Financial Planning & Analysis Assistant Manager, Francis Crick
Finance Business Partner
£47.2-54.3k
Biomedical research institute
Be an early applicant
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£47.2-54.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified accountant (CCAB or equivalent) or finalist with strong FP&A experience in a complex organisation.*
- Confident finance partner with high emotional intelligence and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.*
- Skilled in turning financial data into clear, insightful reporting for non-finance audiences
- Organised and proactive, able to manage multiple priorities and drive continuous improvement
- Motivated by the Crick’s mission and excited to support world-class research
- Proven track record of delivering change and improving finance processes
Desirable
- Experience in a research or grant-funded environment
- Familiarity with Workday Finance or cloud-based planning tools (e.g. Adaptive Planning)
What the job involves
- Reports to: Jennifer Lofthouse
- Reporting to: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
- Contact term: This is a full-time permanent position on Crick terms and conditions of employment
- The FP&A Assistant Manager delivers clear, high-quality financial insight to support planning and decision-making across the Crick. Working closely with research Group Leaders, you’ll lead financial planning, analysis and decision support for a portfolio of world-class research teams, helping bridge finance and science
- As part of a small FP&A team, you’ll build strong relationships, strengthen finance business partnering and provide the insight needed to support the Crick’s research strategy
- Owning financial planning (budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning) for a portfolio of research groups, working closely with Group Leaders and the Post-Award Grants team
- Supporting Crick Leaders and the FP&A Manager to deliver efficiency plans and maximise value for money
- Building strong trusted stakeholder relationships and clearly communicating the financial impact of decisions
- Producing clear, insightful management information to support effective decision-making
- Improving financial reporting processes and data quality to increase focus on insight and decision support
- Identifying and resolving complex issues, driving continuous improvement across the team
Application process
- Closing Date: 27/Jan/2026 23.59 GMT
- Please submit both a CV and a covering letter within your application
- Please note you must meet the essential criteria listed within the Role Profile, to have your application reviewed
- We reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any given time due to the number of applications received
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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