Tax Accountant

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 Tax Accountant at Cover Genius, you will be working amongst a rapidly expanding finance team, part of Cover Genius’ group finance team based in Amsterdam, Sydney, and New York. This role will require you to be a knowledgeable and resourceful member of the Tax and Accounting team who supports and evolves the day-to-day, while working cross-functionally across the organisation as you support key financial processes that continually support and enable all areas of the business and its rapid growth.

We are looking for a driven, reliable, and self-starting person 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 Tax.

What will your day look like? You will...

• Play an integral role in the global tax function, including preparing both direct and indirect tax returns, in conjunction with local experts
• Perform month-end close activities such as tax entries and reviews
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardisation, and overall process improvement as we build and scale the global team
• Support financial statement audits with external auditors, which includes the preparation, maintenance, and oversight of audit-ready tax calculations and workpapers
• Support in maintenance of the tax compliance calendars and work with the tax director and external tax advisors to maintain compliance
• Support in transfer pricing, and various other global tax initiatives
• Partake in ad hoc accounting or finance projects and analyses.

To help us level up, you'll ideally have:

• 2+ years of tax accounting experience, Big Four experience preferred
• Degree in tax
• Professional Certification (Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant or equivalent), or working towards
• Thrives on collaboration and operates with a strong internal stakeholder mentality
• Strong ability to quickly identify both risks and opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on both process improvements and results
• Able to cope with a dynamic and high change environment
• Takes ownership for responsibilities with a positive attitude
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Proactive self-starter, resourceful with a strong work ethic
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Experience with Netsuite
• 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.