Finance Operations Coordinator, Francis Crick
£30-34.5k
Biomedical research institute
Job no longer available
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£30-34.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- While you don’t need to be a fully or partially qualified accountant, you will need to be detail-oriented, proactive, and confident managing multiple tasks independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience of working in an Accounts Payable function, with a proven track record in a similar, high volume processing role
- Good communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral, able to engage with people at all levels both internally and externally
- Ability to work accurately with attention to detail, multi-task and meet tight deadlines. Good organisational and problem-solving skills
- A good team worker, willing to be flexible and take on a range of activities and looking to learn and develop within the role
- Highly IT literate with advance MS Office skills
What the job involves
- Reports to: Vendusa Harshan
- Working pattern: Monday – Friday. This is a full time, 8 months fixed term contract on the Crick terms and conditions of employment
- The position of Finance Operations Co-ordinator is a key role in the Finance Operations team, part of the Finance Operations team
- Your main responsibility will be to process and pay supplier invoices received by the Crick, ensuring that payments to suppliers are made promptly whilst also ensuring that all paid invoices meet the organisation’s governance requirements
- You’ll have the opportunity to develop your finance knowledge by getting involved in other tasks within the team, such as processing customer sales invoices ensuring prompt delivery to Crick customers and subsequent credit control to ensure payment is received within terms, as well as processing tasks including expense claims and supplier & customer setup validations
- Collaboration is key to the Crick, and this role has a strong emphasis on customer service and building strong relationships. You’ll be working closely with colleagues in science and other Operations teams, as you will often be working together to resolve queries effectively and efficiently
- Your ability to take initiative and manage your workload effectively will be key to supporting the overall success of the Finance function
- Registering high volumes of purchase invoices (circa 5,000 per month), matching to purchase orders and checking the accuracy of the invoice content and coding
- Reviewing of staff expense claims in line with the organisation’s Travel & Expenses Policy
- Checking and registering non-staff expense claims for payment and one-off payments
- Reconciliation of accounts to supplier statements
- Providing first line support for all Accounts Payable queries, ensuring timely resolution and communication
- Prepare BACS payments and ensure all remittance advice documents are sent out correctly, that rejections are dealt with and that items on hold are followed up
Application process
- Closing Date: 30/Sept/2025 23.59 GMT
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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