Management Accountant, Cancer Research
£35-45k
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
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Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£35-45k
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Finalist or qualified accountant (or by experience)
- Management accounting background with experience owning and delivering accurate management accounts and month-end activities
- Supported in delivering year-end audit and producing annual accounts
- Strong Excel skills - comfortable manipulating data and working with large, complex data sets using multiple systems and Excel functions (e.g. VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Sumifs etc)
- This recruitment process will include an Excel test
- Can set and meet deadlines while maintaining strong attention to detail and effectively managing expectations
- Questions what you and the wider team are doing while striving for continuous improvement and strong financial controls
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and build strong, collaborative relationships with an interest in collaborating with Cancer Research Horzion’s Scientific Research & Innovation teams
What the job involves
- Reports to: Finance Manager (Management Accounting)
- Department: Chief Operating Office
- Cancer Research UK’s Finance team’s credibility and professionalism in handling money fundraised by public generosity is essential to the smooth running of our organisation, thus helping the charity reach our goal of beating cancer. This role will sit within our Core Purpose Finance team as the Management Accountant for our Cancer Research Horizons subsidiary
- We’re looking for a Management Accountant to take ownership of our Cancer Research Horizons accounts
- In this role, you will be responsible for owning the management accounts ensuring appropriate financial controls are in place
- You will collaborate closely with stakeholders while ensuring they have accurate management information to inform decision-making and ensure Horizon’s has the resources needed to deliver our life-saving research and treatments
- Therefore, you will play an essential role in the smooth financial operations and commercial decision-making of Horizons, ultimately helping to bring forward the day everybody can lead longer and better lives free from cancer
- If you are a finalist or qualified Management Accountant who has owned and delivered accurate management accounts and month-end activities, we’d love for you to join our mission
- Owning and delivering timely, high-quality, and accurate management accounts (or other business-critical reports) for our Cancer Research Horizons subsidiary
- Commenting on balance sheet variances and supporting the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team and stakeholders in interpreting management information, understanding major variances, and answering queries
- Collaborating closely with the Assistant Management Accountants and Finance Analysts in your specified areas to ensure monthly transactions (e.g. accruals, prepayments, and revenue recognition & recharges) are processed accurately and on time
- Identifying and implementing improvements and efficiencies in management accounting processes
- Supporting the year-end audit and accurately producing the annual report and accounts for your business areas. This will involve contributing notes to the accounts and handling audit queries as required
- Supporting Horizon’s Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process
- Monitoring and questioning any variances against the budget
- Being a key finance point of contact for your specified business areas ensuring appropriate financial controls are being adhered to while challenging and offering solutions to stakeholders as appropriate
Application process
- Closing date: 15 January 2025 23:55
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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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 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
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
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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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