Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: 12 month Fixed-term contract

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 203901

About the role

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

The successful candidate 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.

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

• Provide analysis and information to support the year end accounting notes

• Ensure the accuracy of expense postings, including the capitalisation and depreciation of fixed assets and the management of accruals and prepayments
• Preparation of reconciliations for key profit and loss and balance sheet accounts and ensuring outstanding items are promptly investigated and resolved
• Preparation of monthly expense reports to management and business areas
• Liaise with business areas and cost centre managers to support them in delivering against expense budgets and identifying efficiencies, transaction queries and variance analysis
• Identify and drive cost saving efficiencies
• Manage, administer and process expenses claims
• Contribute to expense budgeting process and support cost centre managers with their budget preparation, using knowledge of expenses to challenge appropriately and identify errors or omissions
• Run the cost allocations process looking to simplify and improve this to provide accurate, transparent and supportable allocations to business units
• Prepare HMRC analysis including corporation tax schedules and information for PAYE Settlement Agreement returns
• Work with HR to provide reports and analysis when required
• Complete ONS returns on an annual basis

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience in a finance or accounting role
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple streams of work within defined timelines
• A confident communicator with the ability to address and escalate matters with colleagues and stakeholders to resolve any issues
• Strong attention to detail as this is key for maintaining an accurate expense base and submitting returns. Demonstrably proactive, identifying opportunities to improve processes
• Experience in carrying out reconciliations and accounting concepts such as double entry, accruals, prepayments, assets, budgets and commitments
• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships and build influence with senior management and business areas
• Strong analytical skills
• Good excel skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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 24%
  
• 25 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