Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Contract



Location:
Gloucester
About the role

Ecclesiastical, who are proudly part of the Benefact Group, are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our Gloucester office with hybrid working on a 6 month contract.

This position involves working closely with our finance department to support us on a Finance transformation project to optimise and improve our processes and procedures.

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

• Facilitate the business area in defining exactly what needs to be delivered to reach the target outcome
  
• Ensure key stakeholders are aligned around clear definitions of the target outcome, scope, objectives and business impact
  
• Support the construction of the business case to ensure the proposed work is financially viable
  
• Define the parameters for baselining business performance and measuring benefits realisation
  
• Document and hand over key features required to be taken forward into implementation by Group Technology
  
• Ownership of key work streams delivering to project/programme board level
  
• Evidence of alignment to the achievement of strategic themes
  
• Will seek external views, trends and research to support analysis and recommendations
  
• Process analysis completed in line with desired process architecture
  
• Delivering work autonomously
  
• Stakeholder Management at Senior Level
  
• Builds and maintains stakeholders relationships wider than allocated work

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Previous experience working in Accounting/Finance (Qualified preferential)
• Previous experience working on a transformation project
• Confident and influential communicator
  
• Strong organisation skills
  
• Proficient in analysing the underlying issues
  
• Keeps overall objectives and strategies in mind
  
• Can quickly understand the working business model and the desired target state
  
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships with people from across business areas
  
• Excellent organisational and problem solving capabilities
  
• Proven experience in the analysis role on complex/large projects
  
• Experience of working conceptually
  
• Keeps commercial aspects continually in mind when taking actions or making decisions
  
• Understands and applies methods and techniques for preparing and presenting business cases

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 £200 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 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.