on financial planning activities.
* Acting as an advocate and role model for understanding cost drivers and cost control.
* Owning the financial reporting for your areas by:
* Collaborating with Management Accountants to ensure accurate and insightful monthly reporting for your business areas.
* Providing commentary and understanding on monthly and year-to-date variances and expectations.
* Understanding what is needed to inform decision‑making.
* Providing financial analysis and supporting financial decision‑making:
* Provide high‑quality analysis and decision support to help shape strategy, initiatives, projects, and business cases.
* Analysing trends and performance and feeding findings into forecasts and long‑term financial planning.
* Helping senior stakeholders (including Heads) to understand the financial impact of their initiatives and decisions on the charity's financial plan.
* Producing analysis that turns complex data into insight, understanding the 'so what', and questioning Heads and Senior Manager on 'what's next?'.
* Identifying opportunities to drive change and improving the financial acumen of decision‑makers.
* Building strong, credible, and constructive stakeholder relationships within the business areas that you support (particularly with Senior Leadership and Management teams).
What skills will I need?
* Qualified Finance Manager or Finance Business Partner (CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW or by experience) who has led financial planning and decision making in large, complex organisations.
* Qualified by experience definition: Has significant, demonstrable experience leading the full annual and monthly forecasting, budgeting, financial planning, and reporting cycles required for this role. Meets all requirements of the role.
* Commercial Finance or FP&A background with post‑qualification experience leading annual budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and monthly reporting activities for medium to large business areas (c.£10m+ P&L).
* Has successfully built credible and collaborative cross‑functional internal stakeholder relationships with strong interpersonal, influencing, and negotiating skills (including senior leadership and auditors).
* Commercially minded with strong analytical and modelling skills, and the ability to interpret complex financial data into actionable insights and trends.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly present and explain complex financial information and advice to non‑technical audiences.
* A proactive problem‑solver with a continuous improvement mindset for identifying and implementing continuous improvements, encouraging innovation, promoting best practices, and challenging conventional organisational approaches and thinking.
* Demonstrates curiosity and a proactive approach to learning, with the ability to quickly get up to speed, build stakeholder relationships, and deliver impact from the outset of the contract.
Our organisation values
* Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
* Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
* Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
* Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work‑life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.
Additional Information
Owing to the nature of this position, any offer of employment for this role will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.
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