Experience Level:
Intermediate / Mid
Hours Required:
Full-time, Hybrid working
- Initial production of the quarterly tax provisions for US GAAP reporting, and liaison with the US tax team.
- Drafting UK statutory tax information and disclosures as part of the year-end process.
- Drafting of corporate tax computations and filings and associated matters (e.g. tax payments, transfer pricing, Senior Accounting Officer, withholding taxes etc).
- Drafting of tax information and documents for Lloyd’s centrally-prepared returns.
- Assisting with forecasting tax-payments.
- Liaison with/ management of internal teams, HMRC, external auditors and advisers.
- Support for Certificates of UK Tax Residence and FATCA processes.
- Support with/ management of tax investigations.
- Input to UK / group M&A/ projects.
- Awareness of existing/ analysis of new UK and worldwide tax developments, and input to advice on UK and group implications.
- Contributing to team planning, budgeting and organisation.
Role Requirements
- The ability to independently organise, prioritise and manage several strands work to make best use of available resource to produce coherent, timely outcomes.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate tax-technical issues to a non-tax audience.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- A collaborative and inclusive approach to developing strong working relationships with all stakeholders and the ability to manage conflicting views.
- Confidence to ask questions/ challenge information provided and initiative especially in dealing with areas of ambiguity.
- A proactive attitude to identifying problems/ better ways of working and recommending/ implementing solutions.
- A willingness to challenge yourself to quickly adapt to unfamiliar issues, systems and processes.
Qualifications
Accounting/ tax qualification (e.g. ACA/ACCA/ATT/CTA) preferred but not essential if proven to operate at the appropriate level
Experience
- UK insurance tax compliance experience – desired
- Lloyd’s tax experience compliance – desired
- US GAAP financial reporting experience (including managing GAAP adjustments) – desired
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office – essential