Senior Accountant - Indirect Tax
Cover Genius
Accounting & Finance
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Nov 27, 2024
The Company
Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.
Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are
Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not
Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
About the Role
As a Senior Accountant - Indirect Tax at Cover Genius, you will be a knowledgeable and resourceful member of the Global Tax team. You will be a trusted partner to our internal stakeholders and collaborate effectively with our external tax service providers, providing indirect tax guidance to enable the business and Cover Genius’ rapid growth. We are looking for a driven, reliable, and self-starting individual who works exceptionally well with others and wants to be part of a global insurtech company with the vision to protect all customers of the world’s largest digital companies. This role reports into the Director of Global Tax.
What will your day look like? You will...
- Be a solid partner to internal stakeholders, such as the insurance partnerships teams, product teams, and the legal department, providing them global indirect tax guidance (IPT, VAT, GST, Sales Tax, etc)
- Play an integral role in the global tax function, including preparing indirect tax returns by partnering with local tax advisors
- Oversee the preparation and submission of all indirect tax related data and documentation to local third party service providers, ensuring efficient and accurate completion
- Perform month-end close activities such as tax entries and indirect tax position reviews
- Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and overall process improvement as we build and scale the global team
- Support the Global Financial Reporting team during financial statement audits, which includes the preparation, maintenance, and oversight of audit-ready tax reconciliations and workpapers
- Support in maintenance of the tax compliance calendars and work with the tax director and external tax advisors to maintain compliance
- Partake in ad hoc finance and tax projects and analyses.
To help us level up, you'll ideally have:
- 5+ years of indirect tax compliance and consultancy experience; Big Four experience preferred
- Degree in tax preferred
- Thrives on collaboration and operates with a strong internal stakeholder mentality
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong ability to quickly identify both risks and opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on both process improvements and results
- Proactive self-starter, resourceful with a strong work ethic
- Capable of working independently as well as working in a team
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Experience with Netsuite is a bonus
- Fluent in spoken and written English
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?
• Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!
* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
