Accountant
Full Time
Job Description
- Collating, validating and producing tax split reports for the European jurisdictions
- Organizing tax data by location and generating the tax payable amounts by territory
- Where necessary, confirm premium tax rates and applicability using available online tools
- Completing the tax declaration templates and performing a self-review prior to sharing with the International Tax team and to the outsourced company for submission
- Liaising with Treasury for top-up payments at the end of each month and any ad hoc payments
- Using multiple sources (including Cognos) to extract tax data and presenting in a consistent format
- Effective liaison within the wider Finance teams, tax, legal entity reporting and internal audit colleagues and with external stakeholders (e.g. external auditors and service providers)
- Preparation of UK Premium Tax returns
- Ensuring premium taxes and cash entries are correctly recorded with the General Ledger
- Performing cash allocations within the source systems
- Drive continuous improvement and standardization through reviewing current processes, identifying opportunities and implementing change working in conjunction with European branch finance colleagues
- Identify and implement areas of automation
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA Qualified/Part Qualified accountant
- Experienced initiating and driving process and financial control improvements
- Experience initiating and implementing change within Finance
- Advanced excel and general ledger accounting system knowledge / ability
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Advanced excel skills, pivot tables, formulas
- Experience working in an insurance business
- Experience in preparation of insurance premium tax returns
- Encourage a culture of continuous improvement and ‘end to end’ process thinking
- Energy, enthusiasm, persistence and adaptability
- Professional approach and delivery of work product
- Ability to influence and lead others
- Focus on timely delivery of quality outputs
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Commercially minded, critical thinker with a keen eye for the detail
- Assertive but sensitive to conflicting demands on others.
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