Tax - Tax Reporting - Graduate Trainee

Overview

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the UK and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners. We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future. You ll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you re supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one.

You ll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team. Together, we grow, belong and impact.

Tax at Forvis Mazars

At Forvis Mazars, we re 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.

The Tax Reporting 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 and domestic owner managed businesses.

Joining the Corporate Tax team has meant I have been able to work on a wide range of clients and gain valuable experience. The team has helped me develop my technical skills as well as support me through my exam period whilst transitioning into working life. Every story is different at Forvis Mazars. Our people have amazing, personal experiences so the best way to learn about life here is to hear it first hand.

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.

• Learn how to use Alphatax (the tax software) and processes in order to prepare a corporation tax computation and return and learn how to prepare tax numbers for financial statements.
• Develop a thorough understanding of financial statements and the nature of the clients  business to complete corporation tax computation.
• Be able to obtain relevant information from other departments and clients whilst building good communication with both.
• 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.
• Support the team with client relationships and requests.

• Have a structured client portfolio focusing on tax reporting to manage.
• Work on a range of different tax reporting and advisory engagements across UK tax covering a range of technical areas.
• Develop a great 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 tax reporting engagements, including planning, budgeting and project managing different service lines.
• Develop a keen understanding of our control and risk management procedures.
• Have experience in supporting business development to bring new client wins to the team and to your portfolio.

• On track or have obtained an undergraduate degree. Excellent 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;
• High 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 have a positive can-do attitude if faced with challenging situations;
• Excellent time management skills;
• A willingness to travel and adhere to our adaptableworking environment.

Fully funded professional qualification for this role: ACA/CTA

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