Finance Business Partner

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.  

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.  

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.  

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our team.  

Where in Wellcome will I be working?  

You will be working in the Commercial Finance Team ensuring financial performance considerations and measures are fully incorporated into delivery of Wellcome’s mission reporting to a Commercial Finance Manager. 

This role is part of the Commercial Finance, Planning and Analysis Team, who provide business partnering across the organisation to enable effective decision making, manage the financial planning process as well as producing analysis and reporting for the Executive Leadership Team, Board of Governors and to each area of the organisation.

What will I be doing?  

Your role will partner with specific stakeholder groups, and will require you to draw on Commercial Finance experience to provide valuable information and challenge to help enable effective decision making. You must be comfortable working with ambiguity and developing your own ideas but able to draw in various stakeholder input at the right time.

As a Finance Business Partner , you will :  

• Build strong partnership relationships with your stakeholders by challenging and supporting the organisation to develop robust project plans with suitable budgets, milestones and deliverables

• Provide relevant financial analysis in order to support and improve qualitative decisions, through insightful, relevant business and financial reporting as well as deliver quality planning

• Undertake financial due diligence on institutions applying for funding. Monitor risk associated with existing awards and proposed mitigation actions where appropriate/required and ensure that appropriate financial controls are in place and operative to provide assurance on financial activity both within Wellcome and for relevant third parties.

• Champion process improvements either through identifying and proposing areas for improvement

• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.  

Is this job for me?   

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring financial performance considerations and control measures are fully incorporated into the delivery of Wellcome’s mission. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is comfortable with ambiguity, and possesses excellent stakeholder management skills.

We are looking for someone who:  

• Has an accountancy qualification ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent

• Experience working in a core accounting role, specifically month-end oriented as well as providing management accounting advice

• Business partnering experience and able to support and develop great stakeholders’ relationships

• Ability to manage own workload with focus on delivery; as well as to work on their own or as part of a multi-functional team

• Comfortable working with ambiguity and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities.

• Good understanding of financial risk management

• Advanced in Excel and intermediate PowerPoint and Word skills

Interview dates: 19/04, 22/04 and 23/04

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Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days working either remotely or in the office. 

From 1st September 2024 we will move to 3 days in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office. 

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do  

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at jobs@wellcome.org.  

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is ‘spent’.  

For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see this UK Government Guidance. You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here. You can view our Privacy Statement here. 

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