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About the Role

This role will provide financial planning, analysis and coordination across Cancer Grand Challenges, working closely with the CGC team, leadership, and CRUK Finance. The role will serve as primary liaison to the CRUK Finance Team to support coordination of CGC financial management and reporting, and will provide analytical expertise across research, operational and partnership income finance.

Responsibilities

Support the calculation of grants for funded host institutions including direct and indirect costs and managing FX rates.
Input into the annual reforecasts of grants and maintain forward looking projections by host institution and funding stream.
Support with financial audit and reconciliation activity and data requests.
Support implementation of new research funding models with advice on finance and budgeting processes while coordinating financial inputs.
Maintain visibility and monitoring of increasingly complex funding flows into and out of CRUK related to grants and research finance.
Support oversight of all partnership financial arrangements to support reporting and reconciliation for partners.
Support the management of research funding matters related to the NCI.
Lead on operational income queries and operational finance processes for the National Cancer Institute and other partners.
Support financial review of partner contracts / agreements to identify risks, minimising exposure and ensuring value for money.
Support the Programme Manager on day to day management of CGC operational finance activities.
Support on the management, reporting and reconciliation of the CGC operational budget with a focus on working with the Leadership Team with tracking and reforecasting of operational budget.
Lead on management and tracking of non-research grant arrangements including with American Friends of Cancer Research.
Drive the streamlining and standardisation of financial processes across CGC.
Provide detailed inputs into planning cycles to build detail across the financial plans.
Maintain accuracy of underlying programme financial data.
Provide operational insight and data to inform decision-making.
Maintain bespoke management reporting in CGC team.

Requirements

Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
Excellent project management skills.
Experience in grants management would be beneficial and familiarity with relevant applications and systems.
Highly organised, able to set and work to challenging deadlines, and to hold others accountable to demanding deadlines.
Able to understand and handle complex financial information and problems.
Strong analytical skills – able to bring structure to complex problems, and extract key issues, and to present data in a clear and concise format.
Resource management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach and mentor others within a wider team.
Process design expertise, including implementing and evaluating new processes.
Understanding and experience of working within matrix management structures.
Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications and Office 360.
Willingness to travel within the UK, and internationally, as required.
Excited by and committed to the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative.
Willing to go above and beyond to ensure this new initiative delivers on its potential.
Demonstrate excellent self-awareness and understand personal impact.
Integrated into, and works well as part of a dynamic, evolving team based across different geographical locations.
Respond well to and embraces change and ambiguity.
Provide and receive feedback to enable individual and team development.
Self-starter able to perform independently, as well as part of a team.
Act as a role model for the team whilst demonstrating integrity and Cancer Grand Challenges brand values.
Can believe in and embody organisation values (Bold, Credible, Human, Together).
Must be eligible to work in the UK.
Not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Skills

Financial planning
Financial analysis
Financial coordination
Research finance
Operational finance
Partnership income finance
Grants management
Financial audit
Financial reconciliation
Budgeting
Financial reporting
Communication
Relationship management
Project management
Analytical skills
Resource management
Process design
Microsoft Office applications
Office 360

Location

Stratford, London

Work Type

Office-based
Full time

Experience Level

Experienced

Salary/Compensations

£50,000 - £56,000

Benefits

Generous benefits package
Wide range of career and personal development opportunities
High-quality tools
Policies and processes enable work-life balance
Positive career steps
Achieve personal wellbeing goals

About the Company

Cancer Research UK exists to beat cancer.
Cancer Grand Challenges is a new global cancer research partnership between Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the US National Cancer Institute.
Cancer Grand Challenges supports a global community of world-class, interdisciplinary research teams to come together, think differently and take on some of cancer’s toughest challenges, with the ultimate aim of transforming outcomes for people affected by cancer.
Founded by two of the largest funders of cancer research in the world – CRUK and the NCI – Cancer Grand Challenges has the power to create change.
The initiative is also supported by CRUK’s global coalition of partners and philanthropists who share our ambitions.
The unique partnership between CRUK and NCI has created an exciting opportunity to bring together our collective insight and expertise of CRUK and NCI and has enabled the initiative to scale significantly.
CRUK delivers Cancer Grand Challenges on behalf of the partners and continues to think ambitiously about ways to grow further and have greater impact.
Our mission is to empower the global cancer research community to come together, think differently and solve cancer’s toughest challenges, to transform outcomes for people affected by cancer.
To deliver on our mission, we focus on four core objectives: Lead a global debate to identify cancer’s most complex challenges, Make important and transformative discoveries, Accelerate the translation of discoveries for public and patient benefit, Build a global community and harness its collective power.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do: Bold, Credible, Human, Together.

Equal Opportunity

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
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.
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.