Finance Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Robertson Bell

Robertson Bell

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Francis Crick Institute is partnering exclusively with Robertson Bell to recruit a Finance Analyst on a permanent full time basis.

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical research centre in London, that has a partnership with Cancer Research UK,Imperial College London, King's College London, the Medical Research Council, University College London and the Welcome Trust.

In this key charity wide role, you'll play a key supporting role for all of the organisations' commercial relationships with partners co-located in the building, as well as supporting new and innovative commercial partnerships in the future.

This role isalso responsible for financial modelling all opportunities to enhance the Crick's commercial position.

The key responsibilities will be:

Coordinating the commercial project group, overseeing the ongoing operational management of existing commercial arrangements including responsibility for the Crick's Trading Company invoicing.
Strong engagement with teams across the organisation including particularly Translation and Legal teams that are working on commercial proposals and negotiations, providing financial, tax and commercial expertise into the discussions.
Financially modelling proposed business cases including various scenarios thereof, ensuring engagement and buyin regarding the key assumptions from the relevant stakeholders across the wider organisation.
Completion of benchmarking and market analysis to ensure understanding of the market landscape and an external reference point for pricing and/or commercial terms proposed.
Preparation of reports and proposals to leadership to facilitate discussions and decisionmaking around commercial decisions, including preparation for monthly Finance Committee meetings.
Critically reviewing draft contracts and commercial arrangements and flagging potential concerns to ensure contracts are worded appropriately to manage commercial risk.
Ensuring internal governance processes are followed, that the appropriate people are engaged and that arrangements are approved in line with delegated authority levels.
Proactive identification of commercial opportunities.

The organisation:

Our mission is discovery without boundaries; to carry out world-class discovery research to understand how living things work and to drive benefits for human health.

Be a partqualified or qualified accountant.
Have strong communication skills with proven experience communicating with nonfinancial stakeholders.
Be able to show experience with budgeting and forecasting.
Have experience with financial modelling as an advantage.

**This opportunity will be based at their London office which is a short walk from Kings Cross station and offers flexible hybrid working arrangement along with fantastic employee benefits.