Finance Change Analyst

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services provider in Gloucester seeks a Finance Change Analyst to enhance business practices. The role involves process improvement, stakeholder coordination, and document creation for change management. A professional accounting qualification or equivalent experience is essential. The firm offers hybrid working, generous bonuses, and a commitment to charity and community development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension – up to 12% employer contribution

Bonus scheme between 6% and 24%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits

Personal grant to a charity of choice

Volunteering day annually

Employee Assistance Programme

Study support for qualifications

Access to virtual GP

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a Finance role is required.
• Proven experience in process improvement, design, and implementation is a must.

Responsibilities

• Identify and implement process improvements within Finance.
• Lead planning and deliver bespoke business change plans.
• Assess finance change initiatives on processes and systems.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• Create essential change documentation and escalate project risks.

Skills

Professional accounting qualification or qualified by experience

Strong technical knowledge of Finance Operations

Attention to detail

Experience in process improvement

Effective influencing and communication skills

Understanding of Finance integration

Job description

Finance Change Analyst

Company: Ecclesiastical Insurance UK (Benefact Group)

Location: Gloucester

Contract: 12 month fixed term

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

About the role

Benefact Group is looking for a Finance Change Analyst to join our Gloucester office.

As a Finance Change Analyst, you will act as a subject‑matter expert representing Group Finance, leading on defined development activities with a particular focus on business readiness and change. You will support Finance change management, including managing change into finance arising from changes in external and internal environment, process improvement, and supporting ERP implementation such as banking and settlement.

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.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and implement opportunities for process improvements and better working practices across Group Finance and Finance Operations.
• Support, and where appropriate lead on, the planning and delivery of bespoke business change plans for Finance Operations.
• Support the assessment of any finance change initiatives on finance processes, roles, and systems and support the development of change readiness assessments and mitigation plans.
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, in particular finance operations, and coordinate subject‑matter experts to ensure aligned and effective project delivery.
• Lead the creation of essential change documentation (e.g. requirements, process mapping, test scripts) and escalation of project risks to appropriate stakeholders.
• On an ad‑hoc basis support BAU activity as defined by the Finance Change Manager.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification or qualified by experience, plus extensive experience in a Finance role.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of Finance Operations systems and processes.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proven experience in process improvement, design, and implementation.
• Effective influencing and communication skills.
• Good understanding of how Finance and other business functions integrate to achieve excellent customer outcomes.

What makes you stand out

• Change qualifications would be desirable, but not essential.

Benefits

• A competitive salary – lets 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.

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