Tax Accountant

Full Time

Finance

Hungary

This position is part of the US Information Reporting and Withholding Team within the Transamerica Corporate Finance Department which provides centralized services and support to the organization. This group focuses on establishing and maintaining organizational processes for US information return reporting and ensures Federal, State and Local tax reporting and withholding is performed and remitted in accordance with Internal Revenue Code, State and Local regulatory agencies.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the accounting, reporting and deposit of withholding tax related to information returns such as 1099, 1098, W-2, 5498, and 1042-S.
• Reconciles, investigates, corrects, and adjusts information in accordance with aggressive deadlines.
• Acquire basic US tax and regulatory knowledge.
• Reviews daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual system reports to ensure timely, accurate and complete tax information reporting. Adjust or create client tax form as needed.
• Learn and develop processes and systems used for life and annuity administration of tax regulations.
• Act as a liaison between the business units, legal and accounting on tax administration questions.
• Maintain records for functions not supported in the system(s) to support tax law including aggregation and foreign reporting.
• Seeks out potential areas of continuous improvement (for example, workflow, automated processes), by documenting business processes, identifying controls and deficiencies, testing identified controls, and work with internal departments for best practices.
• Using established procedures and working under immediate supervision, performs assigned tasks using analytical skills and ingenuity.
• Project work as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, or equivalent education/experience.
• Generally, 1-3 years of professional experience in tax, accounting, or comparable area.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Organizational skills to perform multiple assignments.
• Written/verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency using MS Office tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Information reporting experience desired (for example, US 1099, VAT, indirect tax)
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing, ability to handle multiple projects, willingness to take on new projects.
• Ability to work under pressure and show effective decision-making skills. Work effectively individually and within a team.

Our Culture

• Acting as One fosters an environment of positive collaboration.
• Accountability allows us to own the problem as well as the solution.
• Agility inspires new ideas, innovation and challenges the status quo.
• Customer Centricity encourages an above and beyond approach to our customer.

Working Conditions

Fast paced deadline-driven

What we offer

• Highly competitive annual pay
• A good work/life balance including annual leave and statutory holidays in accordance with the Hungarian labor regulations.
• Work from home in a hybrid working model.
• Pension and medical plan
• Yearly training budget, plus a large pool of in-house training to choose from
• Complex people programs to support your individual and team development.
• An opportunity to work with international offices and businesses, while being based in Budapest.
• And last, but not least: fun and energetic, on the ground and global team!

Aegon is an international financial service holding company headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. Our ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Our purpose is to help people live their best lives, which goal runs through all of our activities. The company has multiple locations across the globe, with core markets in the UK and the US, partnerships in Spain & Portugal, Brazil, and China and an Asset Management organization with locations in UK, US, NL and Hungary. In the Netherlands, Aegon generates value via a strategic shareholding in a market leading insurance and pensions company.

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center is supporting these businesses with IT, Finance, Risk, Model Validation, Actuarial, Audit and Asset management services with a growing team of approx. 300 people, based in Budapest, Hungary.

AGT Hungary IT Services LLC (HUN entity)

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