Business Operations Finance Officer, Cancer Research
12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
£27-31k
1-2 days a week in office
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£27-31k
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of good financial processes in a commercial environment, including purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash (POs, goods receipting, receivables and sales orders)
- Strong Excel skills, with experience of large, complex data sets and multiple systems
- Highly numerate with an analytical approach to problem solving
- Able to present and explain financial information clearly and pick out key issues
- Confident discussing complex financial data with a range of stakeholders
- Experience of managing revenue shares or income allocation is helpful
- Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
- Good relationship management, building strong, collaborative relationships
- Dedicated and accountable, able to set and meet deadlines and manage expectations
- Open to new ideas and solution-focused
- Respectful and professional
- Committed to CRH's vision and to celebrating equality and diversity in all decisions
- Able to believe in and embody the organisation’s values: Bold, Credible, Human and Together
Desirable
- Knowledge of Unit 4 Business World
- Knowledge of the technology transfer database Minuet for financial processes
What the job involves
- You will be the main point of contact for financial business processes across the Commercial Partnerships department. The team commercialises cutting-edge innovations, creating pathways for drugs, biotech and AI to reach patients through technology transfer
- Raise purchase orders for Commercial Partnerships and make sure they comply with Procurement and Central Finance processes
- Carry out goods receipting promptly and accurately
- Manage receivables, including chasing and resolving outstanding invoices
- Raise sales orders and make sure income is recorded correctly
- Coordinate revenue shares with Finance, including preparing information and liaising with finance business partners and management accountants
- Manage the business processes that enable payments and invoices across Commercial Partnerships
- Work with finance business partners and management accountants to make sure accounts are complete and correct
- Keep Commercial Partnerships finance processes fit for purpose and well documented, and contribute to process improvements and finance-related business change projects
- Support senior business leaders with financial reporting, analysis and management information as needed
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 long-standing 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 HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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