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Early Careers Tax Qualifications Executive - 12 month secondment or FTC
Open to most GTUK locations
Internal Job title: Office Trainee Contact (OTC), Tax
NEW GROUND WON’T BREAK ITSELF.
Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals.
If you enjoy working as part of a focussed team looking to help our graduates and school leavers flourish, you’ll fit right in. We aim to make the professional qualifications and apprenticeships experience the very best it can be.
We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.
A look into the role
As a Professional Qualifications Assistant within the Early Careers team, you will:
1. Deliver an outstanding learning journey to all trainees within your remit. You will be accountable for a range of tasks such as booking trainees onto their professional qualification studies (including exams), their internal technical courses, liaising with relevant people to ensure the timing and utilisation of these courses makes best use of the firm’s investment, and ensuring that these trainees attend all internal courses as required in a timely manner.
2. Make an upfront commitment to ensuring your trainees have the best possible support and service throughout their learning journey at Grant Thornton.
3. Monitor the progression of all trainees within your remit (mock exams, exams, training files etc.)
4. Be a part of a team. This means working and communicating effectively with all other Office Trainee Contacts and Early Careers Advisors to ensure we are delivering a fair and consistent experience to our people. You will be part of a team of 10; reporting into the Head of Early Careers.
5. Communicate with confidence and passion when liaising with your trainees and any stakeholders. We encourage you to collaborate virtually and, where required, in person.
6. Be given regular opportunities to reflect on your development, creating personalised goals and further learning opportunities.
Knowing you’re right for us
Joining us as a Professional Qualifications Assistant, the minimum criteria you’ll need is a good understanding of accountancy and taxation professional qualifications and apprenticeships (level 4 and 7). We will also need you to be confident with trainee-level learning and course scheduling in a professional firm context.
It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you develop along the way.
* Extensive experience using Microsoft packages
* AAT, ACA, CA, CIOT, ACCA qualified (or similar)
Knowing we’re right for you
Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.
Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.
Beyond the job
Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.
The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society. It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind.
We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be.
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