Tax Assistant Graduate

Overview

Working in our employer solutions tax team you will advise companies on one of their most vital assets - their people. Attracting and retaining the best talent is vital to business success, so we work closely with our clients to help them navigate the complexities of UK and global employment tax rules and advise them on the most effective ways to reward and incentivise their people.

As you grow with us, you ll get to work with HR & finance teams or even the most senior executives globally. Our private client tax team work closely with a huge variety of interesting individuals and their families, helping to navigate the complexities of the UK and international tax rules and compliance that impact their personal tax position. As you build your skills as an adviser, you ll get the opportunity to work directly with the people that are personally impacted by your advice.

In your first year you ll focus your training on the foundations of our private client services (tax return compliance) with opportunities to diversify into tax advisory services. You ll study ATT followed by CTA.

Our corporate tax team work with organisations of all sizes, in all sectors and all over the world. From fast-growing privately-owned technology businesses to multinational groups listed on the London Stock Exchange with operations all over the world, you ll get involved in helping your clients comply with the reporting requirements and navigate the UK and global tax landscape. From day one, you ll learn the foundations of UK tax compliance and work closely with clients, advising on how to navigate an increasingly complicated UK and global tax landscape.

You ll study for the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACA) qualification through the ICAEW and CTA is optional in the future. For students in Scotland or Northern Ireland, instead of ICAEW, you ll study through ICAS or CAI respectively.

As a subset of the corporate tax team, you may be interested in joining the Innovation Reliefs national team. The focus of this team is helping our UK corporate clients save tax (or even receive cash from the government) by getting tax relief for money a company spends, investing in cutting edge research and development, commercialising new inventions through registering patents, or in video games and other creative sector developments.

Clients value the work this team does and it is a key pillar of the current UK government s strategy to encourage investment in innovation. You will gain exposure to some of the latest developments in science and technology across all industries, working with a range of different businesses. You ll study ATT followed by optional CTA.

Transfer Pricing is another subset of our corporate tax team. You will be part of a national team advising multinational clients on how they price products, services, assets and financing between the companies in their group. This team works with our clients to understand their business, providing practical solutions and explaining complex technical concepts clearly and effectively. It means understanding and keeping up with a rapidly changing international tax system alongside teams from across RSM s global transfer pricing specialist network.

You ll study ACA followed by optional transfer pricing paper of ADIT or the full ADIT qualification if preferred.

A subset of the corporate tax team, the Capital Allowances team focuses on helping our clients optimise the tax relief they get when they spend money on qualifying fixed assets (e.g. bits of kit in their factory). You will get to visit companies  sites, for example when they are building a new plant. A great team to join if you want to wear a hard hat on the day job.

You ll study ATT followed by CTA and/or RICS. In Team Tax, you will combine work and study, gaining an understanding of tax as you build a career you love. You ll study towards the ACA, ATT and/or CTA professional qualifications (depending on which bit of Team Tax you join).

Tax is a technically demanding discipline, so we look for graduates who are always up for a challenge and thrive grasping new subjects. You will get to work directly with clients. If it s an individual it might be understanding their family wealth, how they create it and how they want to share it with future generations. If it s a company then it might be understanding how they plan to grow, benefit from government tax incentives, return profits to stakeholders, expand internationally, or exit their business in a tax efficient manner.

See below for further details about applying and the different and exciting areas of Team Tax that have vacancies for this…