Leading insurance company is seeking a tax accountant professional to join their London desk. This role has been created through internal mobility and is an ideal opportunity for a candidate in finance to gain wider experience in a more analytical position.
Key responsibilities:
- To assist the head of tax in the reporting & compliance aspects of tax in the international division
- Create and maintain tax reports from management information system
- Liaise with corporate tax function on various reporting requirements
- Analyse the P&L expense classification for all UK companies for tax purposes
- Analyse capital expenditure for tax purposes
- Analysis of profit & loss and technical reserves by location for US tax purposes
- Tax True Up calculations and journal postings
- Co-ordinate quarterly information requests from US tax team
- Maintain the list of inter-company trading transactions
- Review of draft Transfer Pricing reports in European offices
Qualifications and experience specification:
- Tax accounting experience within the Insurance Industry or tax experience gained with practice (ideally big 4)
- Accounting qualification, part or fully qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
- Good understanding of accounting principles and interdependencies with tax
- Familiarity with tax accounting
- Strong Excel Skills
- Excellent academic background
This is a great opportunity for a candidate with tax experience to gain more exposure in the industry with a leading insurance company. The position offers realistic opportunities for career progression including mobility to other areas of Finance. The candidate will need to possess strong stakeholder management skills as they will be communicating with various stakeholders internally and externally on a regular basis.
If you are interested in this role please apply below or contact me for more information.
