Tax Graduate Programmes
By combining the power of EY’s tax experience with innovative technology, you can help us transform our clients' tax for the future.
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Why Tax at EY?
Underpinning essential infrastructure
Support millions of lives, the communities around you, and our entire society by joining us in Tax. You’ll build a career fit for the future, leveraging your own ambition and collaborating with colleagues both in the UK and around the world.
A career with real impact
Taxes collected by governments are used for essential societal investments. Like welfare and social services, schools and universities, transport systems, and initiatives to create a cleaner, greener planet. That means your role with us will be hugely impactful.
Be at the forefront of change
We'll give you the tools and expertise to guide organisations and individuals through the complex world of tax. It’s an exciting and rewarding area to be a part of. And we’re looking for bright minds like you who can reimagine Tax for the future.
What could you do in Tax?
Our clients and people are at the heart of our business. Technology is a big part of our tax environment too. Our innovative and supportive tax technology will help you guide clients in the right direction – while you get to grips with how the digital landscape impacts us.
With our organisation at the forefront of change and constantly looking to the future, we also place a key focus on sustainability within our Tax offering. The Tax function has never had a more critical role in accelerating our client’s sustainability strategy and building long-term value. We can help turn ambitions into action, through a holistic view of their global tax strategy.
Kick-start your professional career in a place driven by opportunities to learn and grow in a dynamic and exciting workplace.
Explore our programmes below.
Tax
Our professionals provide tax consultancy services for many of the world’s largest multinational companies. We help local and global organisations, from start-ups to influential multinationals, manage their business’s tax affairs and tax risk policies.
US/UK Cross Border Tax Services
US/UK Cross Border Tax Services brings together the best of two tax services businesses to create a combined and enhanced US and UK tax and compliance practice, with leading client services and a local and global reach.
Law
We deliver complete business solutions to clients, helping build trust and confidence in worldwide economies and industries. You'll enjoy the opportunity to work with leading professionals, enabling change and helping to shape our legal business.
People Advisory Services - Mobility and Reward
Our team is legislative focused. In our changing labour market, the future of work can be difficult to predict. We look at how businesses reward and relocate employees around the world – and how it affects their tax.
Tax Technology and Transformation (TTT)
Our teams create advanced technology solutions to help businesses increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their tax and finance functions, through the use of AI and automation capabilities.
Why launch your career in Tax?
Tax at EY is an exciting and ever-changing profession. We serve some of the largest, most established global organisations in the world – as well as small, locally run businesses. It’s this variety of clients and projects that makes Tax far from boring. Whether you’re keen to help start-ups make their mark or high-net worth entrepreneurs take business to the next level, you’ll gain exposure to the industry through hands-on future-focused work.
It's not just our range of clients that spur us on. It’s the diversity of people we work with too. We have an extremely diverse workforce. We have deep Tax technicians, but we also have technologists, lawyers, engineers and even vets. You could be working with EY people from around the world too.
Work hard and your potential is unlimited. To get you ready for tomorrow’s ever-changing landscape, our programmes will equip you with a range of skills.
Find out more below about the skills you'll build.
Joining as a graduate
Our dynamic Tax Programmes will provide you with opportunities and experiences to build a career that’s truly yours to own.
As you progress with us, you’ll cultivate skills and behaviours that will see you leading the way for the future and collaborating with a cohort of peers and professionals. All while you gain the technical know-how needed to thrive in our tax environment.
Learn from the very best and harness the core knowledge and skills needed to help your teams provide commercial and tax advice. Build borderless relationships that span entire industries.
Enjoy opportunities to reflect and refocus within Tax. And build a better working world – whilst defining your own adventure.
A training path to support you
We support businesses specialising in renewables, emerging tech, hospitality and beyond - even charities through pro-bono work. Globalisation, digitisation, and the demand for increased transparency means our work is always evolving.
You'll work towards the Chartered Accountancy qualification with ICAEW or ICAS, with an option to pursue a Chartered Tax Advisers (CTA) qualification.
We’ve developed an accessible blended approach of work and study that includes classroom lessons, online learning, and structured self-study. Studying and exams can be hard to balance alongside client commitments and social activities outside of work. But you’ll never be on your own. You’ll study with the rest of your cohort, building friendships that will last a lifetime. Plus, we’re here to support you at every step.
Year one
Begin your technical learning through an external professional body or bespoke EY training. Learn how we deliver to clients by supporting the team on exciting projects.
Year two
Continue your technical learning, whilst developing transferrable skills and behaviours such as, communication and team working, through client and internal projects.
Year three
Continue building technical and professional skills, applying them as you take further ownership for discrete client outputs and interactions.
After you have completed the graduate programme, you will be on track to become a Senior Consultant, where you will continue to grow
your client and people leadership skills as you deliver on your own work and help to train and supervise others. Continue to do a great job and you'll develop further technical, professional and leadership skills which could put you on the path to a manager position.
Meet our people
Rebekah shares more on what it's like to work at EY in Tax.
Rewards and benefits
You want a career that counts. An experience that challenges you. That rewards performance and ultimately defines your future. That's what's on offer at EY. After all, our success is founded on yours.
Removing barriers
We’re proud of our heritage on driving diversity and social mobility across the professional services industry, and in 2016, we removed the requirement to have minimum UCAS points or a degree classification to make an application to EY. We are passionate about giving candidates a fair and consistent recruitment process and are proud of our long-standing partnership with RARE who help us assess applications using contextual recruitment. And, whilst some academic qualifications will still be considered (check programme pages for more information), it’s no longer a barrier. We also firmly believe that every candidate should have the opportunity to demonstrate their potential in our selection process which is why we use our leading EY Strengths Framework that focuses on your individual strengths.
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