Assistant Tax Advisor Review

Assistant tax advisor - helping the team with client deliverables and meetings. Drafting invoices, emails, etc., completing onboarding process for clients, attending meetings, working on a range of projects including withholding tax, reporting regimes such as DAC7 and CESOP, etc. Day-to-day also involves a lot of training (both internal and external) and learning about tax.

I have learned and developed soft skills such as networking, interaction with clients, communication and leadership. I have also developed my technical skills regarding tax. In particular, my knowledge has improved regarding taxes like withholding tax and reporting regimes such as CESOP, DAC7, DAC6, FATCA and CRS. Also have improved technological skills.

I enjoy my programme to a large extent. I feel that I am being given enough responsibility in client projects and my team greatly involves me in several different engagements. I am given the opportunity to attend client meetings and to work on client deliverables. I am also given a lot of training to develop my skills.

The programme is well structured. We are given study leave in order to complete our professional qualification and my team is respectful of my time when I have to study and work at the same time. We know in advance when we will be in office and when we will be in college which is very helpful. However, it would be useful if we could also have some internal training regarding our specific subservice line before we start in the office.

I receive a lot of support from my employer when needed. We are given study leave for our exams and my colleagues are very respectful of the fact that we have exams and college, i.e. it is expected that during this time we will be focused on exams and not client work. There are a lot of resources available if you need support and these are regularly highlighted.

Lots of support given by employer when working towards qualifications such as study leave for college and exams. We are encouraged to focus on our professional qualification above all and this is encouraged by all including our team. There are lots of resources to help us and contacts when we need them.

I feel that my qualification helps me to perform better in my role as it teaches technical knowledge and skills needed for my role, in particular tax. In addition to this, it also has developed other skills needed for the role such as work ethic, organisation, time management and resilience.

There are extra curricular activities at work such as work socials with my team, there are various different sports clubs and teams and other cultural and religious networks. There are also other affinity networks such as the womens network. There are also some networking events, particularly within these different networks.

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I believe EY is a great place to start your career and to complete your professional qualification because we are given lots of support. It is a good place to develop your career and skills because from day one you are involved in various different client engagements and are given a good level of responsibility.

Practice different skills such as maths, case study skills and reasoning skills as these will be useful for the online assessments when applying. Make sure to research the firm and the service line and find out about what sort of work you will be getting involved with. Practice your communication skills for the interviews and assessment centres.