Finance Partner

Finance Partner

Posted 2 days ago by Macmillan Cancer Support

£42,500 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom

Summary: The Finance Partner role at Macmillan is a fixed-term contract until September 2026, focusing on providing financial and business support to departments within the Communities and System Partnerships division. The position requires excellent relationship-building and communication skills to explain financial concepts to non-financial colleagues. The successful candidate will monitor budgets, forecast expenditures, and review management accounts while collaborating with a team of finance professionals. This role offers flexible working arrangements and a range of employee benefits.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide finance and business support to Heads of Department and their teams.
  • Monitor budgets for grants awarded to external partners.
  • Forecast full year expenditure and maintain updated spending views.
  • Review monthly management accounts to identify and investigate variances.
  • Collaborate mainly online with a Senior Finance Business Partner and other Finance Partners.
  • Participate in quarterly face-to-face finance team meetings in London.

Key Skills:

  • Previous experience in finance partnering.
  • Technical finance knowledge.
  • Business partnering skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel with experience in financial analysis of large data sets.

Salary (Rate): £42,500.00 yearly

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Finance

Detailed Description From Employer:

Finance Partner Fixed Term Contract until September 2026 Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours Location Split between home and Macmillan office Salary Range £38,500 - £42,500 About us At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role Do you have excellent relationship building and communication skills that enable you to explain financial concepts to non-financial colleagues? Those colleagues need you! We are looking for an experienced Finance Partner to provide family leave cover until September 2026. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a well established team, providing finance and business support to Heads of Department within our Communities and System Partnerships division, and their teams. You will be monitoring the budget that the teams invest in grants that are awarded to the external partners with whom Macmillan works to support people living with cancer. This investment funds established roles such as Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialists and Macmillan Support Workers, as well as new, innovative ways to reach minority groups in the community or to lead whole system change for cancer care. You will be working with the teams to accurately forecast their full year expenditure, maintain the latest view of their spend for the year and review the monthly management accounts to highlight and investigate variances. You will work closely with a Senior Finance Business Partner and other Finance Partners mainly online and through occasional in person get-togethers. Wider Finance team meetings are held face to face quarterly in London.

About you The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience: Previous experience in finance partnering Technical finance knowledge Business partnering skills – building and maintaining relationships and influencing across a variety of stakeholders Good Microsoft Excel skills with experience in financial analysis on large data sets In return, we offer a range of benefits including: 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days Pension matched up to 7.5% 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more Recruitment Process Application deadline: Wednesday 25th June 2025 To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.