Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: 12 month fixed term contract

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 204194

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Senior Group Accountant to join our Gloucester office on a 12 month fixed term contract basis.

As a Senior Group Accountant, you will be delivering accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting for the group and its businesses.

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 

• Support the preparation and delivery of the Group’s statutory and regulatory reporting through sourcing, analysing and preparing financial information for use in returns and financial statements.
• Contribute to the preparation of external IFRS financial statements for the Group’s UK entities including the Group’s consolidation accounts.
• Support the preparation and delivery of regulatory (Solvency II) returns for annual and quarterly submissions for UK regulated entities, including the Group.
• Provide support to the external auditor for efficient and surprise free statutory and solvency assurance engagements.
• Support a continuous improvement culture within the Group Reporting team and across wider Group Finance function.
• Assist with the preparation of narrative reporting for statutory and regulatory reporting, including the Strategic Report and SFCR.
• Contribute to areas of accounting judgements and support the Group Reporting team with the statutory and regulatory reporting Group Governance requirements.
• Support the implementation and improvements to the Group’s accounting controls and procedures for statutory and regulatory reporting.
• Proactive engagement with wider Group Finance objectives and projects.
• Actively expand personal technical knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CPD)

What you'll need to have

• Experience with the production of statutory accounts and knowledge of consolidations.
• A skilled communicator capable of interpreting and explaining complex information to stakeholders.
• Experienced and disciplined user of Microsoft Excel.
• Aptitude for learning, interpreting and applying accounting and regulatory requirements and best practice.
• Ability to meet demanding deadlines, handle competing priorities and adapt to the needs of the business.
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills.
• Well organised with a meticulous attention to detail.

What makes you stand out

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Understanding of IFRS, Solvency II experience beneficial, but not essential.
• Knowledge of the Financial Services industry would be beneficial but not essential.

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

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