UK Tax Assistant

Beazley; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm in Birmingham seeks a Tax Assistant for a six-month fixed term contract. In this role, you'll support tax compliance and reporting, work with a team of 11, and gain experience in diverse tax-related tasks. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in Excel, good communication skills, and either a finance degree or a desire to pursue tax qualifications. This position offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for personal development and benefits such as commuting reimbursement and free lunches.

Benefits

Commuting reimbursement

Free in-office lunch

Qualifications

• Must be able to work as part of a team.
• Good Excel skills are essential.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with corporation tax returns and VAT returns.
• Support tax accounting and reporting.
• Help produce management information for stakeholders.

Skills

Teamwork

Excel proficiency

Interpersonal and communication skills

Proactive self-starter

Time management

Education

University degree in finance/business/accounting

Tax/accounting qualification (ATT/CTA/ACCA/ACA)

Job description

Job description and person specification

Exciting opportunity to join Beazley’s Finance team. We are looking for a Tax Assistant [based in Birmingham?] on a six month fixed term contract to help support the team.

Who We Are

Beazley is a FTSE 100 insurance company. Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide beautifully designed insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

The tax team is currently 11 people and we need additional resource to manage our growing responsibilities.

Our Culture

We employ over 2,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our family‑feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that’s big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.

Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers –

1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing.

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious I&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as iLearn (our own learning & development platform), LinkedIn Learning, our mentorship program and external qualification sponsorship. You also get access to our fantastic array of benefits which include commuting reimbursement and free in‑office lunch.

Job Title: Tax Assistant (6 months FTC)

Division: Tax / Finance

Key Relationships:

Finance team, Underwriters, Tax Advisors and Auditors.

Job Summary:

A key role in our tax team, supporting the rest of the tax team managing tax compliance and reporting obligations as well as supporting the business on tax queries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with the preparation and submission of corporation tax returns, VAT returns and insurance premium tax returns as needed for group entities.
• Assist with payments across Europe.
• Assisting with tax accounting and reporting for entity and consolidated financial statements.
• Assisting on other tax and finance projects.
• Ad hoc tax or accounting tasks including co‑ordination and collection of information to prepare internal reports.
• Support the wider tax team (11 people) with other areas of taxation as required.
• Help produce management information for internal stakeholders, showing the work of the tax team.
• To comply with relevant Beazley procedures and policies.

Personal Specification:

Skills and Abilities

• Must be able to work as part of a team
• Computer skills – Excel in particular
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Proactive, self‑starter, seeks continuous improvement
• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise

Knowledge and Experience

• University degree in finance/ business/ accounting preferred
• Tax / accounting qualification (ATT/CTA/ACCA/ACA) (including part‑qualified or willingness to study towards one) also desirable.

Competencies

• Building relationships
• Analytical thinking
• Service focus
• Team working
• Conceptual thinking
• Forward thinking