Finance Business Partner (Group IT & Transforma... Benefact Group · Gloucester ·

Benefact group; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An international financial services group located in Gloucester seeks a Finance Business Partner to provide essential financial analysis and support strategic decision-making within their IT department. The ideal candidate will focus on budget management, financial reporting, and fostering relationships across teams. This role promotes a collaborative work culture, hybrid working opportunities, and a variety of employee perks including an annual bonus scheme and personal development support.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension

Generous annual bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus holidays

Health benefits including private healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for qualifications

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with experience in financial planning and analysis.
• Experience in financial services or IT business partnering.
• Organised and detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial insight and analysis for strategic decision-making.
• Ensure accurate financial information through monitoring and reporting.
• Track budgets and identify risks and opportunities.
• Translate financial data into insights for stakeholders.
• Support core planning and operational processes.

Skills

Qualified Accountant with FP&A experience

Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Proficiency in financial modelling

Strong Excel skills

Tools

BI tools

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: 12 month FTC

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 204534

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Finance Business Partner (Group IT & Transformation) to join our Gloucester office.

The Finance Business Partner (Group IT & Transformation) provides essential financial analysis, reporting, and insight to underpin technology and transformation initiatives. Working closely with the Finance Business Partner (Group Strategy), this role ensures that financial discipline and governance are maintained across IT and group change portfolios. The role focuses on preparing accurate data, monitoring budgets, and supporting decision‑making processes, enabling the senior partner to drive strategic conversations and deliver value from investments.

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

• Providing financial insight and analysis to support strategic decision‑making, business cases, investment appraisals, and post‑implementation reviews.
• Ensuring accurate, consistent financial information through day‑to‑day monitoring, reporting, forecasting, and variance/risk management across Group IT and transformation portfolios.
• Safeguarding budgets by tracking spend, identifying risks and opportunities, and optimising resource allocation.
• Translating complex financial data into clear insights for non‑finance stakeholders while building strong cross‑functional relationships across Finance, IT, and Change teams.
• Supporting core planning and operational processes, including budgeting, strategic planning, Workday process implementation, and development of shared service and cost allocation models.

What you’ll need to have

• Qualified Accountant with FP&A experience.
• Financial Services experience or IT business partnering experience.
• Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in financial modelling, scenario analysis, and automation (pivot tables, lookups).
• Organised and detail‑oriented.
• Strong Excel skills.

What makes you stand out

• Experience with BI tools.
• Insurance Experience.

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

Come join our Finance team! We work closely with IT and transformation teams to turn financial data into clear insights that drive real decisions. From safeguarding budgets to supporting strategic planning, you’ll be part of a collaborative team that makes a big impact across the 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