Financial Reporting and Control Specialist, Cancer Research
£75-85k
1-2 days a week in office
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£75-85k
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
- CCAB or equivalent qualification
- Expert knowledge of accounting statute and standards, in particular as they apply to charities (including SORP/FRS102)
- Good knowledge of financial modelling using Microsoft Excel
- Solid experience of writing Board & Audit Committee technical financial papers
- Solid proven experience of being solely responsible for planning and delivery of year-end audit & the production of the annual accounts
- Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, able to interpret complex financial data objectively, delivering clarity and constructive challenge
- Ability to work within a matrix management structure is essential
- Experience of developing and leading a team of skilled qualified accountants, able to set clear vision & direction for the function, whilst ensuring excellent delivery and performance
What the job involves
- Manage and lead the annual external reporting process & consolidation, working closely with the auditors and other advisors
- Oversee the production & review of all finance papers for the Audit Committee and deputise for the Finance Director at the Audit Committee as required
- Ensure completion of regulatory returns pertaining to the statutory accounts, meeting all deadlines
- Ensure consistency of approach across financial reporting and management reporting to ensure clarity of reporting to all audiences and ensure Exec Board and Council have full insight into Group structures and interdependencies
- Responsible for the finance internal control framework of CRUK (Cancer Research UK) which ensures controls over fraud and other risk areas
- Ensure the production of timely balance sheet reconciliations for all accounts ensuring strong balance sheet controls are in place and items are cleared to the agreed service level
- Responsible for ensuring sufficient monitoring tools are in place to highlight and eliminate financial control weaknesses, working with the Financial Control manager
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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