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Role: |
Finance Assistant, Tax and Controls |
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Reports to: |
Statutory, Tax and Controls Accountant |
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Job Family: |
Finance |
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AerFin Band: |
E |
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No. of direct reports: |
0 |
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Location: |
Newport |
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Date reviewed: |
28/09/2026 |
About the role
The Finance Assistant, Tax and Controls supports the Statutory, Tax and Controls Accountant across tax compliance, statutory requirements and the ongoing development of AerFin’s internal control environment. The role acts as Finance’s payroll lead and single point of contact for payroll, payroll tax and related control matters, coordinating with the People Team, external payroll providers and other stakeholders to support accurate, timely and compliant delivery. The role is suited to someone with relevant finance, accounting or tax experience who wishes to build broad practical experience in tax, compliance and financial controls within a growing international business.
Responsibilities:
- Support corporate and indirect tax compliance preparation, review and submission across the Group.
- Maintain the tax and statutory compliance calendar, tracking deadlines and escalating risks promptly.
- Prepare schedules, reconciliations and documentation for corporation tax, VAT and other tax returns.
- Coordinate tax authority, adviser and auditor requests, ensuring evidence is complete and organised.
- Act as Finance’s lead contact for payroll, payroll tax and related controls.
- Coordinate payroll inputs and outputs with People team and payroll providers, reviewing reports, reconciliations and postings.
- Support PAYE and employee tax compliance, including benefits reporting and PSA processes.
- Own the payroll control checklist, evidence reviews and ensure issues are resolved promptly.
- Support documentation, operation and testing of financial controls, including the controls register and action tracker.
- Work with control owners to improve design, ownership, governance and compliance.
- Track control deficiencies and remediation actions, providing clear status updates.
- Support audits by preparing documentation, responding to queries and maintaining audit trails.
- Assist with statutory reporting and wider compliance schedules for external advisers.
- Support and review branch accounting for Miami, Singapore and Ireland, including reconciliations and local reporting.
- Identify opportunities to standardise, simplify or automate tax, payroll and control processes.
- Maintain process notes, policies and procedures and provide practical stakeholder guidance.
- Maintain tax and payroll knowledge, escalating relevant changes for review.
Qualifications & Experience
- Relevant finance, accounting or tax qualification, or working towards one, such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, ATT or equivalent.
- Relevant experience in tax, payroll, controls, audit or finance support.
- Developing knowledge of UK tax compliance, including corporation tax, VAT, PAYE and employee taxes.
- Payroll process, reconciliation or payroll tax experience desirable.
- Understanding of controls, risk management, evidence, review and approval.
- Strong Excel skills and confidence using finance, payroll or ERP systems.
- Excellent attention to detail and accurate reconciliations, schedules and documentation.
- Strong organisation, deadline management and action follow-through.
- Clear communication across Finance, People, advisers and payroll providers.
- Proactive, curious and improvement-focused, with confidence to raise issues and solutions.
- Discretion when handling confidential payroll and employee information.