Assistant tax advisory Review

I am an assistant tax advisor in my 2nd year. I have admin tasks such as keeping on top of files, ensuring all billing is in line and speak to clients to ensure they are happy. I participate in tax audits where I have increased responsibility, such as tying numbers in to backing documents, discussing with clients and checking any changes. I have been allowed to have a head start on advisory projects, looking at legislation for relevant rules, and help speak to client in terms of compliance, and checking tax computations to accounts.

I have learnt a lot of new skills, ranging from simple tasks such as writing emails professionally, tax technical knowledge at tax training courses across the years, and general skills required for my job from my first year of exams where I have earned the CFAB qualification.

I enjoy my programme a lot, I am lucky in that I get a broad depth of experience across the different parts of my job, tax audit, advisory and compliance. I enjoy the people I work with, both different managers and the staff in my office, all of which have supported me at difficult times and encourage me to excel.

I feel very valued by EY, I have had good feedback, allowing me to develop and the feedback cycles we have inplace ensure you get timely feedback for the projects you have been doing at that point in time. I am very busy in work hitting my chargeable hours target through people allowing me to take part in a large variety of projects. I have had appreciation from all levels of seniority, such as EDs, Manager and Senior Manager level.

My programme is structured in the sense that my work is valued, I have strong support within my team, ensuring if I am too busy I can delegate smaller tasks to more junior people and they understand when I have exams that I don't always want to work overtime to ensure I can do my college work. I have had bad experiences with the booking team, and my service provider, where I have been booked onto wrong exams, Not booked onto exams when I'm told I am, the syllabus has changed without being told.

I would like to receive more support from my training provider. The guidance and attitude from tutors varies entirely on the person where I have had fabulous tutors emailing me checking and allowing me to email them question. However, others have not taught well, not allowed questions in class as they weren't deemed 'the correct question'. I do not trust that my exams have been booked by their team, so I always have to ring up to check.

My team are massively supportive, ensuring I have a counsellor to discuss things with formally, but also in terms of exams they fully support my choice with what I do with my time for exams and when I have struggled or had troubles they are always there to help with both technical knowledge and just general support.

I have an expensive hobby, meaning my costs are considerably higher than the average person. However, Birmingham have a higher salary which I do not feel is fair in comparison to Manchester. I also do exactly the same work as the graduates in my year, yet they earn almost £10k more than me which I do not consider to be fair however they have got greater experience from university.

THe social scene with work is good, meaning we have monthly socials with the team, we have away days 1/2 times a year where we use budgets from the teams contribute to do team building exercises and enjoy a day out with our team. We also have CSR days, where we have planned a day to Manchester Dogs Home, so I feel the opportunities outside of work are good.

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I feel it is a good place to work where I can speak out about wanting to make changes in my work, working on different projects to expand my learning. It is an inclusive place to work, where I feel confident to speak out and have the opportunity to work with different types of people. It is a great place to start my career and would definitely recommend it.

I would always say that being yourself in the application is key. In the assessment day, I would advise being professional and to listen more than most, as its always important to listen to your team members to maximise the team effort.