Management Accountant, Cancer Research
£36-45k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford )
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£36-45k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Part-qualified accountant (or by experience)
- Experience of management accounting, financial planning and modelling
- Shows dedication and accountability. Can set and meet deadlines while maintaining strong attention to detail and effectively managing expectations
- Question what you and the wider team are doing and strive for continuous improvement
- Strong excel skills and confidence with data manipulation, has previously worked with large, complex data sets and multiple systems
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate well and build strong and collaborative relationships
- Become a key finance point of contact for your specified Directorate areas providing support and developing levels of financial management awareness
What the job involves
- Reports to Senior Finance Manager/Senior Management Accountant
- Own and deliver timely, high quality and accurate management accounts (or other business critical reports) for your specified business areas
- Work with other members of your finance team, and budget holders to understand major variances to plan/prior years
- Work closely with the finance analysts and budget holders in your specified areas to identify and process transactions needed to ensure accounts are complete and correct
- Be a key finance point of contact for your specified areas, ensuring appropriate financial controls are being adhered to, challenging and offering solutions to stakeholders as appropriate
- Identify and implement improvements and efficiencies in management accounting processes
- Support the year end audit and production of the annual report, accounts and analysis, ensuring accounts are correct for your areas and supporting specific notes to the accounts and audit queries as required
- Support the financial planning, budget and forecasting process, for example by building budgeting/forecasting tools and templates and producing analysis
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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