Att Tax Trainee

**Maidenhead Office (Thames Valley)**

Are you a bright student looking for a career in Tax? Would you like to get a head start with some relevant 'on the job' experience while you study for your recognised qualification? Then starting your career with our Tax programme might be for you

**You're graduating or leaving school, what next? How about**:

- Full study support to gain a globally recognised qualification with the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
- Linked learning approach with Kaplan or First Intuition, who are award winning training providers.
- On the job training and practical experience.
- Face to face contact with decision makers early on.
- A career within a national organisation, with access to a in a global network of 30,000 people across 147 countries.
- Working with a wide range of entrepreneurs, owner managed businesses and subsidiaries of large international groups.

**Who are we?**

We're a dedicated team of like-minded accountancy professionals. Our clients range from top fashion retailers, leisure & hospitality businesses to renewable energy enterprises and we get involved in issues that affect gaming developers and motorsports engineers.

We are ranked among the **UK's top 12 accountancy firms**, combining high levels of technical expertise with the kind of personal service often only found in smaller firms.

In 2020, we won the **Best Advisory Services** category of the new Business Resilience Awards, organised by Accountancy Age. Previously, we won **National Firm of the Year, Tax Team of the Year and Graduate and Non-Graduate programme of the Year** at the British Accountancy Awards, we internationally re-branded, and we grew substantially with a few high-profile mergers. It's an excitingtime to join the firm

As part of a multi award winning medium sized firm, you will have the opportunity to work with our wide and eclectic client base across the accounting and financial spectrum. That means really getting to grips with the inner workings of a company and findingways to help them - whether that¿s working on taxing technicalities or devising strategies to help them fulfil their commercial potential.

You'll have client contact from the very start, that's why your ability to build great business relationships is just as important as your ability with numbers.

**What will I do?**

As a Tax Trainee, you'll start off by learning the fundamentals, including carrying out technical tax research, producing tax computations, advising clients on their tax requirements and negotiating with HM Revenue & Customs. As your technical knowledge,commercial acumen and confidence grow, you'll have the opportunity to begin advising clients on their tax affairs and deliver outstanding levels of client care. That's why your ability to build great business relationships is just as important as your abilitywith numbers.

We'll make sure you have the right experience, personal development and training to make your career stimulating and rewarding. We'll carefully balance your practical experience to reinforce your professional training. Combined, these two crucial elementswill help you achieve your qualification.

Along with your peers, you will be assigned mentors who will support and guide you as well as dedicated tutors who will ensure your progress and development is on track.

Our Tax Trainees come from a variety of different academic and cultural backgrounds.

**Please note that our tax training programme is available to both school leavers and graduates, but a degree is not essential.**

**Entry Requirements**

We do not require Tax Trainees to have a business or financial background. However, we do ask that applicants for our Tax trainee programme have achieved or are predicted to achieve **at least 112 UCAS points**(based on the new 2017 UCAS Tariff) from 3 A-Levels, or equivalent, all achieved during the same exam year. This excludes General Studies. We also ask that graduate applicants have either achieved or are working toachieve **at least a 2:1 at university.**

We are looking forward to reading more about your academic background, motivations of starting a career within accountancy and why you have applied to MacIntyre Hudson