Tax

Qualifications offered: ACA/CTA/ATT

Our tax teams analyse both businesses and personal financial arrangements to deliver optimum and sustainable tax efficiencies for their clients. They closely monitor developments in UK and tax regulation to deliver forward-thinking, far-sighted solutions.

As first-year trainee, you will be:

• producing tax computations
• carrying out technical research on complex issues
• advising clients on their tax requirements
• working closely with HM Revenue & Customs
• building long-term relationships with our clients
• completing tax returns

You’ll gain exposure to a wide range of clients, too. Our portfolio encompasses media and entertainment, finance and professional services, retail, technology, agriculture, hospitality, property and construction, as well as healthcare and pharmaceuticals. As well as our corporate clients, we also have a large proportion who are entrepreneurial, high net worth individuals including footballers, famous actors.

Corporate Tax

Qualifications offered: ACA/CTA

Our Corporate Tax team help businesses to optimise their tax position, manage their tax risks and meet their compliance obligations in this area – from UK and international tax structuring considerations to operational tax issues. Trainees here gain exposure to both multinational global companies and private limited companies. During your first year, you will:

• assist audit colleagues with the tax dimension of their accounts
• support our senior-level advisers with technical research
• prepare tax computations for companies

Corporate Advisory Services

Qualifications offered: ACA/CTA

We provide specialist advice in international corporate tax, transfer pricing, global tax compliance, financial services tax, and property and construction tax amongst others. Clients are typically multinational businesses with operations around the world and therefore operate on different time zones, which may mean you'll need to be flexible with your working hours. In this group, trainees can expect to carry out the following activities:

• assist audit colleagues with the tax dimension of their accounts
• support our senior-level advisers with technical research
• prepare tax computations for companies

VAT

Qualification offered: CTA

Whether they’re planning an acquisition, launching a new business line, or expanding internationally, VAT issues play an important role in our clients’ decision-making. It’s our mission to provide them with expert advice in this area. We also help internal stakeholders within the business with the VAT dimension of large deals. As a trainee here, you will:

• assist in the planning and execution of VAT consultancy assignments
• carry out technical research on VAT legislation, customs guidance and case law
• support our audit department on VAT issues
• assist our clients with applications for VAT registrations and returns

Tax Investigations

Qualification offered: CTA

This team represents taxpayers who are the subject of HM Revenue & Customs enquiries. We deal with prosecutions, suspected serious fraud, technical avoidance cases, large corporate risk assessment, detailed international tax enquiry cases, as well as complex personal tax enquiries. We represent both personal and corporate clients. As a trainee here, you will:

• carry out forensic analysis on complex tax enquiries
• negotiate settlements on tax, interest and penalties with HM Revenue & Customs
• develop your understanding of contemporary technical issues in this area

Entrepreneurial and Private Client

Qualification offered: CTA

We provide expert advice to high net worth individuals on how they can reduce their personal tax burden. We also give recommendations to entrepreneurs on how they can save tax at all stages of their business lifecycle. Our expertise covers not only tax planning, but also the tax dimension of remuneration, acquisitions and disposals. As a trainee here, you will:

• provide personal taxation advice
• carry out compliance and estate planning
• support the reduction of potential inheritance tax liabilities for our clients
• help entrepreneurs manage their complex tax affairs

Tax and Financial Planning dual programme

Qualifications offered: CII and ATT going to CTA

The dual programme will see you being trained in both personal tax and financial planning for the first two years. After this, you’ll then choose whether to specialise in tax planning or financial planning.

In the first two years, you’ll sit exams to acquire the following qualifications: the Chartered Insurance Institute certificate (CII) and the Diploma in Financial Planning and the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT). From the third year on, you’ll then specialise. You’ll either acquire the Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) qualification - or the Chartered Financial Planner qualification.

Whichever route you choose, you’ll have gained a detailed knowledge of both professions – putting you among the premier private client advisers in the business.

As a trainee here, you will:

• advise entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals
• advise major professional partnerships and offshore trusts
• assist in the provision of complex financial planning reports
• review our clients' business structures and personal financial arrangements and deliver intelligent solutions

Employer Solutions

Qualification offered: CTA

We work with large employers to develop leading-edge reward structures for their employees across both the domestic and international arenas. Our expertise covers the whole area of employee rewards –and we are renowned for designing reward schemes that are motivational, cost-effective and business appropriate. We also advise employers on the tax implications of having a cross-border workforce.

First year trainees:

• assist in the provision of our consultancy services
• develop tax efficient global remuneration strategies and share schemes
• assist our clients with their international employee tax compliance obligations and processes.