Tax Assistant

Exciting opportunity to join Beazley’s Finance team. We are looking for a Tax Assistant to joing our Tax team within Finance Operations. This is a permanent role, based from either our London or Birmingham office, however can be worked remotely as we are a smart working employer. 

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 1,500 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 from when and where they want, 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 – 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) 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 all 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

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with the preparation and submission of corporation tax returns for the UK and Irish group entities.
• Assist with the preparation and submission of VAT and IPT returns for the UK and Irish group entities.
• Corporation tax and IPT payments across Europe.
• Preparation and submission of PSA returns.
• Assist with the preparation and submission of UK and overseas tax reporting for Lloyd’s of London.
• Assisting with tax accounting and reporting for entity and consolidated financial statements.
• Assisting on other tax and finance projects, including R&D claims
• 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 Manager with other areas of taxation as required.
• To comply with relevant Beazley procedures and policies.

Personal Specification:

• University degree in finance/ business/ accounting preferred
• Willing to study towards accounting and/or tax qualification (ATT/CTA/ACCA)
• Willing to specialise in tax

Skills and Abilities

• Must be able to work as part of a team
• Computer skills – Excel/MS Office
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Proactive, self starter, seeks continuous improvement
• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise

Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of insurance company accounting and/or taxation is preferred

Competencies

• Building relationships
• Achievement drive
• Analytical thinking
• Service focus
• Team working
• Conceptual thinking
• Forward thinking
• Strategic thinking