Job Title: Senior Tax Accountant
Contract Type: Permanent – Part Time, 20-25 hours per week (flexible working hours considered)
Location: Eastleigh – Hybrid, weekly office presence required.
Salary: Up to Circa £65,000.00 dependent on experience
Senior Tax Accountant: Ageas Insurance have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Tax Account to manage the internal and external tax compliance and reporting activities of the Ageas UK Group and managing a range of stakeholder relationships including Ageas group, HMRC, and the external auditors.
The Senior Tax Accountant will be a primary point of contact with HMRC, building relationships with the group's Customer Compliance Manager and supporting team and managing the day to day relationship via regular written and face-to-face contact.
Here are some of the main responsibilities of Senior Tax Accountant opportunity:
- To manage the submission of Corporation Tax computations and returns, VAT returns and IPT returns to HMRC in accordance with relevant legislation and within time limits.
- To ensure that tax disclosures within the year-end accounts are calculated in accordance with relevant legislation and accounting standards.
- To assist Payroll and HR with employment tax matters as required.
- To maintain arrangements for documentation, review and sign-off of appropriate controls for tax related matters, ensuring compliance with Senior Accounting Officer legislation.
- To ensure that the Ageas UK businesses are prepared for the introduction of BEPS Pillar II framework
- Develop and manage the direct report to this role
Here are some of the skills, knowledge and experience required to be successful in the Senior Tax Accountant opportunity:
- Strong interpersonal skills, the ability to relate effectively with people at all levels, persuasive, approachable and good at challenging assumptions in a diplomatic manner.
- A broad understanding of CT, VAT and IPT. A broad knowledge of the relevant business environment and commercial awareness.
- The jobholder must have the ability to understand, evaluate and interpret various financial data. Of particular importance is the ability to identify apparent inconsistencies in data.
- Qualified in ACA, ATT or CTA with preferably 2 years PQE
- Must build / maintain good working relationships with directors, managers, external parties (including HMRC), and colleagues.
- IT literate, to include a good working knowledge of spreadsheet software, especially Microsoft Excel.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Senior Tax Accountant role based in Eastleigh:
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders.
Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave
About Ageas:
We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
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