Junior Business Analyst / Non‐Technical Team Member - B2B SaaS (Equity)

Compensation: This is an early-stage role. There is no salary at this stage; compensation is via meaningful equity with respect to the contract, with the intention to move to paid compensation as the company grows.

About Taxat

Taxat is building an AI-driven tax compliance "defence layer" for UK accountants - designed to help Self Assessment filings become evidence-backed and enquiry-ready.

Our platform runs alongside existing tools and focuses on reducing the time and stress of "defensive reconciliation" by:

• Generating a Defence Graph that links each return figure to supporting evidence
• Creating a Compliance Risk Twin (cross-source reconciliation / risk visibility)
• Producing a Defence Score (0–100) and a prioritised action list ("Nightly Autopilot") to guide what to fix before filing

We are not affiliated with HMRC and we do not claim to predict investigation outcomes - we're building a decision-support and evidence/traceability system for accountants.

Website: taxat.co.uk

The role (Junior Business Analyst, early-career friendly)

We're looking for a non‐technical team member / business analyst who can help shape the business side from the ground up: customer discovery, go-to-market, partnerships, ops, and strategy.

This is ideal if you're a:

• Recent graduate / final‐year student
• Extra point if you are University of Essex Graduate
• Early‐career professional
• ...from Business, Accounting, Psychology (strong user research/customer insight), or Law (contracts + compliance interest welcome).

What you'll do

Customer & market work

• Interview accountants and tax advisers, summarise insights, and turn them into clear requirements and priorities
• Map the UK practice workflow (before submission → checks → evidence gathering) and identify where Taxat saves time and reduces risk
• Competitor/alternative research (TaxCalc, Capium, Xero/QBO workflows, checklists, insurance) and positioning

Business analysis & strategy

• Help define pricing hypotheses, packaging, and early sales motions (beta → paid pilots → subscription)
• Build simple financial models, unit economics assumptions, and adoption/ROI narratives

Go-to-market & growth

• Create outreach lists (accounting firms), draft messages, manage a lightweight CRM, and run follow-ups
• Support partnerships/integrations strategy (ecosystem thinking: Xero/QBO/Sage + capture tools)

Operations

• Help structure onboarding, documentation, and feedback loops for pilots/design partners (what "success" looks like, what we measure, what to improve)

If you're a law student (optional focus)

• Support contract/commercial tasks: beta/design-partner terms, basic compliance checklists, and vendor/customer due diligence prep (you won't be giving formal legal advice - more "operations & documentation support").

What we're looking for

Must-haves

• Strong written and spoken communication (you'll talk to real customers)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration (startup environment)
• Analytical mindset: can break problems down, write structured notes, build simple spreadsheets
• Reliable and proactive: you follow through and keep things moving

Nice-to-haves (not required)

• Interest in B2B SaaS, fintech/regtech, accounting workflows, or compliance products
• Experience running interviews / surveys / research (psychology background welcome)
• Basic understanding of the UK tax/accounting ecosystem (or excitement to learn)

Time commitment

Flexible to start. Typical range:

• 20–30 hours/week initially (alongside studies/work), with a path to increase as we grow.