Financial Accountant, Cover Genius
Tax
+ Employee Stock Options
B2B insurance and warranty API
Open for applications
B2B insurance and warranty API
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect all the customers of the world’s largest digital companies.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- This role reports into the Director of Tax
- 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
Our take
Insurance plans and warranties are staples of a successful digital company, but setting them up is challenging. Businesses must compare and write contracts with insurance providers which require the expensive assistance of legal and financial teams, Add to this the cost of web designers who can embed the service online, and insurance and warranties quickly become unaffordable to smaller businesses.
Cover Genius provides end-to-end APIs called XCover and XClaim for embedding insurance and warranty plans onto online stores, preventing the business from having to compare, arrange and deploy insurance plans themselves. The company's policies are for any business, can be translated into over 40 languages, and are designed to be read easily without unnecessary jargon.
Whilst other insurtech companies offer similar services to Cover Genius, the company has uniquely focused on ensuring its plans are easily readable, translatable, and dynamically priced based on personal requirements. Although the company initially aimed to facilitate insurance and warranty plans for smaller businesses, it also partners with large enterprises such as Ryanair, Amazon, and eBay. In 2024 it secured impressive Series E funding off the back of a year where it achieved 107% year-on-year growth.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$80m
SERIES E
Nov 2022
$70m
SERIES D
Total funding: $241.9m
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Conditions
- Employee Stock Options
- Ongoing Learning
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Initiatives
- When From Home When You Want
- Peer Bonuses and Founder Awards Program
- International Working Opportunities
- GC Gives giveback program, led by the team
Company values
- We Make It Our Own - We’re proud of who we are and what we do. We bring our own way of doing things and we make it happen.
- We Make It Better - We bring new ideas, think differently and challenge the norm. We look for areas to improve and we own the changes that we desire.
- We Succeed Together - We’re better when we work together. When we need help we always say “yes”. And when we pull it off, we celebrate together.
- We Create Magic - We make hard things simple and old things novel. We’re making world firsts in one of the oldest industries.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
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Leadership
Angus McDonald
(CEO)They were the General Manager of Emerge Digital. Formerly the VP of International Business Development for iClick Interactive Asia Limited.
Chris Bayley
(CIO)They were the former Business Development Manager for Google. Previously an Investor and Executive Director of Software.com from 2009 to 2019.
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