Finance Assistant

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable financial services group is seeking a Finance Assistant for their Gloucester office. The role focuses on providing an accurate expense service, managing accounting systems, and preparing financial reports. Applicants should have experience in finance and a proactive attitude towards improving processes. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits in a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Group Personal Pension

Generous annual bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits

Charity grant

Volunteering days

Employee Assistance Programme

Professional qualifications support

Virtual GP access

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance or accounting role.
• Able to communicate effectively and resolve issues.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy of expense postings and manage accruals.
• Prepare reconciliations for profit and loss accounts.
• Manage and process expenses claims.

Skills

Finance or accounting experience

Communication skills

Relationship building

Reconciliation skills

Analytical skills

Excel skills

Job description

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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 203898

About the role

Benefact Group, are looking for a Finance Assistant to join our Gloucester office on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

As a Finance Assistant you will provide an accurate and specialist expense service to the businesses including maintaining accounting systems, reporting, budget preparation, and liaising with other members of the Finance team and the wider business.

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Ensuring accuracy of expense postings, including the capitalisation and depreciation of fixed assets and the management of accruals and prepayments
• Preparing reconciliations for key profit and loss and balance sheet accounts and ensuring outstanding items are promptly investigated and resolved
• Preparing monthly expense reports to management and business areas
• Managing, administering and processing expenses claims
• Preparing HMRC analysis including corporation tax schedules and information for PAYE Settlement Agreement returns

What you'll need to have

• Experience in a finance or accounting role
• Confidence in communicating with the ability to address and escalate matters with colleagues and stakeholders to resolve any issues
• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships and build influence with senior management and business areas
• Experience in carrying out reconciliations and accounting concepts such as double entry, accruals, prepayments, assets, budgets and commitments
• Strong analytical and excel skills
  

What makes you stand out

• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple streams of work within defined timelines
• Strong attention to detail as this is key for maintaining an accurate expense base and submitting returns.
• Demonstrably proactive, identifying opportunities to improve processes
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26