Finance Business Partner

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our team. You will be working in the Commercial Finance Team ensuring financial performance considerations and measures are fully incorporated into delivery of Wellcome’s mission reporting to a Commercial Finance Manager. This role is part of the Commercial Finance, Planning and Analysis Team, who provide business partnering across the organisation to enable effective decision making, manage the financial planning process as well as producing analysis and reporting for the Executive Leadership Team, Board of Governors and to each area of the organisation.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will build strong partnership relationships with your stakeholders by challenging and supporting the organisation to develop robust project plans with suitable budgets, milestones and deliverables. You will provide relevant financial analysis in order to support and improve qualitative decisions, through insightful, relevant business and financial reporting as well as deliver quality planning. You will undertake financial due diligence on institutions applying for funding. Monitor risk associated with existing awards and proposed mitigation actions where appropriate/required and ensure that appropriate financial controls are in place and operative to provide assurance on financial activity both within Wellcome and for relevant third parties.

We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic finance team. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring financial performance considerations and control measures are fully incorporated into the delivery of Wellcome’s mission. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is comfortable with ambiguity, and possesses excellent stakeholder management skills.

We are looking for someone who has an accountancy qualification ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent, experience working in a core accounting role, specifically month-end oriented as well as providing management accounting advice, business partnering experience and able to support and develop great stakeholders’ relationships, ability to manage own workload with focus on delivery; as well as to work on their own or as part of a multi-functional team, comfortable working with ambiguity and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities, and advanced in Excel and intermediate PowerPoint and Word skills.

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is ‘spent’.