Tax advisor Review

As a tax advisor, we are often providing deliverables to clients (whether individuals or corporate entities) RE their tax affairs. This can vary from compliance to advisory pieces depending on the nature of the query from the client.

I have learnt a lot of new skills - particularly technical skills

I wouldn't say that I enjoy the programme I'm on. I can see the developmental potential for my career but its not something that I enjoy.

In my opinion, I think that the programme could benefit from a rotationary element being included. It can get very boring at times, particularly as many of us end up doing work we cannot be familiar with prior to joining. I think having that optionality to try different sub service lines will benefit apprentices, particularly from a place of understanding the relevance of work other teams do and to understand better where your skills and interests lie.

There are many figureheads of support (counsellors etc) but my experience has been that there is not actually a whole lot of support that comes from this. There is a lot of work that these "supporters" do but I'm not sure how supportive it actually is to the apprentice.

There is a lot of support surrounding the qualifications. The fact that we are allowed to step away from all client work during college periods is very much needed and also very much appreciated.

There are elements of thigns that we learn on the qualification that we can put into practice in the role. With accounting qualifications - the content of the knowledge is so vast (spanning finance, tax, ethics, modelling etc) that I'm sure most people working in tax, audit, consulting or whatever it may be, will inevitably learn many things that have very little bearing on the day job. In my role as a private tax advisor, not even all of the content in the tax paper is relevant to my role - much less so the other modules. That being said, there are elements of concepts and knowledge which are definitely useful in terms of understanding the broader landscape of certain situations.

Yes, there are ample activities to get invovled in if one is so inclined. I'm involved in a lot of student recruitment work because its something I'm passionate about and there is always something to get involved with here.

Yes

The referal bonus scheme is quite lucrative

EY is a good place to work - I would suggest making sure you are as well versed in the type of work that the specific sub-service line you are applying to does, so that you're satisfied with the work you're doing