Senior Finance Analyst, Cancer Research
£47-52k
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Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£47-52k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW or equivalent) or qualified by experience (QBE)
- Significant experience of complex financial planning, modelling, and reporting within a large, complex organisation
- Delivered cost and/ or income analysis and insights for a large P&L
- Built strong stakeholder relationships at all levels with a demonstrated ability to clearly present and explain financial information while identifying the key themes to provide insight and tell ‘the story’
- Highly numerate with an analytical and proactive approach to problem-solving a broad range of challenges
- Advanced Excel skills having previously worked with financial modelling and with large, complicated data sets
- Innovative and takes a step back and question what you and the wider team are doing to strive for continuous improvement in processes, approach, and outputs
What the job involves
- Reports to: Finance Manager (Fundraising Finance-Marketing and Relationship Management)
- We are looking for a qualified Senior Finance Analyst to join Cancer Research UK’s Fundraising Finance Team to deliver insightful reporting and financial planning for our Marketing & Supporter Engagement and Communities & Event Delivery business teams and products
- This role will own the financial reporting for a large and complex P&L with a combined cost of £62m+ which supports key income generating products that help fund our life-saving work such as Regular Giving, Legacy Giving, Events and Sports (including Race for Life and Facebook Challenges)
- You will support the Fundraising Finance Manager, Heads of, and budget holders with budgeting, forecasting, and producing complex analysis to enable effective decision-making about costs that deliver the charity’s fundraising income
- This will involve owning the financial planning for your P&L while playing a proactive, solutions-driven role in evolving and shaping more valuable cost analysis and insights to support business cases and commercial decisions
- Therefore, this is an exciting (and fulfilling) opportunity for you to directly support and influence the financial performance and cause-driven impact of Cancer Research UK’s Marketing, Supporter Engagement, Communities, and Events
- As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will play an important role in coaching and supporting more junior members of the team and Management Accountants, while collaborating with the wider finance team to guide on financial planning for your business areas
- If you are a qualified Finance Analyst looking for a supportive working environment where you’ll discover something new and develop every day while being surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are, then we would love for you to join our team
- Owning and delivering timely and insightful reporting for your specified business areas (Marketing & Relationship Management). This involves understanding what is needed to inform decision making while identifying and clearly communicating the impact on the future. -
- Supporting Heads of and budget holders with budgeting and forecasting. This will involve evolving and shaping insightful cost analysis to enable effective decision-making about costs that deliver fundraising income
- Using your expertise and experience to provide high-quality analysis and decision support to initiatives, projects, and business cases from any area of Cancer Research UK as requested by the finance leadership
- Analysing trends and performance, feeding findings into forecasts and long-term financial planning
- Producing analysis that turns data into insight, helping decision makers to understand the impact of their initiatives and decisions on the Charity's financial plan
- Coaching and supporting the management accountants on your team which involves allocating operational tasks
- Collaborating with other members of your team and the wider finance team to guide on financial planning (forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning) for your specific business areas
- Developing and providing income/expenditure modelling to support all financial planning while communicating clearly to enable the organisation to own and take responsibility for their plans
Application process
- Closing Date: 24 May 2026 23:59
- Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews
- Interview date: From the week commencing 1 June 2026
- Your interview will last for approximately one hour and will consist of questions relating to your motivation for the role and competency-based questions covering your experience of complex financial analysis/ modelling, relationship management and communication, implementing a change/ new approach and workload management
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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