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finance manager Stratford, London, England

Cancer Research UK

Full Time Stratford, London, England 66465 - 55299 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

4,000 professionals, 0 days wasted, 1 incredible purpose.

FINANCE MANAGER (MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING)

£58,000 - £63,000

Reports to: Head of Finance

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: Fixed Term Contract 12 Months – Maternity Cover

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office) - We are open to a variety of different ways of working and would be open to discussing upon interview.

Closing date: 30 July 2023 23:55

Recruitment process: Competency Based Interview

Interview date: 4th August 2023

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

We are looking for a Finance Manager (Management Accountants) to join Cancer Research UK, to own and deliver timely management accounts for our Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement business area.

This is an exciting opportunity as you will be working within an area that provides our largest income stream. You will bring with you strong experience of relevant management and financial accounting processes and controls including an awareness of annual budget and forecasting cycles. Further to this you will demonstrate your ability to lead, coach and motivate a team of management accountants.

This is a great opportunity for a finance professional with great stakeholder management and influencing skills. You might be a Finance Manager or Finance Business Partner already looking to gain experience in the not-for-profit sector. Cancer Research UK is a large, complex organisation, with nearly 600 shops, an events team delivering 570 events a year, a large operational organisation of around 4,000 people, and a research organisation with five labourites, so there are lots of opportunities to progress and gain experience within various areas of finance, working across a variety of business areas.

In a supportive working environment, you’ll discover something new every day, whether it’s a new connection, a new method of engagement or a talent you never knew you had. You’ll also be surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are.

What will I be doing?

Own and deliver timely, high quality and accurate management accounts (or other business critical reports) for your specified business areas
Work with other members of your finance team and budget holders to understand major variances to plan/prior years. Ensure budget holders understand and take responsibility for performance and variances to the financial plan
Work closely with other members of your finance team and budget holders in your specified areas to identify and process transactions needed to ensure accounts are complete and correct
Take ownership for a range of accounting adjustments as required (including stock, fixed assets or investments)
Be a key finance point of contact for your specified areas, ensuring appropriate financial controls are being adhered to, challenging and offering solutions to stakeholders as appropriate
Support the year end audit and production of the annual report and accounts, ensuring accuracy and supporting specific notes to the accounts and audit queries as required.
Support the financial planning process, for example building budgeting/forecasting tools and templates, ensuring budget holders are appropriately trained and take responsibility for plans

Line management and development of other management accountants within your team

What Skills will I need:

Qualified accountant (or by experience) with post-qualification experience
Experience of relevant management and financial accounting processes and controls including an awareness of annual budget and forecasting cycles
Experience of building, managing and evolving business partnering relationships at senior management level.
Ability to manage, coach and develop a team.
Demonstrates an analytical approach to problem solving a broad range of challenges
Delivers on complex assignments often involving ambiguity, can set and meet deadlines while maintaining strong attention to detail and effectively managing expectations
Innovate, take a step back and question what you and the wider team are doing, strive for continuous improvement in processes, approach and outputs
Ability to clearly present and explain financial information, identifying the key themes to provide insight and tell ‘the story’.
Ability to influence a range of stakeholders, including Directors and Heads to deliver strong financial controls

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

For the full job description please contact

[email protected]

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

For more information on this career opportunity please

visit our website

or contact us at

[email protected]

There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner.

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you. We don’t expect everyone to meet all of the criteria listed.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at

[email protected]

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

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