Finance Business Partner

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Duration**:_ _**6 month fixed term contract

**Location**:Gloucester - Hybrid

**Job ref**:201650

**About the role***:
**Ecclesiastical**, who are proudly part of the **Benefact Group**, are looking for a **Finance Business Partner** to join our **Gloucester** office.

This role provides an opportunity to be a key part of a growing and dynamic area of the business working with a group of experienced and committed business leaders. You will be responsible for delivering a first class finance business partnering service by providing insight and analysis to support strategy and business decision making across the Group Development team which incorporates Technology and Change Transformation.

If you enjoy a challenge where each day is different and relish the chance to work with key stakeholders across the business then this is the role for you.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing and forward thinking business, giving you a real opportunity to develop your career and be part of a purpose led organisation.

**Key responsibilities**
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- As Finance Business Partner, you will be a key member of the Group Development team supporting the Group Chief Operating Officer and his team of 5 Directors (covering Strategy, Customer Insight, Communications, Transformation and Technology)
- You’ll lead and deliver the annual budgeting, planning and forecasting process for the Group Development area working alongside the Group Development Leadership team and senior Finance colleagues. As part of this activity you’ll support establishment of new budget management processes across the department
- Anaplan software is used to produce the annual plan, so updating and maintaining information on the software will be an important part of the planning process
- There are frequent opportunities to influence business decisions and improve financial performance by providing insightful information in the context of the strategy and plans. These include:

- Providing quarterly financial forecasting and analysis to ensure clarity of expenses/costs across technology and change disciplines and visibility of beneficiaries of additional central spend
- Providing robust financial modelling to support key change and transformation programmes, complex business cases and strategic opportunities is a key element of the role
- Understanding, analysing and clearly presenting actual v budget financial performance numbers to the Group Development Team
- Supporting the Group Chief Operating Officer and Group Strategy Director in developing effective monthly performance reporting including scorecard view
- Ensuring that agreed standards of financial control and risk management are embedded in all business processes will underpin your work

**Knowledge, skills and experience**
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- A Qualified Accountant with significant post qualification experience
- Previous experience working on financial support for large change programmes or for technology teams would be advantageous
- Comfortable with making decisions and working with ambiguity
- First-rate self-management skills
- Excellent analytical, data interrogation and diagnostic skills
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong commercial knowledge
- Skilled at stakeholder management within a commercial environment
- Proven ability to build strong relationships whilst maintaining objectivity, challenge and influence
- Excellent communicator with ability to converse across various specialisms at all levels
- A track record of problem solving
- Experience of Anaplan would be advantageous

**What we offer**:

- A competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Flexible working
- Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
- Generous annual bonus scheme up to 30%
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- 28 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
- Up to £300 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

**About us***:
**Benefact Group** is a unique international financial services group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and currently the 3rd largest corporate donor in the country, having given away over £187 million since 2016. We have an ambitious plan to become the number one corporate donor with strategic objectives in place to double the groups size over the next five years.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people offer career opportunities and personal development through a fantastic learning and career framework. Luckily for us, the nature of who we are - our giving ethos, our 135 year history and the diversity of what we do - has built a culture of kindness, of great ambition, of passionate peop