Tax - Specialist Tax School Leaver Apprentice - Employment Tax - 1 September 2025 - Leeds

Service line:
Tax
Business unit:
Specialist Tax
Office:
Leeds

Tax - Specialist Tax School Leaver Apprentice - Employment Tax - 1 September 2025 - Leeds (4149)

Forvis Mazars : who are we?

Forvis Mazars LLP is the UK firm of Forvis Mazars Group. In the UK we have over 3,300 employees across 14 locations, delivering an outstanding client experience. Forvis Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development. You can find out more about our firm here.

Tax at Forvis Mazars

At Forvis Mazars, we're dedicated to helping you build a rewarding career. We value your expertise, experience, and ambition, encouraging you to bring your ideas and creativity to our national tax team.

Experts in the field: You will undertake qualifications to allow you to build the skills and knowledge to expertly navigate the UK tax landscape. Your team will support you in your journey to professional excellence; whether dealing with employment taxes, corporate profits, international transactions, or personal income.

Client-focused solutions: Work with a diverse range of clients, from individuals to large multinationals, providing tailored tax advice. Our team works with other specialists across different service lines within Forvis Mazars too, advising on tax, regulations and accounting and how that impacts the risk and governance of our clients.

Commitment to excellence: Join a team that prioritises quality and trust. Our high standards ensure that every piece of advice we provide supports clients to make the most appropriately informed decisions. We are experts in managing risk and providing the latest advice, keeping on top of regulatory changes and developments in society.

You can find out more about Tax at Forvis Mazars here: Tax - Forvis Mazars - United Kingdom

About the Employment Tax team

The Employment Tax team provides advice and support to our clients in a wide variety of areas, working across Public and Private Sector organisations to help them find solutions to areas including:

How should benefits and expenses like staff parties and company cars be treated for tax purposes?
Can individuals be engaged off payroll and if they are, how can this risk be managed within the current legislative requirements?
How can employee reward and net pay be maximised, whilst remaining compliant with legislation?
How do employers manage National Minimum Wage compliance?
Working remotely – does this create tax issues and how can these be managed?
What happens if we identify an error and need to disclose to HMRC?

These areas are often “front page news” an critical for organisations to get right. We have seen this be the case with employment status enquiries, NMW failures and not treating expense claims accurately. By being there to support organisations, we can help hem mitigate risk, enhance reward strategy and be well placed to recruit, retain key talent to help grow in the future.

By being part of the Employment Tax team you will have the opportunity to learn, shape approach and provide both pragmatic and technical advisory services to a whole range of clients, ranging from family owned businesses to large FTSE 100 international organisations.

Hear from tax trainee, Joe:

The employment tax team at Forvis Mazars gave me the opportunity to learn from a wide range of projects which has helped me to build a strong knowledge base for the future. The variety of tax issues we deal with keeps the job very engaging!

Every story is different at Forvis Mazars. Our people have amazing, personal experiences so the best way to learn about life here is to hear it first hand, click here to hear their stories.

About the role

You will part of a growing, successful team preparing and delivering high-quality services to clients. You will work with a broad range of clients, covering several sectors – including Public and Private Sector organisations. You'll be helping organisations grow, mitigate and manage their risks more effectively, by helping enhance employee reward, reducing employer costs and putting more robust governance controls on key tax and reward risk areas in place.

We operate a hybrid working model, so as a trainee you will split your time between working from home, visiting the office, client sites when required or studying for your professional exams.

During your first three years you will:

Attend client meetings, helping organisations find solutions to complex compliance and reward matters.
Research legislation, case law and be involved in creating new ways to better support organisations
Draft articles for publication on the Forvis Mazars website and other third party sites
work collaboratively with colleagues in other services, offices and countries
Learn how to use the tax software and systems

By the end of your fourth year you will:

Work on a range of different advisory engagements across UK tax covering a range of technical areas
Develop a strong technical knowledge of the UK tax legislation
Coach and lead more junior team members on advisory engagements
Understand the way in which different corporate entities operate across a range of sectors
Work directly with our clients and begin developing relationships with those clients to deliver on repeat engagements
Begin to manage advisory engagements, including planning, budgeting and project managing different service lines
Develop a strong understanding of our control and risk management procedure

You're joining us as a permanent employee, so the three years is only the beginning of your exceptional career journey.

Who we're looking for

On track or have obtained A-Level, BTEC or equivalent qualifications. Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don't always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self – academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed. You can read about our approach to academics in our FAQs.

Deep curiosity to learn new things and is naturally inquisitive;

The ability to think critically solve problems and share knowledge with others;

A commitment to self-development and learning;

Strong sense of ownership of duties and high levels of responsibility to deliver on promises;

Try their best in all they do and always looking for ways to improve;

Enjoys meeting and engaging with new people with an underlying respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity;

Works well under pressure and have a positive ‘can-do' attitude if faced with challenging situations;

Excellent time management skills;

A willingness to travel and adhere to our flexible working environment.

Learning and development

Fully funded professional qualification for this role: Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) / Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA)

Additional qualification(s): Level 7

Our supportive culture includes coaching, mentorship, and one-on-one guidance. In addition to funding qualifications, we provide time off to study, and a blended training approach including in person and virtual learning. You will be allocated a buddy before joining who will support you to settle into the team and navigate your first year at Forvis Mazars.

You will also receive comprehensive quality training and development to excel in your professional career; this includes development in professional excellence, client excellence, digital excellence, and technical excellence. Our goal is to support you in reaching your full potential and become a standout talent. To understand more read our FAQs.

Inclusion and diversity

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond, is fully supported to be their unique self and provided with a level playing field. To read more about our approach click here.

Next steps

Roles will be closed as soon as we find the right people, so to avoid disappointment we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. If you are an international applicant and/or require a visa please view our FAQs before applying to be aware of deadlines and important information you need to know before applying