Tax Industrial Placement - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Mazars

Mazars

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

At Mazars we have a wide range of opportunities for you to gain experience in a firm that truly cares about your aspirations. Our business is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, and we are known for giving ambitious people early responsibility and exposure.

Are you an undergraduate with strong analytical skills with a keen attention to detail? Are you a credible and effective communicator who has a commitment to learning? This is a great opportunity to join a team that specialises in providing expert tax advice to clients within a wide range of industries_.

About the role

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.

We are now operating a hybrid working model, so as a trainee you will split your time between working from home, visiting the office, client sites when required or studying for your professional exams.

If you are offered a permanent role to return at the end of your one year placement, you will re-join as a second year after completing your degree.

The full outline of tasks is below:

During your industrial placement and as a returning second year you will:

Learn how to use tax software and systems in order to prepare a corporation tax computation and return.
Develop a thorough understanding of financial statements and the nature of the clients' business in order to complete the corporation tax computation to the best of your ability.
Be able to obtain relevant information from other departments and clients whilst building good communication with both.
Be able to 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.

By the end of your third year you will:

Work on a range of different compliance and advisory engagements across UK tax covering a range of technical areas
Develop a strong 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 advisory engagements, including planning, budgeting and project managing different service lines
Develop a strong understanding of our control and risk management procedures

About the team

Overview of the Tax service line
At Mazars we'll help you build on your expertise, experience and ambition to develop a rewarding and successful career.

We want you to be yourself, to bring your ideas and creativity and to feel inspired as part of our national tax team.

We provide bespoke advice in all areas of taxation, helping our clients to navigate the complexities of tax codes, often in multiple jurisdictions, and to help them ensure they are fulfilling all their obligations and paying the correct amount of tax.

In this way we help them to manage an area of significant financial and reputational risk and to make properly informed decisions about their tax position whether they are an individual, a business owner or a corporate organisation.

We also help clients resolve any disputes they have with the tax authorities as swiftly as possible.

We cover every aspect of taxation for clients, whether on employment, corporate profits or gains, movements of individuals or businesses from one country to another, international transactions or on personal income, gains or wealth.

An introduction to the Corporate Tax Compliance team

The Corporate Tax Compliance 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, domestic owner managed businesses and clients in the financial services sector.

About you

You must be in the penultimate year of your undergraduate university course (the placement must take place either in your 2nd year of a 3 year course or 3rd year of a 4 year course)
Interpersonal skills; the ability to build client relationships with a foundation of trust and responsibility.
Analytical skills; the ability to think critically, research and solve problems.
Attention to d