Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: 12 month fixed term contract 

Location: Gloucester 

Job Ref: 204096

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Business Performance Accountant to join our Gloucester office.

As Business Performance Accountant you'll work in partnership with the business, providing accountancy services to enable the delivery of our strategic and tactical objectives.

Why join us?

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 

• Deliver Strategic Financial Insights: Conduct in-depth financial analysis to support data-driven decision-making and long-term business planning.
• Lead Financial Reporting and Forecasting: Oversee the preparation and presentation of monthly management accounts, budgets, and rolling forecasts, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Drive Performance: Identify key financial trends, investigate variances, and provide actionable recommendations to improve business performance.
• Commercial Business Partnering: Act as a strategic finance partner to the Commercial Director offering financial guidance and challenge to drive growth and profitability.
• Support Regulatory and Statutory Compliance: Collaborate with reporting teams to source, analyse, and prepare financial data for statutory accounts and regulatory submissions.
  
  

What you'll need to have 

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience with the production of monthly financial reports, regular and ad hoc financial analysis
• A skilled communicator capable of interpreting and explaining complex information to stakeholders
• Proactive approach, with the ability to meet demanding deadlines, handle competing priorities and adapt to the needs of the business
• Experienced and disciplined user of Microsoft Excel, with ability to manage large datasets

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 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

Hear from the hiring manager

"This is a great opportunity for a proactive and analytical thinker to make a real difference in a growing business.’

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