Finance Manager
Salary: £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.
* Creating in‑year forecasts, full‑year budgets, and long‑term financial plans.
* Supporting and collaborating with 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.
* 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.
* Providing 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 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 senior managers.
* Identifying opportunities to drive change and improving the financial acumen of decision‑makers.
* Building strong, credible, and constructive stakeholder relationships within the business areas I 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: significant, demonstrable experience leading the full annual and monthly forecasting, budgeting, financial planning, and reporting cycles required for this role.
* Commercial Finance or FP&A background with post‑qualification experience leading annual budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and monthly reporting for medium to large business areas (c. £10m+ P&L).
* Successfully built credible and collaborative cross‑functional internal stakeholder relationships with strong interpersonal, influencing, and negotiating skills.
* Commercially minded with strong analytical and modelling skills, and the ability to interpret complex financial data into actionable insights and trends.
* Strong communication skills 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.
* Demonstrates curiosity and a proactive approach to learning, quickly gets up to speed, builds stakeholder relationships, and delivers impact from the outset of the contract.
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
Any offer of employment for this role will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under‑represented.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.
Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18.
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