Lead Finance Business Partner - Fundraising

Blood Cancer UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Blood Cancer UK is seeking a Lead Finance Business Partner responsible for shaping fundraising strategies to ensure sustainable income growth. The role involves leading budgeting and forecasting efforts while providing financial insights to senior leadership, facilitating data-driven decision-making aligned with the charity's mission.

Qualifications

• Experience in senior finance business partnering roles, preferably in a fundraising context.
• Strong knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, and SORP compliance.
• Ability to communicate complex financial data to non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders for financial insights and alignment with strategic goals.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes.
• Improve financial systems and reporting tools for efficiency.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Performance reporting

Advanced financial modelling

Problem-solving

Education

Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Job description

Lead Finance Business Partner - Fundraising

Lead Finance Business Partner - Fundraising

Application Deadline: 31 July 2025

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London/Hybrid

Compensation: GBP 55,000 - GBP 60,000 / year

Description

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

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