Tax

In Corporate Tax you’ll help clients - from the largest organisations to budding entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals- manage their tax risk and comply with complex legislation. You’ll  tackle a broad range of work that includes multinational advisory projects, tax compliance and researching business issues that affect clients’ tax affairs - all while keeping pace with regular tax rules.

Wide-ranging, individually tailored and highly consultative sum up the work in this area. The teams include:

• Corporate Tax – which helps organisations meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their businesses
• Private Business and Private Client – which advises growing companies, partnerships and wealthy individuals on their local and overseas tax affairs while acting as a strategic consultant on things like business analysis, managing working capital and profit-sharing for partners.

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As you develop, the challenge and complexity of your tasks will grow. You could get involved in:

• making sure the tax compliance process runs smoothly
• liaising with our overseas offices to co-ordinate projects
• researching business issues that will affect clients’ tax affairs
• providing tailored tax advice to your clients
• researching, planning and tailoring ideas to clients' needs
• managing all aspects of new client engagements.

A position in Corporate Tax provides you with the opportunity to work within a department covering an arena which is growing ever more complex.

• You'll provide tax advice on Mergers and Acquisitions, treasury and finance, international structuring and indirect tax.
• Within your first 2 years you'll complete a 12 week rotation in one of our compliance centres located in various offices across the UK. This will give you first-hand experience of compliance early on in your career to help build your core tax skills and provide you with an understanding of the drivers of a company's tax position.
• Clients include global players, FTSE 100 companies and middle market organisations.
• As part of the graduate programme, you'll undertake a self-directed learning programme involving professional qualifications, gaining knowledge of the industry and market, self development, awareness and leadership skills.

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Our graduate training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You’ll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the firm and throughout your career.

You’ll work towards:

• an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)
• a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) or
• a Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)

Whichever area of tax you join, you can qualify as a chartered accountant at the at the end of year three.

At the same time, you’ll learn from formal training, expert coaching from experienced, talented colleagues and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the firm and throughout your career.

You’ll have the chance to try new things too. You’ll get exposure to different clients, projects or areas of our Tax practice. And as well as a good understanding of different industries, you’ll develop the ability to get under the skin of businesses and analyse how they work. And you’ll become a strong project manager, with a keen eye for a business opportunity.

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Your work will call for everything from meticulous research and intelligent analysis to the ability to juggle priorities and carry out shrewd negotiations. So you must have potential in a whole range of areas. 

You'll need:

• the passion to deliver the best for your clients
• the ability to build strong and last relationships
• outstanding problem-solving ability
• team working skills
• a flair for handling complex numerical data
• an ability to influence and inspire others
• A 2:1 or above in any degree discipline
• A UCAS tariff of at least 300 (or equivalent)

Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.

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You'll be working in an environment that's focused on finding solutions - and not always those that are most obvious. So we’ll welcome your technical aptitude and understanding as well as your flair for lateral thinking. Commitment to excellence in everything we do is pivotal to the Tax practice and the wider firm. So you’ll need to develop a keen instinct for delivering the very best for your clients. So you need to develop great relations with your clients and a keen interest in developing the best for them.

We're also team-orientated. You'll work alongside colleagues who are at the top of their fields and who’ll be happy to share their advice, knowledge and experience.

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In Human Resource Consulting services you’ll help some of the world’s leading employers make the most of their biggest asset – their people. You’ll work on a broad range of projects  helping clients define their HR strategy  and ensure their HR function  is effective, through to helping clients improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their workforce.. This might include anything from  international pensions to communications, employment law and talent management to tax compliance and reward and employee incentives.

Our work includes:

• international pensions
• immigration
• employee share schemes and incentives
• employment law
• communications
• compensation and benefits
• tax and social security.

Another big part of our work is advising clients on the complex tax implications for employees who are sent abroad to work and, in turn, come back to the UK.

The tax experts here work closely with other specialists in our Human Resource Services consulting practice – who cover areas such as communications, international assignments, equity, culture and change, compensation, regulatory, legal and process management. That means loads of variety for you and unrivalled breadth and depth of expertise, both locally and globally, for our clients.

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You'll work on diverse projects across all sectors of the economy, providing vital support to more senior clients. And whatever you work on, you'll learn about employment tax risk, employment cost reduction and employer social responsibility.

You could get involved in:

• helping clients introduce innovative, motivational, tax-efficient ways to reward staff and lower costs
• developing a strategy for managing an internationally mobile workforce
• advising companies on how to prepare for possible compliance reviews
• helping a company deal with the impact of a merger
• looking at the environmental issues around how organisations can measure and reduce their C02 emissions
• researching advice for wealthy individuals on personal tax compliance, estate and capital taxes planning or trusts
• supporting teams that advise executives on how to manage their investments and pensions, or on how working overseas might affect their wealth
• keeping pace with the frequent changes in legislation that affect our clients.

Projects aren’t purely tax-focused either. So you’ll often experience other areas such as HR, communication, negotiation, project management and employment law.

As the work is so varied and fast-paced, you’ll quickly develop a mix of technical and business skills.

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Our graduate training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You’ll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the firm and throughout your career.

You’ll work towards:

• an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)
• a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) or
• a Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)

Whether you join us in Human Resource Services consulting, Corporate Tax or Indirect Tax, you can qualify as a chartered accountant at the at the end of year three.

At the same time, you’ll learn from formal training, expert coaching from experienced, talented colleagues and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the firm and throughout your career.

You’ll have the chance to try new things too. You’ll get exposure to different clients, projects or areas of our Tax practice. And as well as a good understanding of different industries, you’ll develop the ability to get under the skin of businesses and analyse how they work. And you’ll become a strong project manager, with a keen eye for a business opportunity.

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The world of Human Resources is constantly evolving. So you’ll need to be open-minded, flexible and comfortable with change. You must also be able to:

• empathise with clients
• understand the challenges they face
• come up with innovative solutions and explain them with credibility
• build lasting relationships with clients
• thrive in a demanding but supportive team
• A 2:1 or above in any degree discipline
• A UCAS tariff of at least 300 (or equivalent)

Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.

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You’ll enjoy variety, superb client exposure and strong team support, And, as we’re one of the best-connected global HR advisory businesses, you'll also have plenty of opportunity to network.

And, of course, you’ll have our help to develop your career - and your ideas. We listen to everyone and welcome new opinions and fresh thoughts. You’ll be encouraged to have your say from day one.

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In Indirect Tax you’ll advise businesses on VAT and other indirect taxes, including international trade issues linked to Customs and Excise Duties. It’s a highly commercial, ever-changing and extremely wide-ranging field.  You could be involved in purely UK activities or global projects working on more efficient internal processes on a merger or acquisition. We’ll give you early responsibility plus the opportunity to test your strengths and abilities.

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You’ll join a growing network that works with clients across a range of sectors – including financial services, consumer products, technology and energy – each with its own specific indirect tax challenges. As indirect taxes are transactional, to be a good advisor you need to understand the commercial detail of what your clients are selling and to whom in order to give the correct advice on what to do. In many teams you’ll advise international clients so you’ll also have exposure of working with people from different cultures.

Many countries around the globe have VAT rates of around 20% so helping a client to decide whether to charge or reclaim VAT can have a big impact on its profitability and cash flow. Add factors like the growth of e-commerce and governments’ increasing use of indirect taxes to generate income, and this is a particularly fast-changing tax arena to work in. Some businesses manage tens of millions of pounds of VAT each year and even a small percentage error rate can result in big financial liabilities.

You could be:

• helping clients pay the right amount of tax and making sure they don’t overpay
• advising clients on the implications of changes to the indirect tax rules both in the UK and overseas
• collaborating with clients and colleagues across PwC both in the UK and our international member firms
• tackling special projects such as a business restructure or a merger or acquisition
• helping clients respond to HM Revenue & Customs enquiries and disputes
• making sure a client’s indirect tax reporting is accurate by working with them to introduce more efficient internal processes and controls
• working with clients to litigate disputes at the courts.

As an example, our indirect tax team recently advised a household goods manufacturer on the consequences of relocating some of its business to another country. To make sure the business could comply with its indirect tax obligations and prevent unexpected costs we had to liaise with around twenty of our international member firms across the world; work closely with colleagues from other areas of PwC UK; and have lots of discussions with our client’s indirect tax team to advise them on what they needed to do.

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Our graduate training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You’ll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the firm and throughout your career.

We are looking to recruit a mix of individuals working towards one of the following professional qualifications:

• a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA) or
• an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) or a Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI).

The indirect tax world is constantly evolving and PwC is at the forefront of many of these changes. So you’ll need to be open-minded, flexible and agile in dealing with change. You must also have:

• A 2:1 or above in any degree discipline
• A UCAS tariff of at least 300 (or equivalent)

Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.

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