Tax Manager, UK

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

• 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

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