Senior Financial Reporting Accountant

SENIOR FINANCIAL REPORTING ACCOUNTANT

Salary: £54,000 - £59,000

Reports to: Head of Financial Reporting

Department: Chief Operating Office

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Employment type: Permanent

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Closing date: Sunday 27 October 2024, 23:55

Interview date: First stage w/c 4 November, second stage w/c 11 November

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

We are looking for a dedicated Senior Financial Accountant to join Cancer Research UK's Financial Reporting team. This role will be leading on financial reporting by ensuring the completion of CRUK's external reporting requirements, specifically focusing on subsidiaries. This is a chance for someone with group accounting experience either as a Financial Accountant or Financial Controller to gain exposure to a large complex organisation. We are open to a wide range of backgrounds including charity or commercial sector.

What will I be doing?

• Responsible for producing the statutory annual report and accounts for the CRUK group

• Responsible for producing subsidiary and dormant entity statutory accounts

• Responsible for producing various financial data for internal and external publications

• Work closely with the wider finance team in the production of internal financial reporting

• Responsible for reporting Restricted Funds in conjunction with the R&I team

• Act as a key point of contact for external and internal auditors

• Use your expertise and experience to provide high quality financial accounting support to both finance colleagues and senior management, enabling decision makers to understand the impact of initiatives and decisions

• Responsible for assessing the impact of new accounting standards and leading projects to implement them

• Proactively partner the wider finance team to become the first point of call when planning significant agreements and transactions. Build their technical knowledge and ensure they understand changes to accounting and regulatory frameworks and the impact on the organisation's financial plan.

• This is a 2 FTEs role with a rotation of responsibilities in place every few years.

What skills are you looking for?

• Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)

• Demonstrable history of producing statutory accounts and reporting within a large organisation (ideally within a group environment)

• Experience in year-end audits having delivered audited accounts and reports whilst managing relationships with external auditors

• Strong technical knowledge with an understanding of accounting standards

• Build strong stakeholder relationships with the ability to communicate complex financial information to internal and external stakeholders

• Medium/Advanced excel skills and has previously worked with large, complicated data sets and multiple systems (V-look ups, Pivot Tables, Macros)

• Experience of using Agresso is desirable but not essential.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

Please note that, Internally, this role is known as Senior Financial Accountant.