Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Contract: Permanent, Full Time/Part Time (0.8)

Short summary

The FP&A Manager plays a central role in delivering high-quality financial insight across the Francis Crick Institute. You will lead budgeting, forecasting and management reporting for key operational areas, working closely with budget holders to support effective decision-making. Alongside this, you’ll oversee an FP&A Assistant Manager and contribute to the financial management of the Crick’s building lifecycle capital investment programme, including business cases and funder reporting.

This role is pivotal in strengthening financial planning across the organisation, driving process improvements, enhancing data quality and supporting strategic projects. You’ll be a trusted partner to stakeholders across the institute, ensuring financial information is accurate, timely and actionable.

Key Responsibilities

These include but are not limited to:

• Leading annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting cycles, producing clear and robust financial plans in partnership with operational teams.
• Supporting lifecycle capital investment planning, developing business cases and preparing reporting for funders.
• Building strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders and providing financial insight to inform strategic decisions.
• Delivering accurate month-end and year-end processes and producing high-quality management reporting.
• Driving improvements in processes, systems and data to enhance financial planning and analysis.
• Contributing to institute-wide strategic projects alongside the Head of FP&A.

About you

You will have: 

• A recognised accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with strong FP&A or finance partnering experience.*
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-influencing skills, with high emotional intelligence.*
• Strong financial modelling and analytical capabilities, with confidence using financial planning tools such as Adaptive Planning.*
• A collaborative, solutions-focused approach, creative problem-solving skills and clear alignment with the Crick’s mission.
• A proven track record of improving financial processes to deliver better insight.*

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

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