Senior Finance Manager, Francis Crick
£67.7-77.9k
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Biomedical research institute
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Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£67.7-77.9k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Are you a commercially minded finance professional who thrives on building strong, influential relationships and navigating complex environments?
- You’ll bring a strong financial background, but just as importantly, you’ll be collaborative, curious, and confident in building trusted relationships across a diverse organisation
- A qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience and a record in business partnering or FP&A in a complex organisation
- Familiar with using planning and analysis tools and systems (use of workday financials or adaptive insights is advantageous)
- Strong experience of developing insightful financial reporting to suit a range of stakeholders
- Able to demonstrate creative problem-solving ability based on analysis of complex data
- Experience delivering change and process improvement in a finance environment
- Experience of a research or a grant-funded organisation is beneficial
- If you’re passionate about making a difference, thrive on collaboration, and bring both strategic thinking and practical know-how, we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Reports to: Rachel Parr
- We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic Senior Finance Manager to join the Francis Crick Institute, a globally recognised centre for biomedical research and innovation. This is far more than a technical finance role; it's an opportunity to work at the heart of a purpose-led organisation, helping to shape the future of science
- You’ll have the presence to influence at senior levels, the courage to challenge the status quo, and the mindset to always be looking for ways to improve how we work
- Reporting to the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis and managing one Finance Analyst, you’ll lead on budgeting, forecasting, strategic insight and long-term planning for your business areas
- As a key business partner to senior leaders, you’ll play a vital role in helping them understand the financial impact of their decisions, ensuring we make the most of our resources in support of world-class science
- Support the development of long-term strategic financial plans and models that influence and support decision-making*
- Lead on the financial planning (budgeting, forecasting and long term planning), delivering clear budgets developed in partnership with divisional directors.*
- Supporting Crick leaders and the Head of FP&A in developing and delivering efficiency plans and maximising value for money
- Providing insightful management information (both regular and ad-hoc) to support effective decision making*
- Develop effective processes for reporting on budget, forecast and actuals, improving processes and data to enable more time for insight and decision support*
- Lead on the Crick’s capital planning process; supporting the development of capital portfolio plans and business cases to demonstrate value for money and best use of resources
- Identify and seek resolution to complex problems within area of accountability, explore new ideas and opportunities to drive improvements within the team
Application process
- Closing Date: 30/Jul/2025 23.59 GMT
- To be considered for the role, please share a cover letter and CV
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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