Background

Charles Taylor is a leading global provider of professional services and technology solutions to the insurance industry.  We are a profitable, growing organisation that is highly regarded in the insurance industry, employing some of the industry’s ‘best in class’ professionals and technical experts.  Our services and solutions support every stage of the insurance lifecycle and every aspect of the insurance operating model, across all major commercial insurance lines as well as technical areas of personal insurance. We serve a diversified blue-chip international customer base that includes national and international insurance companies, mutuals, captives, MGAs, Lloyd's syndicates, and reinsurers, along with brokers, distributors, and corporate insureds.

Charles Taylor is PE-backed, following a majority investment by Lovell Minnick Partners in January 2020, and has strong ambitions for organic and acquisition-led growth.

Our delivery of high quality, tailored services and solutions to our clients is backed by our core values of support, excellence in people, client partnership, quality of work, entrepreneurship, and positive change.   We look for employees who exemplify these values to join us and help drive our growth.

For more information, please visit www.charlestaylor.com.

The Role

The key purpose of the role is to assist the Group head of tax with managing the end-to-end UK tax reporting processes for corporation tax and VAT, overseeing key UK and global tax risks, and working with advisers (where relevant) to provide ad hoc advisory/ project support for the global business, including tax authority audits and transaction/ M&A support. This would be an ideal first move into industry for a UK tax specialist looking to gain a broad understanding of a wide range of tax issues across multiple jurisdictions.

In addition to the UK-based Group head of tax, the Group tax team includes a US-based senior tax accountant and a global network of senior business finance partners/ operations directors with responsibility for local taxes in each jurisdiction.

The role is fully remote, with occasional travel to our head office in central London. We are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Key Responsibilities

Working with the Group Head of Tax you will:

• Work with external advisers to ensure that the UK corporation tax annual compliance process is completed timely and accurately for all UK entities;
• Draft annual corporation tax statutory accounts disclosures for UK Group companies;
• Assist with Group consolidated tax disclosures and accounting;
• Draft quarterly VAT returns and work with the Group head of tax and advisers to manage UK VAT risks/ any necessary voluntary disclosures;
• Use dedicated software to assist the Group head of tax in managing tax risks across c. 40 jurisdictions;
• Monitor UK tax risks and feed into the Senior Accounting Officer tax certification process
• Provide tax advisory support to different areas of the global business on ad hoc projects;
• Monitor and review strategies, policies and processes relating to tax with a view to improving efficiency and reducing costs where possible;
• Build strong relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders, including the finance team, compliance, HR, group legal, auditors, tax advisers and others;
• Manage HMRC relationships and any associated voluntary submissions or enquiries;
• Identify and manage appropriate responses to applicable tax developments, influencing the business accordingly and ensuring the Group is fully compliant; and
• Maintain robust controls and governance for all tax processes.

Values

Demonstrate and role model the Charles Taylor six Values by acting with responsibility and respect (Integrity), work better together (Collaboration), anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to change (Agility), are compassionate and human (Care) and take ownership (Accountability).

Required Skills

• Minimum 3-5 years’ corporate tax experience and a professional qualification (e.g., ATT, AAT, ACA, CTA)
• Able to demonstrate enthusiasm, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-motivated, detail oriented, problem solver.
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills with senior management, auditors, and external advisers while working remotely.
• Strong organization and project management skills – ability to manage multiple projects with competing demands.
• An awareness/ experience of indirect taxes would be an advantage.

Why join Charles Taylor?

We are very proud of the fact that nine out of ten of our people recommend Charles Taylor as a place to work.  We pride ourselves on having a positive work environment where our people are empowered to make the best decisions and where learning is valued highly and shared across our business.

We are very committed to ensuring our people are given continuous learning and development. As well as structured induction programmes and job training, we provide study support for relevant professional qualifications and have a Core Learning & Development Curriculum.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Charles Taylor, we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

Our external partnerships and the dedicated work we do in promoting a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process all contribute to the successful, inclusive, and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.

Contact information

Ankur Chowdhury