Lead Finance Business Partner - Fundraising

We're the UK's specialist blood cancer charity and our vision is clear: we’re here to beat blood cancer. We fund world-class research; provide information and support to patients and their loved ones; and raise awareness of blood cancer.

The Finance directorate ensures Blood Cancer UK is financially sustainable, well-governed and equipped to make informed decisions in support of its mission through providing robust financial stewardship, strategic insights and rigorous risk and legal oversight.

The FP&A and Business Partnering team plays a key role in enabling strategic and operational decision-making by providing strategic financial insight across all directorates, delivering the organisation’s budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting.

You’ll play a central role in shaping how we invest in fundraising to drive sustainable income growth—balancing financial insight with innovation and ambition. You’ll act as a critical friend to the Director of Engagement and Deputy Director of Fundraising. Whether it's modelling the impact of potential investments, supporting funding bids with financial projections, or building a more effective budgeting process, you’ll have the opportunity to influence key decisions that directly support our charitable aims.

Office attendance is flexible and based on the requirements of the role. While there are no fixed rules, we expect an average of at least one day a week in the office, depending on business needs.

In your supporting statement (cover letter), please outline how you meet the specific requirements, skills, and experience set out in the job description and person specification. Your supporting statement doesn’t have to be too long—1 to 2 pages is ideal.

We'll conduct interviews as suitable candidates apply and we're ready to hire if we find the right person before the job ad closes

First stage interviews are expected to take place on week commencing 4th August with second stage interviews expected to take place on week commencing 11th August

Application DeadlineJuly 31, 2025DepartmentFinanceEmployment TypePermanentLocationLondon/HybridWorkplace typeHybridCompensation£55,000 - £60,000 / year

Key Responsibilities

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Partner with senior leaders in the directorate to provide financial insight and challenge, enabling informed decision-making and alignment with strategic goals.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes for the directorate to ensure accurate, sustainable financial plans that support delivery of organisational objectives.
• Develop advanced fundraising models— e.g. individual-giving income and attrition curves, pipeline-revenue projections, and actuarial legacy-income models—to generate reliable forecasts and steer strategic investment
• Develop and oversee restricted income reporting and processes to ensure donor and statutory compliance and integration with internal planning and reporting frameworks.
• Own and deliver monthly financial reporting for the directorate, providing timely insight and driving improvements to reporting through tools such as Power BI, SUN Q&A and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
• Monitor and analyse performance against budget to identify risks and opportunities and advise senior stakeholders on mitigations and investment decisions
• Improve financial systems, tools, processes and controls to increase efficiency, enhance data quality and strengthen financial insight across the directorate.
• Support year-end reporting and audit processes by preparing reconciliations and analysis to ensure accurate statutory reporting and audit readiness.
• Contribute to organisation-wide financial planning by supporting the Head of FP&A on cross-directorate projects, consolidated modelling and planning initiatives.

All employees at Blood Cancer UK promote the organisation’s vision, mission and core values and are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity. This includes attending and assisting at Blood Cancer UK events and activities as required, including occasional evening and weekend work. All employees are expected to follow Blood Cancer UK’s policies and procedures and do any reasonable thing required by their manager.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and performance reporting
• Knowledge of restricted income reporting, donor compliance, and statutory compliance including SORP requirements
• Familiarity with financial systems and reporting tools, including Power BI or similar
• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with up-to-date technical knowledge relevant to financial planning, reporting and charity compliance

Skills

• Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial data to non-finance stakeholders
• Advanced financial modelling and Excel skills, including complex scenario modelling to support specialised fundraising activities such as donor lifetime value analysis, acquisition ROI modelling, and legacy income forecasting
• Skilled in developing reporting tools, KPIs, and forecasting processes
• Proactive approach to problem-solving and process improvement

Experience

• Experience in senior finance business partnering roles, preferably within a fundraising or commercially driven team
• Demonstrated experience leading financial planning and reporting processes
• Proven ability to support strategic decision-making through financial insight
• Experience preparing funding submissions and restricted income reports in line with donor and statutory requirements
• Familiarity with SORP-compliant reporting and supporting external audit processes

About Blood Cancer UK

FLEXIBLE WORKING & OUR BENEFITS

We welcome conversations about part time working, job shares, and all forms of flexible working right from application stage. You can get in touch with us at [email protected] if you want to ask us anything about flexible working.

Benefits: We think our benefits are brilliant, and the majority start from day 1. These are just a few of them:

• 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme and Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, as well as study leave and a day off to move house
• Wellbeing is a priority for us, we offer a wide range of individual and team support in our Wellbeing Hub
• Our Academy is our in-house Continued Professional Development (CPD) learning and development programme, including an internal mentoring scheme. We have organisation-wide focus days, which are days set aside for you to focus on your own development, without being interrupted by emails and meetings.
• Cycle to work and season ticket loans
• Opportunity to take sabbaticals

You can find full details about our benefits on our website.

Location: Working agile means we changed from having a culture where people are expected to be in the office from 9am to 5pm to one where we’re much more focused on what they deliver. We've built a positive culture where autonomy, trust, wellbeing and flexibility allow us to recruit and retain the very best people.   We recognise that teams still need to come together regularly to develop relationships and strengthen collaborative working.   Therefore, for the majority of roles, your contractual place of work will be one of our offices. The expectation for how often you will be required to attend the office is outlined in the job profile and will be discussed with you.   Details about our hybrid and agile working approach (including how travel expenses work) can be found on our website.

HOW TO APPLY

We ask you to send us a CV and cover letter. In your cover letter, we'd like to know why you're interested in working with us at Blood Cancer UK. It's also helpful if you tell us why you think you are a great candidate for this role based on the skills, knowledge and expertise section above. Your cover letter doesn't have to be too long, 1-2 pages is ideal. Please don't add photos or graphics to your CV, as we use blind shortlisting at this stage of the process.

Full details about our recruitment processes, including how we use blind shortlisting and what to expect at each stage of the process can be found on our website. Sometimes we close our vacancies early, usually because we have had a lot of great applicants, so we’d always encourage you to apply early rather than wait until the deadline.

WHY WORK AT BLOOD CANCER UK?

We're the 9th best charity in the UK to work for according to Best Companies 2021!

We started because of Susan, we’ll get there because of you.

Blood Cancer UK was started by one family who lost their daughter, Susan, to blood cancer, and that history and sense of family continues to shape who we are today. When you join Blood Cancer UK, you don’t just become an organisational employee – you become part of a collaborative community dedicated to funding research into beating blood cancer that includes some of the most inspiring people you’ll ever meet.

And we’re not that far away from beating blood cancer. We’re confident we can do it within the next generation, and this makes us hugely ambitious and gives us a sense of real urgency. It also means we’re changing quickly as an organisation as we constantly challenge ourselves and strive to become more and more effective. This pace of change means working here isn’t for everyone. But if you’re excited by the chance to work in a fast-paced, agile and supportive environment with the focus and ambition to beat blood cancer this could be the place for you! We focus on results rather than time spent at a desk, so we deliver more for people affected by blood cancer.

Blood Cancer UK offers the chance to work for and with people affected by blood cancer, and the opportunity to advance your career and develop your skillset whilst taking on exciting new challenges and making your mark.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity. Read our statement which reflects our strong drive to change in this area.

To this end we would welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including minoritised communities, and applicants with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

You can read some examples of how we can support you through the application and interview process here.

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