Financial Analysis & Planning Manager, Francis Crick
£55.2-63.5k
Biomedical research institute
Be an early applicant
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£55.2-63.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- An accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) followed by strong FP&A/finance partnering experience.*
- Strong communication skills with high emotional intelligence and the ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels.*
- Evidence of strong financial modelling and analysis skills and be confident with financial planning tools such as Adaptive Planning.*
- A collaborative team player with creative problem-solving abilities and a clear connection to the Crick’s mission
- A track record of improving processes to drive better insight.*
Desirable
- Experience in research or grant-funded environments
- Knowledge of Workday Finance or Cloud planning tools
What the job involves
- Reports to: Rachel Parr - Head of Financial Planning & Analysis
- The postholder will lead budgeting, forecasting and management information for our operations departments, manage an FP&A Assistant Manager, and partner with budget holders to drive effective financial management and support strategic decision making
- You’ll also play a key role in managing our building lifecycle capital investment programme, developing business cases and reporting for funders
- Leading annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting for key operational teams, producing clear, robust financial plans in collaboration with budget holders
- Supporting financial management of building lifecycle investments, including business case development and reporting for funders
- Building trusted, effective partnerships with stakeholders across the Crick
- Ensuring accurate, timely month and year end processes and deliver insightful management reporting
- Driving process and data improvements to unlock better insight and decision support
- Contributing to strategic projects alongside the Head of FP&A
- Contact term: This is a full-time or part-time (0.8 FTE) permanent position on Crick terms and conditions of employment
Application process
- Please submit both a CV and a covering letter. In your covering letter, we ask that you also respond to the following question:
- “Give an example of a time you improved a process while successfully balancing multiple priorities. What did you do, and what was the outcome?”
- Application deadline: Sunday 4th January 2026
- Closing Date: 04/Jan/2026 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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