About the company:

Saffery Champness is one of the UK’s top 20 accountancy practices with a network of nine offices in the UK plus offices in Guernsey, Geneva and Zurich. The firm is independent, but maintains a network of affiliate firms in over 100 countries across the globe via membership of Nexia International. With 64 UK partners and over 400 employees, we are recognised as one of the UK’s leading firms of private client advisers, specialising in providing advice to a broad range of individuals, their families, their businesses and their wider interests.

The sectors in which we operate include: private wealth; owner-managed businesses; landed estates and rural businesses; sports and entertainment; not-for-profit organisations; corporate finance; and professional firms and consulting businesses. Our style is personal and we value our strong client relationships and genuinely partner-led service. Providing excellent training and development opportunities for staff is an important part of what we do, as our long-standing Investors in People accreditation demonstrates.

We are also very proud to have been named as one of ‘Britain’s Top Employers’ for the fourteenth consecutive year.

About the role:

Tax graduates will have the opportunity to study towards the ATT/CTA qualification or alternatively the ACA/CTA combined route.

You will have exciting development opportunities available where you can build your knowledge in many of the sectors in which we operate. You will work in a friendly and progressive environment, within teams of varying sizes. From early on you will be given responsibility, dealing with range of clients including private clients, individuals from the entertainment world, family estates or charities.

We use first-class tuition centres alongside our own internally developed technical training programmes to help you prepare for your examinations. This is supported by our dedicated training team who will monitor your progress throughout your studies. We expect our prospective trainees to have gained a thorough understanding of what the exams will involve, so please ensure that you have researched the professional qualification you are interested in pursuing thoroughly in order to convince us that you know what you’re letting yourself in for!

We recruit approximately 10 tax trainees each year across our office network.

Requirements:

We seek people with initiative; people who are collaborative teamworkers, natural communicators and able problem-solvers. Above all, we seek people who are motivated by providing the highest level of client service.

Applicants must have a 2:1 degree (expected or obtained) in any discipline and at least 300 UCAS points (120 UCAS points with the new points system), or equivalent, gained at one sitting. Plus excellent GSCE results with a minimum grade B (grade 6 with new points system) in English and Maths.

How to apply:

Click here to apply for this role. (Reference ID: YK63X).