Tax - Corporate Tax Compliance School Leaver Apprentice - September 2025
Forvis Mazars
Manchester, GB
The role of a Tax School Leaver Apprentice is to assist in the provision of corporate tax compliance and advisory services as part of a specialist team to a portfolio of clients. They are to assist in the preparation of company's corporation tax computations and returns and to ensure that they show a true representation of the company's tax position and provide bespoke advice to clients on their tax affairs. You will be provided an opportunity to work with colleagues in different tax disciplines during your time on our graduate programme, resulting in a broad understanding of the services we can offer our clients.\nDuring your first three years you will:\n - Learn how to use Alphatax (the tax software) and processes in order to prepare a corporation tax computation and return and learn how to prepare tax numbers for financial statements.\n - Develop a thorough understanding of financial statements and the nature of the clients' business to complete corporation tax computation.\n - Be able to obtain relevant information from other departments and clients whilst building good communication with both.\n - Help write reports and produce other client deliverables to assist the client in explaining issues, risks and solutions in easily understandable language that they can act on.\n - Support the team with client relationships and requests.\nBy the end of your fourth year you will:\n - Have a structured client portfolio focusing on tax reporting to manage.\n - Work on a range of different tax reporting and advisory engagements across UK tax covering a range of technical areas\n - Develop a strong technical knowledge of the UK tax legislation.\n - Coach and lead more junior team members on advisory engagements.\n - Understand the way in which different corporate entities operate across a range of sectors.\n - Work directly with our clients and begin developing relationships with those clients to deliver on repeat engagements.\n - Begin to manage tax reporting engagements, including planning, budgeting and project managing different service lines.\n - Develop a strong understanding of our control and risk management procedures.\n - Have experience in supporting business development to bring new client wins to the team and to your portfolio.\nYou're joining us as a permanent employee, so the four years is only the beginning of your exceptional career journey.\nWho we're looking for \n\n - On track or have obtained A Level, BTEC or equivalent qualifications. Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don't always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed. You can read about our approach to academics in our FAQs.\n - Deep curiosity to learn new things and is naturally inquisitive;\n - The ability to think critically solve problems and share knowledge with others;\n - A commitment to self-development and learning;\n - Strong sense of ownership of duties and high levels of responsibility to deliver on promises;\n - Try their best in all they do and always looking for ways to improve;\n - Enjoys meeting and engaging with new people with an underlying respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity;\n - Works well under pressure and have a positive can-do' attitude if faced with challenging situations;\n - Excellent time management skills;\n - A willingness to travel and adhere to our flexible working environment.