Tax School Leaver Apprentice Trainee (Corporate Tax Compliance) - Edinburgh - September 2024

Edinburgh, , United Kingdom

£ Competitive salary

At Mazars we have a wide range of opportunities for you to gain experience in a firm that truly cares about your aspirations. Our business is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, and we are known for giving ambitious people early responsibility and exposure.

Are you a school leaver with a keen attention to detail? Do you enjoy working with lots of different types of people and have a commitment to further learning? This is a great opportunity to join a team that specialises in providing expert tax advice to clients within a wide range of industries.

About the role

The role of a Tax Trainee is to assist in the provision of corporate tax compliance and advisory services as part of a specialist team to a portfolio of clients.

They are to assist in the preparation of company's corporation tax computations and returns and to ensure that they show a true representation of the company's tax position and provide bespoke advice to clients on their tax affairs.

You will be provided an opportunity to work with colleagues in different tax disciplines during your time on our graduate programme, resulting in a broad understanding of the services we can offer our clients.

We are now operating 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 three years you will:

- Learn how to use tax software and systems in order to prepare a corporation tax computation and return.

- Develop a thorough understanding of financial statements and the nature of the clients' business in order to complete the corporation tax computation to the best of your ability.

- Be able to obtain relevant information from other departments and clients whilst building good communication with both.

- Be able to help write reports and produce other client deliverables to assist the client in explaining issues, risks and solutions in easily understandable language that they can act on.

By the end of your final year you will:

- Work on a range of different compliance and 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 as well as the different challenges facing our clients.

- 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 procedures

About the team

Overview of the Tax service line

At Mazars we'll help you build on your expertise, experience and ambition to develop a rewarding and successful career. We want you to be yourself, to bring your ideas and creativity and to feel inspired as part of our national tax team.

We provide bespoke advice in all areas of taxation, helping our clients to navigate the complexities of tax codes, often in multiple jurisdictions, and to help them ensure they are fulfilling all their obligations and paying the correct amount of tax. In this way we help them to manage an area of significant financial and reputational risk and to make properly informed decisions about their tax position whether they are an individual, a business owner or a corporate organisation. We also help clients resolve any disputes they have with the tax authorities as swiftly as possible.

We cover every aspect of taxation for clients, whether on employment, corporate profits or gains, movements of individuals or businesses from one country to another, international transactions or on personal income, gains or wealth.

An introduction to our Indirect Tax team:

The team focuses on a broad range of corporate clients, meeting their tax advisory and compliance needs in an environment of fast paced economic change, combined with complex and changing legislation both in the UK and overseas. Our corporate clients range from listed multinationals, large entrepreneurial businesses, domestic owner managed businesses and clients in the financial services sector.

About you

We are looking for exceptional candidates to join our team who demonstrate the following:

- Interpersonal skills; the ability to build client relationships with a foundation of trust and responsibility.

- Analytical skills; the ability to think critically, research and solve problems.

- Attention to detail and strong time-management skills.

- Commitment to self-development & learning.

- Affinity with our values; in particular, respect for individuals, diversity and integrity.

- Teamwork; the ability to function and contribute effectively as part of a high achieving team.

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. We balance your academic results alongside the aptitude assessment within our recruitment process to ensure that you will be successful in your role with us.

Learning and development

We offer a diverse range of experiences, with prestigious clients and dynamic projects across a range of sectors and geographies. We offer an excellent technical grounding and real responsibility from the start, with early exposure to clients and partners. We have a culture of coaching, feedback, mentorship and one-to-one support, so you will learn from working closely with accessible colleagues and leaders who have so much to share. Most importantly, we give our people the tools and support they need to define their own career path and realise their full potential. As part of your training, we offer the opportunity to gain a professional qualification whilst earning a competitive salary and gaining invaluable experience.

This includes funding, time off to study, attend college and complete online courses. Your professional qualification is only part of the story at Mazars; we support all our trainees with a blended approach to training and development including classroom study, 1:1 coaching, and soft skills training. We will fund your study towards the combined ATT/CTA qualification.

You will be supported by a mentor and an appraising manager to keep your career and aspirations on track. And you will be allocated a buddy who will support you to settle into the team and navigate your first year at Mazars.

Inclusion and diversity

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond, is fully supported to be their unique self and provided with a level playing field. To read more about our approach click here.