Finance Business Partner, Francis Crick
Research Infrastructure
£50-57k
Biomedical research institute
Posted today
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Posted today
£50-57k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with experience in FP&A, commercial finance or finance business partnering
- Strong experience across budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and performance analysis
- A confident and credible business partner who can build trusted relationships and influence senior stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn financial data into meaningful insight for non-finance audiences
- Proactive, organised and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a complex environment
- Experience driving change or improving finance processes
- An interest in using your finance expertise to support world-leading biomedical research
Desirable
- Experience within a scientific, research or similarly complex environment
- Experience with Workday Financial Management, Adaptive Planning, Power BI or similar tools
What the job involves
- This is a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to put their expertise at the heart of world-leading biomedical research. You’ll partner directly with the Crick’s Scientific Platforms, technology and research infrastructure teams—the experts providing the cutting-edge equipment, technology and specialist capabilities that enable our scientists to do their best work. As their trusted finance partner, you’ll help shape decisions around investment, people and resources, bringing financial insight to everything from long-term planning to investment in specialist scientific equipment. It’s a highly visible role where your work will directly support the Crick’s mission to make discoveries about human health and disease
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning across a portfolio of scientific and research infrastructure teams
- Partner with senior scientific and operational leaders to shape investment and resource decisions
- Build financial models and turn complex data into clear, actionable insight
- Support investment decisions, including those involving specialist scientific equipment and workforce planning
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, value for money and financial performance
- Use data and technology to improve forecasting, reporting and ways of working
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, and it is the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
The institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022 and is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.3bn
GRANT
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
- Shopping discounts
Company HQ
Somers Town, London, UK
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.
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