Tax Assistant

Location:

Peterborough

Department:

Finance

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

Not Specified

Job Description

Tax Assistant

Your team: The News UK Tax Team comprises 7 individuals across Peterborough and London managing the tax affairs for our worldwide business.

Your role: You will play a crucial role in supporting our Tax Team, gaining exposure to Corporation Tax, Employment Tax, and VAT compliance cycles. This unique opportunity to build a solid foundation in tax compliance and accounting skills in the media industry.

Day to day you will:

VAT:

• Collate and analyse data sources for UK and Irish VAT compliance.

• Prepare and file JV VAT returns for Octave and Newsprinters.

• Prepare overseas VAT returns for multiple jurisdictions, collaborating with Deloitte as needed.

• Clear VAT flags in Risk Centre and respond to business onboarding queries.

Employment Tax:

• Collate PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) computations.

• Manage monthly and quarterly PSA provisioning, including tax calculations and journal recharges.

• Assist with monthly IR35/Self Employment tax audits and liaise with relevant teams.

• Manage US entity onboarding of contributors/suppliers and ensure IRS forms are correct.

Corporation Tax:

• Assist the Corporation Tax team during busy periods with data analysis and CT computation.

Other Responsibilities:

• Support senior members of the tax team with ad-hoc tasks.

• Assist the Tax Analyst in day-to-day administration.

• Occasionally work in the London offices when required.

• Participate in the wider tax team weekly meetings.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Desire to study AAT/ATT

• Basic understanding of Balance Sheet reconciliations

• A desire to build up a solid base of tax compliance and accounting skills

• Able to work on their own initiative with good interpersonal skills, as well as being able to take and understand instructions from management

• A high level of IT literacy in Microsoft Office packages

We are News UK : One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks

• Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• Private medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• 25 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected] .