Tax Accountant
Location: London
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
and Hybrid
About The Role
We are looking for a qualified or nearly-qualified Tax Accountant with corporate tax experience to provide a professional tax service to all MS&AD Group companies in Europe.
The role will sit within the UK based centralised tax team comprising seven full time tax professionals.
If you are keen to focus on providing high quality corporate tax compliance and advisory services in the context of a multi-national insurance company - you’ll fit right in.
MS Amlin is part of a global top-10 insurance group, MS&AD. We’re made up of four distinct businesses covering Global Reinsurance, Lloyds Franchise, Local Specialty Insurer, and Business Services
MS Amlin Business Services (MS ABS) supports our entire organisation through IT, Cyber, Procurement, Legal, HR, Facilities Management, and Finance. Our vision is to be a trusted partner and solution provider of choice.
What You’ll Spend Your Time Doing
While there is rarely a ‘typical’ day as a Tax Accountant, here’s a snapshot of some of the key parts of the job:
- Completing quarterly and annual tax reporting
- Working with Tax colleagues in Tokyo and other regions to complete Head office and international tax filing requirements e.g. CbCR, CFC reporting and Pillar II
- Preparing UK corporation tax returns and working with advisors to manage the submission of non-UK returns
- Liaising with Finance colleagues in the UK and beyond to assist them in all of their corporate tax needs
- Assisting the Group Tax Manager with ad hoc pieces of tax advisory work
You’re Going To Enjoy This Job If You…
- Are focused on delivering first class client service
- Keen to manage and deliver an annual compliance and reporting cycles
- Enjoy working across a number of jurisdictions, cultures etc
- Want to challenge and enhance your tax technical knowledge into new and developing areas
- Are looking to develop your tax career in a supportive yet challenging ‘in house’ environment
What We Need From You
For this particular role there are some important qualifications and experience we need you to have. These include:
- Ideally previous Lloyd’s/Insurance/Financial Service tax experience
- To be 0 – 3 years PQE CTA and/or ACA qualified (or suitable number of years experience)
- Good tax accounting knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to take ownership of issues
- Enthusiastic and resilient
We are stronger together because of our common interests and rich differences. You may be the strength we didn’t know we needed. Believe in yourself, and click apply today!
What Can You Expect From Us?
- Competitive Base Salary
- Performance Related Discretionary Bonus
- Holiday: 28 days core annual leave, and you can buy up to 5 days
- Pension: A minimum 2% employee contribution plus 7% MS Amlin contribution (9%) up to a maximum of 5% employee contribution plus 13% MS Amlin contribution (18%)
- Private Medical: cover for yourself. Family members/dependants can be added
- Flex Fund: £1,000 (pro-rated based on start date) to spend on flexible benefits
- Life Assurance: 5x annualised base salary
- Bank Holidays: To support the diverse backgrounds and beliefs of our team, we offer employees the flexibility to exchange bank holidays for alternative dates that better reflect their personal, cultural, or religious preferences.
Each one of us is unique because of our backgrounds, what we have learned so far and how we express that. Establishing an inclusive attitude helps us, organisationally, to ‘think outside the box’ because it calls on that diverse range of ideas, perspectives and lived experiences.
We commit to continuing our work towards a more diverse and inclusive future by recognising that our business, our teams and every colleague has a part to play in driving the positive change we all want to see.
Our values demonstrate our commitment to providing an environment in which each and every colleague is respected for who they are and what they can contribute to the business, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, religion/faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, socio-economic background, sex or age.
