Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: FTC 

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 203873

About the role

Benefact Group, are looking for a Statutory Reporting Manager to join our Gloucester office on a 12 month FTC basis.

As a Statutory Reporting Manager, you will be responsible for producing and reviewing financial reporting, looking after some of the more judgmental areas of accounting and contribute to the development and improvement of processes. 

Joining our rapidly expanding and innovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and become an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation. 

Key responsibilities

• Sourcing, analysing, and consolidating financial information used to prepare the Group’s IFRS Annual Report and Accounts.
• Planning and communicating the Group’s year-end reporting cycle ensuring signing and filing objectives are met.
• Own some of the Group’s key technical accounting areas and the Group’s more judgemental areas of accounting ensuring accounting policy is applied appropriately and treatment is in compliance with relevant accounting standards.
• Develop key internal and external stakeholder relationships. The relationship with external auditors is key and the role will support surprise free statutory and regulatory assurance services.
• Preparation of audit committee, board and other committee papers supporting the Group’s key decision makers and financial reporting governance.
• Develop and maintain the integrity of the Group’s financial reporting processes and key controls.
• Coordinate, develop, update and integrate the Group’s accounting policies ensuring compliance across the Group.
• Gather and share insight into best practice reporting and accounting application.
• Research and resolve technical accounting issues, including the preparation of related papers and supporting the business with technical advice.
• Guidance on the accounting for past and future acquisitions.
• Develop processes to support consistent, error free and timely reporting.
• Identify and implement process improvements within the Group’s financial reporting function.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with an ability to explain complex information effectively and develop good working relationships at all levels both internal and external.
• Understanding of International Reporting Financial Standards, Companies Act and an appreciation of UK GAAP.
• Experience in producing consolidated financial results.
• An ability to meet demanding deadlines, handle competing priorities and adapt to the needs of the business.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working 
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 30%
  
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• A range 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

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