Finance Business Partner (Research Infrastructure)

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, London

Short summary

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to put their expertise at the heart of world-leading biomedical research. 

You’ll partner directly with the Crick’s Scientific Platforms, technology and research infrastructure teams – the experts providing the cutting-edge equipment, technology and specialist capabilities that enable our scientists to do their best work.

Key Responsibilities 

These include but are not limited to:

• Leading budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning across a portfolio of scientific and research infrastructure teams.
• Partnering with senior scientific and operational leaders to shape investment and resource decisions.
• Building financial models and turning complex data into clear, actionable insight.
• Supporting investment decisions, including specialist scientific equipment and workforce planning
• Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, value for money and financial performance.
• Using data and technology to improve forecasting, reporting and how we work.

About you

You will have:  

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with experience in FP&A, commercial finance or finance business partnering.*
• Strong experience across budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and performance analysis.*
• A confident and credible business partner who can build trusted relationships and influence senior stakeholders.*
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn financial data into meaningful insight for non-finance audiences.
• Proactive, organised and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a complex environment.
• Experience driving change or improving finance processes.
• An interest in using your finance expertise to support world-leading biomedical research.

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 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 to 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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