R&d Tax Trainee - City of London, United Kingdom - MHA Macintyre Hudson LLP

MHA Macintyre Hudson LLP

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City of London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Are you a bright student looking for a career in R&D Tax Incentives? Would you like to get a head start with some relevant 'on the job' experience while you study for your recognised qualification? Are you looking for that perfect blend of Technology andFinance? Then starting your career with our Tax programme might be for you

You're graduating, leaving school or looking for something new, what next? How about:

Competitive salary and benefit package.
Worklife as well as workstudy balance.
Agile working policy with working from home opportunities and flexible hours,
Working on recognising leadingedge scientific and technological developments in industry and learning how to safely qualify these for various R&D Tax Relief Schemes.
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 13 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 Yearat the British Accountancy Awards, we internationally re-branded, and we grew substantially with a few high-profile mergers.

It's an exciting time 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.

The Role

As a Tax Trainee within the R&D Team, you will be:

Participating in the Team's internal technical training programme with the objective of having a strong understanding of R&D Tax legislation and its interpretation on completion.
Conducting preliminary research in preparation for client workshops and attending these sessions to support technical interviews and financial data gathering.
Assessing and interpreting technical information gathered during workshops to draft the technical reports to support the R&D activity.
Gaining sector knowledge by proactively working with a wide variety of clients this will allow you to gain an understanding of a wide variety of innovative technologies across the fields of science and technology.

Skills & Qualities You Will Have to Succeed:

Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and logical, problem-solving midset
Strong numerical ability and great attention to detail
A genuine interest and curiosity in Software, Science, Technology & Innovation.
The ability to actively listen to others and ensure that they are understood.

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, but a genuine interest and/or degree in Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Bio-medical or Computer Science is preferred.

However, we do ask that applicants for our Taxtrainee 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.

At least 2 of these A-levels must either be within or a combination of Sciences or Advanced Mathematics, or Computer Technology.

This excludesGeneral Studies.

We also ask that graduate applicants have either achieved or are working to achieve
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