Tax Placement: Real Client Experience & Growth

BDO UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health and wellbeing support

Employee discounts

Gym membership

Additional leave

Protection benefits

Job summary

BDO UK is offering a Tax Industrial Placement designed to give a year of hands-on experience in tax, client work and professional development. You’ll build technical and commercial skills, work with colleagues and have opportunities to return on the Graduate Programme.

You’ll sit three professional exams and gain six months of practical work experience with the relevant Professional Body, with potential to qualify sooner thanks to placement.

Qualifications

• Be a second-year student on a four-year undergraduate degree, seeking a third-year work placement.
• On track for a minimum 2:2 degree in any discipline (predicted).
• Three A-levels or equivalent at grades A*-C (excluding General Studies and Extended Projects) or four Scottish Highers at grade A-B.
• GCSEs at grade 4 and above in Maths and English, or Scottish National 5 grade A-C.
• The right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Sit three professional exams.
• Log six months of practical work experience with the relevant Professional Body.
• Return to BDO on the Graduate programme and complete your remaining exams and training in 2.5 years, qualifying around six months sooner because of your placement experience.

Education

Second-year undergraduate student

Minimum 2:2 degree (predicted)

Three A-levels or four Scottish Highers

GCSEs Maths and English (4/C or higher)

Right to work in the UK

Job description

BDO UK is offering a Tax Industrial Placement designed to give a year of hands-on experience in tax, client work and professional development. You’ll build technical and commercial skills, work with colleagues and have opportunities to return on the Graduate Programme.

You’ll sit three professional exams and gain six months of practical work experience with the relevant Professional Body, with potential to qualify sooner thanks to placement.