Tax Trainee

**Are you a natural and creative problem solver? Do you like to think outside the box? Do you have an interest in Law and working with numbers? Would you like to become ’the go to person’ for your clients?**

We are currently on a look out a bright individual who is a keen on becoming a specialist within one of the areas of tax which can make your clients become a bigger player on the market, VAT (Value-Added Tax). We are currently looking for someone with aninterest in becoming an expert in a specific area, enjoys problem solving, making sense of numbers as well as wanting to become a full-scale advisor to clients which could involve negotiating on their behalf to using the law to advise on the best course ofaction.

**What can you gain?**
- Competitive salary and benefit package.
- Work-life as well as work-study balance.
- Agile working policy with working from home opportunities and flexible hours,
- 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.
- Secondments opportunities further down your career and more

**What will my day to day look like?**

As a Tax Trainee (VAT) you can expect to be involved in the following responsibilities:

- Learning the fundamentals on the job as well as in classroom,
- Carrying out technical research, analysis and reports,
- Coming up with solutions with your team,
- Identifying areas of risk by conducting compliance health checks,
- Attending client meetings and advising on the best course of action,
- Assist with any inspections, address reporting requirements and registrations,

**Who are we?**

We're a dedicated team of like-minded VAT professionals, servicing the needs of a growing base of medium sized and large entrepreneurial businesses. As a member of one of the largest international accountancy associations in the world, a large amount ofwork we do addresses cross border VAT issues as well as other indirect tax matters, such as customs duty.

We are ranked among the **UK's top 13 accountancy firms,** therefore our varied client base are able to benefit from a high level of technical expertise which we are able to provide.

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.? We've also beenawarded the GOLD standard, by Investors in People. It'san exciting time to join the firm

You will have contact with other members of the business from the very start, that is why your ability to build great business relationships is so important.

**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 achieved **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 hearing more about you

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