Compliance & Governance Lead Accountant in Gloucester

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ROLE: Compliance & Governance Lead

HOURS: 37.5 hours a week

LOCATION: Birmingham OR Gloucester

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We’re looking for an R2R Compliance & Governance Lead to join the FSS Record to Report (R2R) team. Reporting to the FSS R2R Controller, this role is a key member of the R2R function.

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, efficiently and within agreed deadlines.

The successful candidate will act as the primary liaison between FSS, Group Tax, Divisional Finance and the offshore team, providing technical expertise, leadership, coaching and support to drive a culture of strong financial control, high-quality service delivery and continuous process improvement.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of compliance and governance activities performed by the Wipro offshore Compliance & Governance team.
• Ensure all tax and compliance-related activities are completed accurately and in line with statutory and internal deadlines.
• Review and approve VAT returns prepared by the offshore team prior to submission to Group Tax for final approval.
• Review and approve CIS returns prior to submission.
• Review statutory accounts prepared by the offshore team to ensure accuracy, completeness, appropriate formatting and inclusion of Group Finance amendments.
• Undertake ad hoc duties and support additional activities as required, in line with the needs of the RTR function and wider business priorities.

Required Qualifications

• Accounting experience and qualifications essential.
• Strong knowledge of TAX ,VAT and CIS compliance processes.
• High proficiency in Excel and confidence working with large data sets.

What's in it for you?

• High street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more via our MiDeals platform.
• Life cover of up to four times your salary.
• Enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (with the potential for free shares).

Our market‑leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

Our market‑leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Tajal Patel at Tajal.Patel@mitie.com.

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