Tax Trainee

**TAX TRAINEE**

**Q**: Do you want to embark on a career path and be part of an amazing team?

**Q**: Do you want to enjoy working with a diverse range of clientele in a fast paced and professional environment?

We have an excellent opening for someone to join our team in the Lincoln area. This is a **full time role** which offers **flexibility**, a great **work life balance**, great **job satisfaction** and the opportunity to become part of the **Forrester Boyd family**.

**Why work with us?**

**We support - **we’re happy to discuss flexible working options to support a healthy work and life balance.

**We recognise - **we celebrate and reward long service with awards and promotions.

**We socialise - **we hold regular social events and offer plenty of networking opportunities.

**We care - **we give you access to our wellbeing programme offering confidential advice and support.

**We develop - **we ensure staff have a wealth of technical and soft skill courses at their fingertips to enable ongoing learning and personal development.

**What does the job involve?**

You’ll be working within our tax team to deliver tax services across the practice for a diverse range of clients.

A typical working day could include:

- Personal Tax Return preparation
- P11D return preparation
- Company Tax Return preparation
- Assisting non tax specialist colleagues with tax queries
- Preparation of reports and providing assistance with ad-hoc tax planning advice
- Liaising with HM Revenue & Customs

**What do you need to bring to the table?**

To be successful, you must possess the following skills:

- A good desire to learn on the job
- Good numeracy skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Good teamwork skills
- Time management skills
- Strong IT abilities
- Accept instruction from senior personnel

To be part of our family, we want someone who is organised, friendly, and reliable, has great communication skills, good teamwork skills and the ability and willingness to learn.

Our staff pride themselves on being friendly and approachable which enables trainees to get the best learning experience with on the job training.

**In return**
- You will secure a permanent role with an established and well known accountancy Firm
- **A competitive monthly salary** working for Forrester Boyd with regular pay increases depending on exam success
- **A fully funded and fully supported ATT qualification with the option to go further if desired**:

- **20 days annual leave** plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
- **A dedicated mentor to oversee your training and provide support**:

- **Life Assurance** - 3 times salary
- **Employee Referral Bonus**:

- **Employee Assistance programme**:

- **Pension**:

- Regular **Social Events**:

- **Cycle to work scheme**:

- **Dress down Friday**:

- **Charitable Events**:

- **Free eye tests**

**Need to know a bit more about us?**

Forrester Boyd is one of the largest independent chartered accountancy practices with offices in Grimsby, Beverley, Louth, Scunthorpe, Skegness and Hull. We offer a full spectrum of accountancy, audit, tax and business advisory services to a wide and diverse client base. As well as accountancy, Forrester Boyd also provides clients with corporate finance and wealth management advice through its group of firms. We have a pro-active and forward thinking partnership, who are driven to deliver continual growth and development of the practice. We have 16 partners with an average age of 40 who are very focussed on continual improvement and development of the firm, its services, its efficiency and its teams.

This provides a really great place to work. We support our people by nurturing talent, providing opportunities for progression and career development, and recruiting the best people to join our firm.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Lincoln, Lincolnshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Are you able to reliably commute to our Lincoln office?
- Do you have 3 A levels?

**Education**:

- A-Level or equivalent (required)

Work Location: In person