Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Day rate contract until the end of March 2027

Location: Gloucester

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Controls Consultant contractor (Outside IR35) to join our Gloucester office until the end of March 2027.

Contract purpose: To deliver the documentation, assessment and refinement of the Benefact Group plc Material Controls and supporting Key Controls in support of the Provision 29 declarations to be included in the Year End 2026 Annual Report & Accounts.

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 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

Key deliverables

• Documentation of Key and Material Controls consistent with Benefact Group Control Standards by EO September 2026

• Validate and Assure First Line Control Assessments to Inform 1st Draft

• Delivery of Material Controls Assessment and Disclosure Recommendations to Board by February 2027

• Design and Deliver workshops, training and consultancy support to Material & Key Control owners to uplift Benefact Group plc Organisational Capabilities ongoing through to March 2027

• With Support from Contract Controls Administrator, Design and Deliver a Key Controls Library / Tool to enable tracking of the identified controls and align to bottom-up articulations

Considerations

• It is expected that the contract will be delivered in line with the documented policies and standards (e.g. control definitions) of Benefact Group plc.

• It is expected that the Final Report will be the product of the Benefact Group plc and therefore subject to direction from the Group Risk Function in terms of format and content design.

• It is expected that progress and reporting on the contract will be supplied to the Project Steering Group on a regular basis with ongoing participation in project Working Group.

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.

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*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26