Tax Accountant
General:
Job description and person specification
Exciting opportunity to join Beazley’s Finance team. We are looking for a Tax Accountant.
Who We Are
Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide beautifully designed insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.
Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our Culture
We employ over 2,300 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work in an adult environment that’s big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.
Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers –- Be bold
- Strive for better
- Do the right thing
Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious I&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.
We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as iLearn (our own learning & development platform), LinkedIn Learning, our mentorship program and external qualification sponsorship.As a Beazley employee, you also get access to our fantastic array of benefits which include commuting reimbursement, free in-office lunch, six months parental leave and a lifestyle allowance, amongst many others.
Job Title: Tax AccountantDivision: Finance / Tax
Key Relationships: Finance team, Lloyd’s of London, Underwriters, HMRC, Overseas Tax Authorities, Tax Advisors and Auditors.
Job Summary: A key role in our tax team, supporting the Direct Tax Managers in tax compliance and tax advisory work
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist with the preparation and submission of corporation tax returns for group entities.
- Corporation tax payments across Europe.
- Assisting with tax accounting and reporting for entity and consolidated financial statements.
- Assisting on other tax and finance projects.
- Assist with the preparation and submission of UK and overseas tax reporting for Lloyd’s of London.
- Where possible improving the tax compliance processes, controls and systems.
- Ad Hoc tax or accounting tasks including co-ordination and collection of information to prepare internal reports.
- Support the Tax Managers with other areas of taxation as required.
- To comply with relevant Beazley procedures and policies.
Personal Specification:
Skills and Abilities- Must be able to work as part of a team
- Computer skills – Excel in particular
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Proactive, self-starter, seeks continuous improvement
- Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
- University degree in finance/ business/ accounting preferred
- Tax / accounting qualification (ACCA/ACA/CTA)
- Building relationships
- Analytical thinking
- Service focus
- Team working
- Conceptual thinking
- Forward thinking