Tax Finance Analyst - FTC until July 2027

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. 

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. 

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.  

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.  

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day. 

We’re recruiting for a Tax Finance Analyst to join us on an FTC till the end of July 2027. We’re offering a competitive base salary. 

We’re looking for a Finance Analyst to join our Tax Operations function in Cardiff. This is a great opportunity to contribute to accurate and reliable tax reporting across the business, support colleagues with tax‑related queries, and play an important role in our wider Group Cost Management activity. You’ll be joining a collaborative team that encourages learning, supports development, and values different perspectives.

What you’ll be doing:

• Coordinating and collating tax data for funds tax, corporation tax, employment tax and VAT reporting submitted to HMRC and other tax authorities
• Working closely with the Group Tax team to ensure tax rules and methodologies are clearly understood and applied accurately
• Providing guidance and support to colleagues across the business for tax operations queries
• Delivering analytical support, management information and reporting to aid tax‑related decision making
• Supporting the wider cost management team with month‑end and quarterly deliverables including journal postings, reconciliations and cost analysis
• Maintaining and contributing to strong financial controls by updating processes, guides, frameworks and process maps
• Identifying and progressing opportunities for process improvement and supporting their implementation
• Collaborating across teams to ensure data accuracy, consistency and timely delivery of requirements

Who we’re looking for:

• A part‑qualified accountant or a finance professional with relevant experience in tax or analytical finance
• Strong Excel capability, including working with data from multiple sources and ensuring accuracy
• A general understanding of tax principles and their application
• Awareness of the financial services sector and its regulators (desirable but not essential)
• Clear and confident communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively across teams
• A proactive approach to problem‑solving, organisation and continuous improvement

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.