Finance Business Partner

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll work closely with Directors and Department Heads, helping them understand their financial needs, offering advice on best practices, and providing insights or challenges when necessary. You'll manage and prepare financial reports, including forecasts, budgets, Board KPIs, and management accounts, giving guidance and recommendations where needed.

You'll be a supportive "critical friend" to our programmes, offering advice on finance and procurement, and actively contributing to new projects to establish strong processes. By supporting various programmes, you'll keep an eye on budgets and forecasts, making sure budget holders have the tools they need to monitor their spending. This includes preparing templates, leading training sessions, and responding to any business needs.

Your role will focus on continuously improving business partnering processes that affect our financial reporting and monitoring, always looking for new ways to share business information across teams.

You'll also provide ongoing training and support to budget holders, ensuring compliance with our policies. You'll champion innovation, continuous improvement, and a focus on customer and user engagement for budget holders and key stakeholders.

We're looking for a candidate with a recognised professional qualification (CIMA &/or ACCA preferred) with demonstrable experience. Someone who has a proven record of process development, driving improvement and has proven experience of preparing financial information (e.g., management accounts).

You'll be able to problem solve and work positively and flexibly to deliver results. With knowledge of procurement processes and commercial contracts, you'll be able to take the initiative, identify additional tasks that need to be done and work independently. Have excellent analytical skills and proven record of preparing financial information for non-finance colleagues.

You'll be able to provide insight on complex financial information in a simple way and proactive manner, building on and managing professional relationships at all levels with excellent communication skills. Working in a changing environment, you'll have a proven experience of robust time management and can convey sometimes difficult messages.

You'll be customer-focused, innovative and flexible, keeping our values at the front of everything that you do., Please address the core/essential skills, experience and competencies required using real examples where possible and tell us in what ways you are a good match for the role.

This provides you with a great opportunity to showcase your knowledge, skills and experiences with the most important aspects of this role which will be used in reviewing and shortlisting applications:

+ Professional accountant qualification i.e. CIMA, ACCA or ACA accreditation (or any suitable recognised equivalent).

+ Proven record of preparing financial information for non-finance colleagues and experience in process development and driving improvement.

+ Strong problem-solving abilities with a track record of identifying issues and implementing effective solutions in a financial context.

+ Demonstrated ability to use financial software and tools effectively, including advanced Excel skills and familiarity with financial reporting systems.

+ Proven ability to adapt to changing environments and manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men's health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition - to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We're blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you'll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

What we offer

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We'll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

+ Generous leave entitlements that increase with service

+ One 'development day' a month to use for training or personal development

+ Enhanced contributory pension scheme

+ Life insurance and group income protection

+ Health Cash Plan

+ Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme

+ Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts

+ Loans for season tickets or cycles

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

At Prostate Cancer UK, we believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to building a strong and innovative workplace, that represents, and can advocate for, the communities we support. It's our ambition to become an anti-racist organisation, and our mission to advance racial equity in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

We're incredibly proud of our new Black Men's Racial Health Equity Campaign, and our inclusive learning journey. We know that reaching marginalised communities that need us most, particularly Black men who are at a higher risk of prostate cancer, starts with better representation in our organisation. Therefore, we're particularly interested in applications from those from marginalised and vulnerable communities. This will help us create an environment of inclusion where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, where personal qualities are as important as professional experience, and our people feel seen and heard.

Our people networks

We're continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:

+ Pride - A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues - and our allies - can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people

+ Mind & Body - Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long-term illness

+ Multicultural - Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

Wellbeing and hybrid working

Our hybrid working approach combines the best of flexible working - a positive work/life balance, inclusive and accessible platforms, and online information at our fingertips. We understand that everyone has different needs, and we strive to create opportunities for relationship building, collaboration and social time.

Each of our teams has a team agreement outlining when and how often we're expected to be in our London Bridge office. We're very welcome to work there more frequently. Office time is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs.

For this role, we would expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office 10 days per month.