JOB SUMMARY
Senior Tax Analyst reporting to the VP-Tax responsible for tax compliance, tax provision, and
various ad hoc tax planning and analysis projects with other members of the tax team.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES :
Tax Compliance:
- Prepare and/or review of U.S. Federal, state, and other country income tax
returns and information filings
- Prepare Bermuda substance-based tax credit and other country tax credit
calculations, including compilation and review of compensation and expense
data and preparation of spreadsheets and other documentation
- Prepare and/or review of Bermuda corporate income tax returns and tax credit
claim form
- Collaborate with external service providers
- Assist tax leadership in resolving tax controversy matters
- Computation and recording of income tax return provision to return true-up
calculations
- Enhance and maintain tax basis and other tax attribute calculations
Income Tax Accounting:
- Prepare portions of the group consolidated global income tax provision which
includes the following:
- US GAAP basis tax provision preparation or review on an entity-by-entity
basis utilizing Corptax tax provision software
- Tax account analysis and reconciliation
- Deferred tax asset realizability analysis and modeling
- Preparation and assistance with tax disclosures for SEC, NAIC and local
financial reporting
- Maintenance of the internal control documentation
- Interactions with internal and external auditors and tax advisors
- Preparation or review of tax and tax credit forecast computations
- Collaboration with the corporate and local accounting and finance
functions throughout the quarterly close process
- Preparation or review of separate company tax provisions under various
- local accounting guidance
Tax Planning and Analysis:
- Assist senior tax team members in the following areas
- Tax research
- Transfer pricing analysis and documentation
- Research, analysis, and modeling related to business initiatives
• Effectively use IT systems and applications in the continued automation of tax function
processes and computations
JOB COMPETENCIES
- Effective team player with good organizational and interpersonal skills who is
comfortable managing multiple tasks
- Eagerly assumes new tasks and responsibilities
- Exhibits effective analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Communicates effectively
- Receptive to new ideas. Reacts positively to changing conditions
- Demonstrates sensitivity, respects cultural differences, and acts in an ethical manner at
all times
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- College degree in Accounting
- 5 years of corporate or public accounting tax experience or 8 years of accounting and
finance experience, preferably in the insurance and reinsurance industry
- Proficient with IT systems including tax return and tax provision software, GL accounting
systems, Wdesk, and Microsoft Office
- Masters in Tax or CPA/Chartered Accountant a plus
Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.
Skills Required
- College degree in Accounting
- Five years of corporate or public accounting tax experience, or eight years of accounting and finance experience
- Proficiency with IT systems, including tax return and tax provision software, GL accounting systems, Wdesk, and Microsoft Office
- Experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry
- Master's degree in Tax
- CPA or Chartered Accountant certification
What We Do
RenaissanceRe is one of the world’s leading reinsurance companies, consistently recognised for our innovation, technical excellence and creative problem-solving. Our clients are multi-national organizations and government entities who turn to us to help manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world, including climate change, natural hazards like wildfires and hurricanes, cyber threats and significant societal upheaval. We’re proud of our world-class reputation for exceptional performance and being a trusted partner, there for our clients when it matters most. Our corporate purpose is to protect communities and enable prosperity. When disaster strikes, the claims we pay help keep businesses open and communities rebuild. Ensuring that our technology ecosystem can anticipate and respond to unprecedented global change in the world order is an imperative. It is only through continuously seeking to innovate through transformative technology that we can deliver our strategic business priorities, aims, and objectives. RenaissanceRe’s name comes from our founders’ intention to create a renaissance in quantifying and managing risk. Our success depends on the unique way we combine information, experience and technology to empower our decisions. We have developed new and cutting-edge technologies since the day we started in 1993 and have long been recognized as pioneers and technical innovators; designing and engineering solutions to rapidly serve clients and help them dynamically manage their business
