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Financial & Compliance Accountant
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Hays Accountancy & Finance are exclusively partnering with a national facilities management PLC to recruit a dynamic Financial & Compliance Accountant to join their rapidly growing team in Gloucester, Gloucestershire. The role is responsible for leading and overseeing compliance and governance activities performed by the offshore team, ensuring all statutory, regulatory and internal reporting obligations are delivered accurately and efficiently. The role will involve providing technical expertise and support to drive a culture of strong financial controls, high-quality service delivery and continuous process improvement.
This permanent position is open to part-qualified/qualified finance professionals who have strong financial/statutory accounting experience looking to really add value within a fast-paced environment. Both industry accountants and financial professionals seeking a move out of accountancy practice will be considered. Remote/office hybrid working offered, flexible working hours and additional competitive benefits on offer.
Your new role
Your key duties will involve:
- Reviewing statutory accounts prepared by the offshore team to ensure accuracy, completeness and appropriate formatting for Group Finance amendments.
- Reviewing and approving VAT returns and CIS returns prior to submission to the Group Tax Team.
- Ensuring all tax and compliance-related activities are completed accurately and in line with statutory and internal deadlines.
- Leading the delivery of compliance and governance activities performed by the offshore Compliance & Governance team.
- Undertaking ad-hoc duties and projects to support the wider business priorities.
- Acting as a primary liaison between the Finance Shared Service, Group Tax Team, Divisional Finance and the offshore team to provide coaching, technical expertise and support continuous improvement projects.
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What you'll need to succeed
To be considered for this permanent Financial & Compliance Accountant role, you will have:
- Experience in a similar position.
- Strong knowledge of statutory accounting, Tax, VAT & CIS compliance processes.
- High proficiency in MS Excel to be confident working with large data sets.
- Strong communication skills to build internal and external relationships at all levels, used to working within a fast-paced environment managing workloads to meet deadlines.
- Experience within a range of financial systems, adaptable to organisational needs with a continuous improvement mind-set.
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA part-qualified or qualified, qualified by experience professionals with relevant experience will be considered.
- Experience within a large organisation, PLC or Shared Service environment, along with proven supervisory/coaching skills will be advantageous but not essential.
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What you'll get in return
This permanent Financial & Compliance Accountant role offers:
- A salary between £48,000 - £55,000 per annum, dependable on experience based in Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
- Remote/office hybrid working, flexible working hours.
- Life cover of up to four times base salary.
- Enhanced pension scheme.
- Finance study package if applicable.
- Flexible lifestyle benefits platform.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Critical illness cover and more.
A great opportunity to join a well-established and known national PLC where you can really take the lead on compliance, governance and statutory activities.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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