Benefact Group
Financial Reporting Accountant
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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Up to 6 Month Contract (Inside IR35)
Location: Gloucester
About the role
Benefact Group are looking for a Financial Reporting Accountant on a contract basis to join our Gloucester office.
The purpose of this role is to deliver 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 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.
What you'll be doing
- Support the preparation and delivery of the Group’s quarterly and annual statutory reporting, including sourcing, analysing, and validating financial data to ensure accurate and timely submissions.
- Work closely with external auditors to facilitate efficient statutory and regulatory assurance engagements, providing information, resolving queries, and helping to ensure a smooth audit process.
- Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of reporting processes, controls, governance, and accounting procedures, supporting a culture of continuous improvement and strengthening the quality and efficiency of financial reporting.
- Support technical accounting and statutory reporting activities, including the preparation of narrative reporting such as the Strategic Report, Audit Committee and Board papers.
- Contribute to areas of accounting judgements and support the Group Reporting team with the statutory reporting Group Governance requirements.
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What you'll need to have
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Aptitude for interpreting and applying accounting requirements and best practice.
- A skilled communicator capable of interpreting and explaining complex information to stakeholders.
- Experienced and disciplined user of Microsoft Excel.
- Financial Services Experience.
- Understanding of IFRS, Solvency II experience beneficial, but not essential.
What makes you stand out
- Insurance Experience.
- IFRS 17 knowledge.
Hear from the hiring manager
"An opportunity to join a great team in supporting them through the year end process as a new finance system is embedded. You will be working closely with the finance manager to produce the Q3 result as well as prep for year-end reporting."
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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
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