Specialist Tax Graduate Trainee

Who are we? In the UK we have over 3,300 employees across 14 locations, delivering an outstanding client experience. We are an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

Tax: We are dedicated to helping you build a rewarding career. We value your expertise, experience, and ambition, encouraging you to bring your ideas and creativity to our national tax team.

• Experts in the field: You will undertake qualifications to allow you to build the skills and knowledge to expertly navigate the UK tax landscape. Your team will support you in your journey to professional excellence; whether dealing with employment taxes, corporate profits, international transactions, or personal income.
• Client-focused solutions: Work with a diverse range of clients, from individuals to large multinationals, providing tailored tax advice. Our team works with other specialists across different service lines, advising on tax, regulations and accounting and how that impacts the risk and governance of our clients.
• Commitment to excellence: Join a team that prioritises quality and trust. Our high standards ensure that every piece of advice we provide supports clients to make the most appropriately informed decisions. We are experts in managing risk and providing the latest advice, keeping on top of regulatory changes and developments in society.

About the Employment Tax team: The Employment Tax team provides advice and support to our clients in a wide variety of areas, working across Public and Private Sector organisations to help them find solutions to areas including:

• How should benefits and expenses like staff parties and company cars be treated for tax purposes?
• How do employers manage National Minimum Wage compliance?
• Does having employees working remotely create tax issues and how can these be managed?
• What happens if we identify an error and need to disclose to HMRC?

These situations are critical for organisations to get right. By being there to support organisations, we can help them mitigate risk, enhance reward strategy and be well placed to recruit, retain key talent to help grow in the future. By being part of the Employment Tax team you will have the opportunity to learn, shape approach and provide both pragmatic and technical advisory services to a whole range of clients, ranging from family owned businesses to large FTSE 100 international organisations.

About the role: You will be part of a growing, successful team preparing and delivering high-quality services to clients. You will work with a broad range of clients, covering several sectors – including Public and Private Sector organisations. You will help organisations grow, mitigate and manage their risks more effectively, by helping enhance employee reward, reducing employer costs and putting more robust governance controls on key tax and reward risk areas in place.

We operate a hybrid working model, so as a trainee you will split your time between working from home, visiting the office, client sites when required or studying for your professional exams.

During your first two years you will:

• Attend client meetings, helping organisations find solutions to complex compliance and reward matters.
• Research legislation, case law and be involved in creating new ways to better support organisations.
• Draft articles for publication on our website and other third party sites.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in other services, offices and countries.
• Learn how to use the tax software and systems.

By the end of your final year you will:

• Work on a range of different advisory engagements across UK tax covering a range of technical areas.
• Develop a strong technical knowledge of the UK tax legislation.
• Coach and lead more junior team members on advisory engagements.
• Understand the way in which different corporate entities operate across a range of sectors.
• Work directly with our clients and begin developing relationships with those clients to deliver on repeat engagements.
• Begin to manage advisory engagements, including planning, budgeting and project managing different service lines.
• Develop a strong understanding of our control and risk management procedure.

You are joining us as a permanent employee, so the three years is only the beginning of your exceptional career journey.

Minimum Requirements:

• On track or have obtained an undergraduate degree. Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don’t always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self – academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed.
• Deep curiosity to learn new things and is naturally inquisitive.
• The ability to think critically, solve problems and share knowledge with others.
• A commitment to self-development and learning.
• Strong sense of ownership of duties and high levels of responsibility to deliver on promises.
• Always looks to try their best in all they do and always looking for ways to improve.
• Enjoys meeting and engaging with new people with an underlying respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity.
• Works well under pressure and has a positive ‘can-do’ attitude if faced with challenging situations.
• Excellent time management skills.
• A willingness to travel and adhere to our flexible working environment.

Fully funded professional qualification for this role: Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) / Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA)

Additional qualification(s): Level 7 apprenticeship

Benefits:

• Annual Leave + Charitable Giving
• Dental Insurance
• Wellbeing Benefits
• Virtual GP
• Cycle to Work
• Gym Discounts
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Flexible Benefits