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Group Accountant – 12 month FTC - Chester - Hybrid working Your new company. Global business in Chester is recruiting a 12-month Group Accountant FTC. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing finance team in their UK Head Office Your new role Reporting to the Financial Controller, you'll work closely and collaboratively with the international finance team and the UK commercial team. Job duties will include : • Prepare monthly management accounts for Group entities, • Support the preparation of quarterly and annual reporting packs for the parent company, • Perform balance sheet reviews and reconciliations across group entries, • Support ongoing SOX compliance activities, liaising with internal and external auditors on the requirements, • Weekly and monthly cash flow forecasting process for multiple entities, • Key point of contact for the external audit team, • ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified accountant with both technical and commercial awareness, • Initial 12 month FTC with potential to turn permanent

About GBG\nEnabling safe and rewarding digital lives for genuine people, everywhere\n We make it our mission to ensure more genuine people have digital access to opportunities, and businesses have access to more genuine people. Our technology draws on diverse and reliable data to create a single point of truth for identity and address verification. \n With over 30 years of experience behind us our team and technology are focused on enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for everyone. Regardless of age, location or background, genuine people everywhere should be able to digitally prove who they are and where they live. \nAbout the team and role\n Finance Team \n Our finance team is central to the success of the business. Our aim is to proactively drive business value through informed and insightful decision making. We work in partnership with the business and are agile and responsive to business needs whilst maintaining a transparent system of effective standards, processes and controls. To support this goal, we strive to have the best highly engaged, finance professionals in our team. Head of Tax (Fixed Term Contract) \n Reporting to the Group Finance Director, the Head of Tax will have full responsibility for the Group’s tax strategy, governance and compliance. Responsibilities will include ensuring compliance with global tax regulations, managing tax liabilities and providing valuable insights to support business decisions. The role is a 15 month fixed term contract, ideally starting 1 April 2026, covering maternity leave. \nWhat you will do\n\n • Ensure compliance with the Group’s tax policy and strategy\n, • Have oversight and management of all direct and indirect tax matters across the Group\n, • Identify and mitigate tax risks including permanent establishment risk and withholding taxes\n, • Manage the timely delivery of tax computations and returns, tax payments and other tax compliance including R&D returns\n, • Responsible for tax reporting, dealing with external auditors and preparing tax disclosures for inclusion in the Group’s financial statements for year-end and interim.\n, • Ongoing review and management of Transfer Pricing Risks and the documentation of methodology.\n, • Periodic reporting to the Audit Committee and Board to provide strategic tax advice and updates\n, • Main point of contact for tax authorities and external tax advisors\n, • Manage VAT and sales tax compliance, particularly in the UK and US\n, • Qualified accountant and/or tax advisor (Either ACA or CTA) with experience of working in a managerial tax role, including exposure to international tax and transfer pricing\n, • Tax training in Top 10 accountancy firm or equivalent\n, • Extensive corporate tax experience\n, • Proven in-house experience and ideally, experience of working in a UK listed plc environment\n, • Experience managing international tax matters, in particular US tax knowledge due to our strong US presence\n, • Pace: Ability to work in a fast paced, high tech, rapidly growing and exciting environment\n, • Ability to balance technical and business issues as well as communicate appropriately with both technical and business experts and non-technical team members\n, • Commercially astute with a proactive, risk-aware approach to decision making\n, • Attention to detail but remains strategically focussed on the big picture\n