Finance Business Partner responsible for budgeting, forecasting, long-term financial planning, management accounts, performance analysis, procurement support, restricted-income oversight, financial modelling, and investment appraisal. The role partners with senior leaders across research, services, and support functions, providing insight and constructive challenge. It also contributes to financial process improvements, controls, year-end activities, annual reporting, and wider finance projects.
Blood Cancer UK is exclusively partnering with Robertson Bell in its search for a new Finance Business Partner to join the team on a permanent basis. Blood Cancer UK is a national charity dedicated to beating blood cancer by funding world-class research, supporting those affected and campaigning for better treatments and care.
Reporting into the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, this Finance Business Partner role offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with senior leaders across a well-established and ambitious charity. You’ll work with teams across the charity’s research, services and support functions. You will take ownership of budgeting, forecasting and financial planning across a broad range of directorates, providing commercial insight and constructive challenge to influence key organisational decisions.
From supporting major procurement opportunities and modelling significant research investments to strengthening financial planning across the organisation, this is a genuinely varied role offering the opportunity to develop your strategic business partnering skills and the chance to make a real impact.
The organisation:
The organisation:
Blood cancer is the UK’s fifth most common cancer and its third biggest cancer killer. Since 1960, Blood Cancer UK has invested over £500 million in blood cancer research, transforming treatments and helping save lives. The charity’s work goes beyond funding research, providing vital information and support to people affected by blood cancer and their families, campaigning for change and helping improve access to new treatments and clinical trials.
There are more than 100 different types of blood cancer, and the organisation is determined to accelerate progress towards finding a cure for each of them. It is currently delivering an ambitious five-year strategy, which aims to treble its annual research funding by 2027/28, expand its services and strengthen international partnerships.
Applications are open until Sunday 29th November, with first stage interviews due to take place the week commencing 7th December. CVs will be under continuous review ahead of this date, so please submit your application today to avoid missing out on this opportunity to join Blood Cancer UK at such an exciting time in its growth.
Please submit all applications via: https://www.robertsonbell.co.uk/job/finance-business-partner-rb45827
Applications are open until Sunday 29th November, with first stage interviews due to take place the week commencing 7th December. CVs will be under continuous review ahead of this date, so please submit your application today to avoid missing out on this opportunity to join Blood Cancer UK at such an exciting time in its growth.
Please submit all applications via: https://www.robertsonbell.co.uk/job/finance-business-partner-rb45827
Key Responsibilities
The key duties of the Finance Business Partner will be as follows:
- Build strong relationships with senior leaders, directors and budget holders across allocated directorates, providing financial insight, constructive challenge and support with strategic decision-making.
- Lead the budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning processes for your allocated areas.
- Prepare and deliver monthly management accounts, providing clear performance analysis.
- Act as the finance lead for organisation-wide procurement and tender processes.
- Support the financial management of restricted income, including developing funding budgets, monitoring expenditure and preparing financial reports for donors.
- Work closely with research and services teams to ensure effective financial oversight of funded projects.
- Provide financial modelling and analysis to support investment decisions, business cases and wider organisational planning.
- Identify opportunities to improve financial systems, processes, reporting and controls.
- Contribute to wider finance team projects, year-end processes and preparation of the annual report
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
The successful candidate will have:
- A recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA).
- Experience working in a finance business partnering, management accounting or similar finance role, with exposure to budgeting, forecasting and financial performance analysis.
- Strong relationship management skills, with the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels and adapt your communication style to different audiences.
- The ability to interpret financial information, provide constructive challenge and translate complex data into practical recommendations that influence decision-making.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ideally with exposure to commercial decision-making, business cases, procurement or investment appraisals.
- Excellent Excel skills and a curious, proactive approach to improving financial processes, systems and ways of working.
Not-for-profit experience would be advantageous, although candidates from a commercial background will also be considered. This is an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified accountant who has already developed strong management accounting and stakeholder engagement skills and is looking to take the next step into a broader, more strategic Finance Business Partner position.
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HOW TO APPLYWe ask you to send us a CV and cover letter. In your cover letter, we'd like to know why you're interested in working with us at Blood Cancer UK. It's also helpful if you tell us why you think you are a great candidate for this role based on the skills, knowledge and expertise section above. Your cover letter doesn't have to be too long, 1-2 pages is ideal. Please don't add photos or graphics to your CV, as we use blind shortlisting at this stage of the process.Full details about our recruitment processes, including how we use blind shortlisting and what to expect at each stage of the process can be found on our website. Sometimes we close our vacancies early, usually because we have had a lot of great applicants, so we’d always encourage you to apply early rather than wait until the deadline.WHY WORK AT BLOOD CANCER UK?We're the 9th best charity in the UK to work for according to Best Companies 2021! We started because of Susan, we’ll get there because of you.Blood Cancer UK was started by one family who lost their daughter, Susan, to blood cancer, and that history and sense of family continues to shape who we are today. When you join Blood Cancer UK, you don’t just become an organisational employee – you become part of a collaborative community dedicated to funding research into beating blood cancer that includes some of the most inspiring people you’ll ever meet. And we’re not that far away from beating blood cancer. We’re confident we can do it within the next generation, and this makes us hugely ambitious and gives us a sense of real urgency. It also means we’re changing quickly as an organisation as we constantly challenge ourselves and strive to become more and more effective. This pace of change means working here isn’t for everyone. But if you’re excited by the chance to work in a fast-paced, agile and supportive environment with the focus and ambition to beat blood cancer this could be the place for you! We focus on results rather than time spent at a desk, so we deliver more for people affected by blood cancer.Blood Cancer UK offers the chance to work for and with people affected by blood cancer, and the opportunity to advance your career and develop your skillset whilst taking on exciting new challenges and making your mark. EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSIONWe are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity. Read our statement which reflects our strong drive to change in this area. To this end we would welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including minoritised communities, and applicants with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives. You can read some examples of how we can support you through the application and interview process here.
Blood Cancer UK London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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