If you are considering a career in corporate tax after you graduate, a placement year at Moore Kingston Smith is a great way to get started. You’ll be developing professional skills, technical knowledge and valuable experience. We are an accredited training firm, committed to giving everyone who joins us first class training in a personal and friendly working environment.
Promising challenging, interesting and varied experience, you’ll work with a mix of businesses across multiple sectors, as part of our Corporate and Business Tax team. We’re all about working together to realise ambitions. Our Corporate and Business Tax Advisers provide their clients with practical, commercially driven, risk-assessed advice. They’ve been helping businesses with every aspect of their taxes for over 80 years, from managing risk, to employment tax, to navigating partnerships and LLPS and beyond.
You’ll work with all kinds of clients, from large corporate groups to single entities. Our clients choose us because we understand them so well, so you’ll get to know our corporate clients and their owners, uncovering the obstacles they face, their preferences and the ways their industries work. The experience is varied. Some projects last a few days, others a few weeks. We encourage you to take responsibility early on, and you’ll get to grips with all aspects of the role. You’ll predominantly work with our Corporate and Business Tax team which provides a range of services to clients of the wider firm and tax only clients.
Along with the support of your team and the training you’ll receive, you’ll be
- Managing your time and communicating effectively with those you work as you typically working on around three projects a week, picking up ad-hoc tasks along the way
- Making a direct impact on your clients’ business with tasks ranging from the annual tax compliance cycle (including a growing portfolio of large, complex international clients), tax audit, and working on bespoke tax advisory projects
- Understanding a company’s financial statements and information, inputting relevant data into Alphatax, the software used for the preparation of corporation tax returns
- Developing knowledge and understanding of tax legislation and adjustments required in a tax computation in order to calculate a company’s liability to tax
- Receiving training across corporate tax such as transfer pricing, R&D and creative tax
You’ll receive support and guidance in all your tasks, as you gain exposure across the wider business and learn the different ways we support and engage with our clients.
Who are we looking for?
If you are a current university student, looking to complete a placement year as part of your undergraduate degree, and interested in pursuing a career in corporate tax after graduation, this could be the opportunity for you!
Skills this role requires
- Enthusiasm for building strong relationships and collaborating with clients and colleagues, with close support from your manager
- A proactive, results-driven attitude that ensures excellent client service
- Strong commitment and reliability, enabling you to balance your studies and exams (with paid study leave) alongside your full-time role and responsibilities
- A growth mindset and adaptable approach, with a willingness to continuously acquire new skills and knowledge, supported by your manager, apprenticeship coach and dedicated early talent team
In order to be eligible for the programme, you will also need
- Have obtained at least 112 UCAS points from three A-Levels, or equivalent qualifications
- Be on track to achieve a 2:2 or above, from a degree in any discipline
- Be available and permitted to work in the UK, from the start date of the programme