Senior Tax Assistant Review

My day to day role includes a lot of different areas of tax. My daily work involves liaising with clients regarding any personal, corporate or partnership tax questions they may have. Also, I have monthly deadlines for non-UK tax aspects which must be dealt with urgently I therefore spend magnitudes of times time preparing information ready for all my deadlines.

During my time, I have developed a wide range of skills, specifically my excel skills. My role has expanded to include various excel spreadsheet tasks and the development of my excel macro vba knowledge too. This expansive vba knowledge has led to me streamlining our data. This was a self taught skill which has slowly become a speciality.

The programme has allowed me the chance to develop my technical skills alongside my work, specifically within personal tax seeing as this is the majority of my role - especially in January. My studies have improved my client service as I am able to take calls and provide answers to clients without the need to push back due to areas of unknown knowledge.

The programme that I have been enrolled on has been very well organised. Due to us having representatives within my team who deal with our training provider it has been a faultless programme and I have always been in the loop for what exams or courses I have coming up.

As mentioned on the previous question. We have an internal team representative who deals with our training provider on our behalf. I can therefore confirm that the support I have from my team and specifically this representative has been fantastic. As the majority of my team have taken the same course, they are totally understanding of study commitments.

There has been significant amounts of support provided from my training provider, Tolleys. They provide us with various course dates, be it in London, Reading or Birmingham depending on which dates or location suits us best. They also provide copious amounts of practice exams and past questions in order for us to practice away from the classroom.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the Tolleys programme that I have been enrolled in as this has helped me develop technical skills that are absolutely vital to my day to day job, especially in personal tax. The knowledge provider has been invaluable and I can see the benefits from this knowledge as my client service continually improves.

There are numerous activities provided by my firm in which we can attend inside and outside of working hours. We currently have football and netball teams who have both been rather successful. My team in particular have recently set up a golf society. Lastly our firm enter the annual dragon boat race held in Milton Keynes.

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Deloitte are very well known for being one of the top companies for their employees to work for. We have an agile working scheme which is perfect for working families to spend time with their children as well as working from home to allow them to be away from the office when need be. This, accompanied with the activities previously mentioned, mean so much for people and their wellbeing.

If you were to apply to work at Deloitte, you should be prepared to work hard and be pushed hard in order for you to reach your full potential. You should be open minded once joining the firm as there are worldwide opportunities for all employees to achieve not just in one specific area or one specific country.