Finance Assistant Benefact Group · Gloucester ·

Benefact Group plc; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Benefact Group plc seeks a Finance Assistant for their Gloucester office. This 12-month fixed-term role offers a competitive salary, hybrid working, and numerous benefits including a generous bonus scheme. The ideal candidate will oversee investment reconciliations and provide financial insight to senior leadership, contributing to a collaborative and inclusive workplace aimed at making a positive impact.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Healthcare benefits including private healthcare

Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

Qualifications

• Experience of delivering to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Experience with financial systems and partnering with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the Investment Reconciliations, including journal posting and process improvement.
• Support stakeholders with long term planning and reporting models.
• Assist with producing the monthly Executive Board Report.

Skills

Double entry accounting

Analytical skills

Data presentation

Education

AAT qualification

Part qualified (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)

Qualified by experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

ERPs

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: 12 month fixed term contract

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref:203940

About the role

Benefact Groupare looking for a Finance Assistantto join ourGloucesteroffice.

As Finance Assistant you willprovide an accurate and specialist FP&A service to the businesses including management accounting of the Group Investments, cashflow forecasting and producing accurate and insightful reporting for senior leadership.

Why join us?

Be part of a collaborative, inclusive, ambitious culture committed to making a difference and working towards 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, with all of our profits going to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• You'll own the Investment Reconciliations, including journal posting, driving continuous process improvement and enhancing insight for senior leadership.
• Support senior stakeholders with developing long term planning and reporting models for the business.
• Assist with producing the monthly Executive Board Report (EBR).
• Develop analysis tools to improve performance insights and commentary related to the EBR.
• Provide ad hoc analysis of the Group’s financial performance to aid decision making for senior leadership.

What you'll need to have

• Either AAT qualified, part qualified (CIMA, ACA, ACCA), or qualified by experience.
• A proven track record of delivering to tight monthly, quarterly, and annual deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent knowledge of double entry accounting.
• Experience of presenting data in a format that is both clear and insightful.
• Experience with building partnering relationships with internal stakeholders.
• A background of using financial systems (ERPs, FP&A software, general ledgers, Microsoft Excel etc).
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.

What makes you stand out

• An understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
• Hybrid working
  
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and up to24%
  
• 25days 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
  
• Up to £400 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

Hear from the hiring manager

"The FP&A team is a great place to understand how the Group ticks. We provide valuable insight to senior leadership to help with key decision making. Our friendly and supportive team are in demand more than ever and the right person will grow with us."

Josh Westcarr -Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

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