EY Empower - Tax Industrial Placements 2022

About the Bright Network - EY Empower Programme

EY Empower is a new initiative developed in partnership with Bright Network, specifically designed to support those who come from traditionally under-represented groups in the industry.

If accepted on to the programme, you will be offered in-depth coaching and support throughout the rest of the EY recruitment process, to help you realise your full potential. This will be provided across a variety of formats, including group and 1-2-1 coaching sessions, and sign-posting to relevant upskilling tools and material. 

You will also be able to skip part of the EY online portal stage (learning for a changing world).

EY Empower: Tax Industrial Placements

Using key technologies, help local and international companies manage their tax whilst you get a head start on your graduate career.

At EY, no question is too small, too ambitious or too imaginative. We use our curiosity to ask better questions, that inspire better answers.

Tax is continuously changing and affects every aspect of our lives and laws. As a member of our team, you’ll help local and global organisations, from start-ups to influential multinationals, manage every element of their business’s tax affairs and tax risk policies. You’ll learn the ins and outs of tax regulation and explore how the future of tax makes for an exciting journey. Here, your career is truly yours to build. Experience our world. Your way.

We help local and global entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals and organisations manage every element of their business’s tax. And as a function, Tax has changed more than ever in the past five years. Not only is Tax broader in its operations, but it’s also more digital. From bots that do our number crunching to artificial intelligence that inspires our innovations, Tax is no longer bound to Excel, it’s boundless. Tax is one of our most central business areas and we work across our entire organisation to shape strategies of the future.

Technology in Tax

Innovation is our mindset and technology is our power; enabling us to move business to new uncharted depths and deliver better and faster solutions for clients. You’ll work closely with colleagues across borders, using EY technology and networks to solve complex business and tax problems. By combining the power of EY’s tax experience with innovative technology, you can help us transform the tax function of the future.

What will you be doing?

You’ll build a career that’s yours to own. With infinite opportunities to lead, learn and transform, we’ll empower you to build a world as unique as you. Here, you’ll be:

• Working across various specialist tax teams within UK & Ireland or Financial Services
• Working directly on technical research alongside senior colleagues
• Collaborating with audit teams assisting in the review of tax disclosures and other tax items in the accounts
• Interacting with global EY teams on tax compliance engagements and gaining an overview of tax requirements worldwide
• Building important relationships with clients through meetings and day-to-day work

Are you eligible to apply?

If you meet the EY Empower criteria below, are in your penultimate year at university and your course includes a placement year, this programme is for you.

To be eligible for the EY Empower programme, you must identify within any of the listed groups below:

• A minority ethnic group, including (but not limited to) Black Heritage, Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Heritage and Asian 
• Female
• LGBTQ+
• From a lower socio-economic background
• Identify as having a disability

We operate an open access policy, meaning we don’t screen out applications on your academic performance alone. You will however, need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject - some programmes will require a subject relevant to the business area, and have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.

EY welcome applications from all students, regardless of their background. If the above does not apply to you, please submit your application directly - here

The process

To get started, fill in a short initial application form and answer one motivational question by clicking the apply now button. 

If your initial application is successful, you will then receive details of how to access the relevant coaching and support sessions, along with the instructions of how to complete EY’s application portal as an Empower programme candidate.

Once the EY portal is completed and your application accepted, you will then be able to miss the online portal stage (Learning for a changing world). This will shorten the time it takes to complete the full application process by approximately an hour and a half.  

Note: If you’ve applied for EY in the last 6 months, unfortunately you will be unable to apply for this opportunity.

Learn more

Immerse yourself in our world whilst exploring your options at the forefront of business. Get to know the part you could play in our organisation. And discover what it means to experience EY your way.

Find out more about our opportunities and how to apply.

Our world. Your way.