Senior Finance Analyst

Senior Finance Analyst

£47,000 - £52,000

Reports to: Finance Manager (Fundraising Finance-Marketing and Relationship Management)

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews

Interview date: From the week commencing 1 June 2026

Closing Date: 24 May :59.

We are looking for a qualified Senior Finance Analyst to join Cancer Research UK's Fundraising Finance Team to deliver insightful reporting and financial planning for our Marketing & Supporter Engagement and Communities & Event Delivery business teams and products.

This role will own the financial reporting for a large and complex P&L with a combined cost of £62m+ which supports key income generating products that help fund our life-saving work such as Regular Giving, Legacy Giving, Events and Sports (including Race for Life and Facebook Challenges).

You will support the Fundraising Finance Manager, Heads of, and budget holders with budgeting, forecasting, and producing complex analysis to enable effective decision-making about costs that deliver the charity's fundraising income. This will involve owning the financial planning for your P&L while playing a proactive, solutions-driven role in evolving and shaping more valuable cost analysis and insights to support business cases and commercial decisions. Therefore, this is an exciting (and fulfilling) opportunity for you to directly support and influence the financial performance and cause-driven impact of Cancer Research UK's Marketing, Supporter Engagement, Communities, and Events.

As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will play an important role in coaching and supporting more junior members of the team and Management Accountants, while collaborating with the wider finance team to guide on financial planning for your business areas. If you are a qualified Finance Analyst looking for a supportive working environment where you'll discover something new and develop every day while being surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are, then we would love for you to join our team.

What will I be doing?

• Owning and delivering timely and insightful reporting for your specified business areas (Marketing & Relationship Management). This involves understanding what is needed to inform decision making while identifying and clearly communicating the impact on the future. -
• Supporting Heads of and budget holders with budgeting and forecasting. This will involve evolving and shaping insightful cost analysis to enable effective decision-making about costs that deliver fundraising income.
• Using your expertise and experience to provide high-quality analysis and decision support to initiatives, projects, and business cases from any area of Cancer Research UK as requested by the finance leadership.
• Analysing trends and performance, feeding findings into forecasts and long-term financial planning
• Producing analysis that turns data into insight, helping decision makers to understand the impact of their initiatives and decisions on the Charity's financial plan.
• Coaching and supporting the management accountants on your team which involves allocating operational tasks.
• Collaborating with other members of your team and the wider finance team to guide on financial planning (forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning) for your specific business areas.
• Developing and providing income/expenditure modelling to support all financial planning while communicating clearly to enable the organisation to own and take responsibility for their plans

What skills will I need?

To be considered for this role, you must have the right to work in the UK as we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

• Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW or equivalent) or qualified by experience (QBE).
• Significant experience of complex financial planning, modelling, and reporting within a large, complex organisation.
• Delivered cost and/ or income analysis and insights for a large P&L.
• Built strong stakeholder relationships at all levels with a demonstrated ability to clearly present and explain financial information while identifying the key themes to provide insight and tell 'the story'.
• Highly numerate with an analytical and proactive approach to problem-solving a broad range of challenges.
• Advanced Excel skills having previously worked with financial modelling and with large, complicated data sets.
• Innovative and takes a step back and question what you and the wider team are doing to strive for continuous improvement in processes, approach, and outputs.

Your interview will last for approximately one hour and will consist of questions relating to your motivation for the role and competency-based questions covering your experience of complex financial analysis/ modelling, relationship management and communication, implementing a change/ new approach and workload management.