Senior Governance & Finance Manager, Cancer Research
£50-55k
More information about location
Office located in Stratford, London
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£50-55k
More information about location
Office located in Stratford, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- This role could suit someone currently in a Funding and Assurance Manager role, or a Grants Policy and Finance Manager role
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks, showing adaptability to meet challenging targets and deadlines
- Knowledge of the end to end research grant funding process
- Understanding of the UK research environment, through experience of working for a funding body and/or recognised research environment
- Accuracy and excellent attention to detail, with demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to interpret and explain complex information, including financial information, in a clear and concise manner
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to be able to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with key internal and external personnel
What the job involves
- Reports to: Governance and Research Finance Lead
- This is one of three Senior Governance and Finance roles that have recently been created in the Research Operations team
- The Research Operations team at Cancer Research UK (CRUK) sits within the Research & Innovation directorate and plays a vital role in supporting the organisation’s mission to beat cancer by ensuring the smooth administration of research funding
- Research Operations are responsible for managing the full lifecycle of research grants, from application through to award and reconciliation, whilst also ensuring CRUK has assurance that all organisations we fund are compliant with policies, regulations and governance standards
- Overall, the team works closely with researchers, research offices, finance teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure that CRUK’s funding supports high-quality cancer research in an efficient and effective manner
- In this role you will be responsible for the management of all CRUK’s post-award processes, supporting the development, implementation and monitoring of research funding policies and associated governance structures related to funding activities
- You will work with the Research Governance & Finance Lead to coordinate activities, forming strong working relationships with teams across R&I to support the effective and proper delivery of funding processes
- As long as you can demonstrate solid knowledge of the end to end research grant funding process as well as an understanding of the UK research environment then we would love to hear from you
- Manage all post award grant processes, carrying out grant reconciliations, audit and other assurance processes
- Working closely with the finance team to ensure our post award processes run efficiently and in accordance with CRUK policies and procedures
- Drive the development of new or amended research funding policies
- Work across R&I to implement and monitor CRUK’s funding policies and governance structures; ensuring proper conduct of funding activity
- Deliver projects in collaboration with teams across R&I, providing grants management and research governance expertise
- Provide expert advice in relation to research policy, grant conditions and any special conditions, developing and maintaining strong relationships across R&I such as with R&I Legal and the Research Funding teams
- Support the delivery of new funding schemes and strategic initiatives, supporting the operational development of new research partnerships and funding structures
- Provide relevant insights to the Senior Research Grants Managers (Pre-Award) to inform operational processes; acting as subject matter experts in funding process and ensuring consistent approaches across the portfolio
- Work with Host Institutions to ensure CRUK grants are managed efficiently and effectively and funding policies are adhered to
- Any other duties commensurate with the role as required by the Research Governance & Finance Lead
Application process
- Recruitment process: Competency based interview via Microsoft Teams
- Interview date: 8 May 2025
- CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been longstanding pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing - Health and wellbeing are important to us. We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it. We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it
- We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- UK-wide savings - Our staff have access to a wide range of discounts, benefits and cashback deals to support you with your financial wellbeing, through our Rewards platform. We offer an online savings and discounts portal covering many widely recognised retailers and brands from electronics, groceries, home and leisure, holidays and more
- Cancer Research UK staff can take advantage of savings through a cycle to work scheme, or an interest free loan to help spread the cost of travel season tickets. Staff also enjoy great benefits in and around our head office in Stratford, London with deals at local shops, bars and restaurants
- Income Protection and Life Assurance - We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment
- Flexible Working - We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests. We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours
- We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average
- Annual Leave - For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly. On top of this, you can choose to buy up to 1 week’s additional holiday each year
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Previously Non-Executive Director of NHS England for 4 years, and Chief Executive of the MS Society for 5 years.
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