Indirect Tax student opportunities

In our Indirect Tax team, you’ll advise how indirect taxes impact clients' operations, their supply chain and are managed within clients financial and accounting systems while you build your career.

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What is Indirect Tax?

Indirect Tax teams work with clients that trade goods or services nationally and internationally. You'll advise on how indirect taxes such as goods & services tax (GST) impact your clients' operations, their supply chain (global trade/customs duties), and how complex indirect taxes are managed within clients financial and accounting systems.

As a part of the team, you'll help identify and address areas of risk, develop solutions including technology to enhance client’s visibility over their operations and data including how these solutions can improve your clients’ processes and financial outcomes. Working in Indirect Tax, you'll gain wide-ranging experience across different industries, have opportunities to work internationally and receive the support you need to become an effective tax professional.

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What could you be doing?

  • Work on a variety of EY clients from small businesses to multinational corporations
  • Learn how technology is assisting clients transform their business
  • Help identify risk areas and sustainable planning opportunities throughout the indirect tax life cycle
  • Help organisations meet their compliance obligations and business goals around the world
  • Review a client's accounting system to ensure that the indirect taxes are handled correctly
  • Work with a multidisciplinary team to map the flow of goods and services in a client's supply chain
  • Map the processes and controls that a client uses to manage their indirect tax risks
  • Work with colleagues from other parts of Tax to support your client in selling or purchasing another business
  • Use your research to prepare the structure of an argument that will defend a client's indirect tax position with the tax authorities and courts

What will you bring to the team?

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to change language to suit client audience and needs:

  • Resilience

  • Deep curiosity to learn in an ever-changing business world

  • The ability to learn and apply new information quickly

  • Strong business process, numerical and analytical skills

  • Dedication to collaboration, teamwork, and inclusive leadership

  • The ability to solve complex problems and adapt to challenging situations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your career journey in Indirect Tax

As a graduate, you’ll be part of our 12-month graduate development program that has been developed for graduates in all service lines, and is focused on connection, learning and celebration.

The program will provide you with the opportunity to network with your peers from other service lines and geographies. Running in parallel to your technical learning, you will develop leadership skills to become a successful graduate, and as you grow as a transformative leader.

As an Indirect Tax graduate, you’ll take part in:-

  • Dedicated tax technology training sessions, including hands on experience
  • Regular tax technical training including various lunch and learn programs
  • Immerse yourself in client conversations and be curious as to the “why”
  • Client projects using the skills developed – including international and national clients

As a vacationer, after our company induction, you’ll start developing an understanding of how our Indirect Tax teams work and will be ready to work alongside teams on real client projects. You’ll meet other new vacationers from your office.

Your buddy and your counsellor will help you learn your way around the organisation, set your goals and plan your development while you’re here. You'll be well looked after with ongoing learning throughout the Vacationer Program with sessions facilitated by our Learning and Development team, Campus Recruitment team and service line specific training. The Vacationer Program is a great way to gain valuable audit experience, skills and networks to start building your career.

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