We are looking for an indirect tax lead to join Markel and form an integral part of the Tax team.
What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.
Join us and play your part in something special!
The opportunity:
Reporting in to the Head of Tax, you will have responsibility for the day to day management of the indirect tax compliance and reporting processes.
As part of the Markel global tax team, you will work closely with our US tax colleagues and our global finance teams. Our team leads all aspects of planning and strategic support, direct and indirect tax compliance and tax accounting for Markel International and its subsidiaries.
What you’ll be doing:
- Ensuring that global VAT and IPT returns are filed accurately and in a timely manner, thereby ensuring Markel is in compliance and exposures and penalties are minimised.
- Maintaining indirect tax process documentation, understanding end to end processes and ensuring control processes are operating optimally in order to support internal risk control sign off procedures and the obligations of the Senior Accounting Officer.
- Proactively identifying and supporting improvements to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of indirect tax reporting and the tax account reconciliation processes.
- Ensuring that UK VAT returns accurately reflect the terms of the group’s latest agreed VAT Partial Exemption Special Method and satisfy HMRC’s Making Tax Digital requirements.
- Relationship management and regular engagement with external VAT and IPT consultants.
- Supervising UK VAT group membership and global VAT and IPT registrations.
- Ensuring that the MINT Head of Tax is made aware of any indirect tax issues, exposures or opportunities.
- Supporting the business in the identification and mitigation of UK/international VAT exposures, This includes indirect tax due diligence on acquisitions and planning for disposals and restructuring.
- Maintaining up to date knowledge of UK and International VAT law changes and related developments.
Our must-haves:
- Strong technical VAT knowledge.
- Practical experience with VAT/IPT compliance and reporting processes.
- VAT experience within insurance or the financial services industry. Additionally any experience of providing advisory services to clients in the financial services industry is desirable.
- Professional tax or accounting qualifications would be preferred but not crucial
- Be a collaborative individual who works well within a coordinated global function.
- Be a strong communicator with the ability to share ideas with others in a way that can be easily understood.
- Must be well organised and self-motivated with a consistent record of delivery.
Who we are:
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
What’s in it for you?
- A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave
- Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
- There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!
Are you ready to play your part?
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us on +44 (0) 2079536504 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.
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