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2027 Tax Graduate Programme - Belfast
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Graduate Programme 2027 – Tax
Real Opportunities with Grant Thornton's Graduate Programme.
About Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton is one of Ireland's leading professional services firms, with nearly 3,000 people and a global network spanning more than 145 countries. We combine local expertise with international insight to help clients solve complex challenges and achieve sustainable growth.
About the Team
Grant Thornton's Tax team works across the entire spectrum of tax services, providing innovative and practical solutions to clients operating locally and globally. Our professionals combine technical expertise with commercial insight to help clients manage tax risk, remain compliant and achieve their strategic objectives.
Our Tax team supports organisations of all sizes across a wide range of industries including technology, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, aviation, real estate and the public sector.
Our team advises clients across several specialist areas, including:
- Corporate Tax
- Financial Services
- International Tax
- VAT & Indirect Tax
- Private Client & Wealth Management
- Employer Solutions and Payroll
This breadth of expertise provides graduates with exposure to a diverse range of tax matters, industries and client challenges.
As a Tax Graduate, you'll gain hands-on experience from day one, working with a diverse portfolio of clients and developing solutions to complex tax challenges. You'll have the opportunity to build strong technical knowledge while understanding the wider business and commercial considerations that influence client decision-making.
Whether advising on corporate tax matters, supporting international businesses or helping individuals plan for the future, you'll contribute to projects that have a real impact on our clients.
What You Will Do
As a Graduate Trainee within Tax, you'll work closely with experienced professionals on a variety of client engagements.
You may have the opportunity to:
- Support clients with tax compliance and reporting obligations.
- Assist in the preparation of tax returns and related filings.
- Research tax legislation and analyse technical tax matters.
- Support advisory projects across a range of tax disciplines.
- Work with multinational organisations on international tax matters.
- Assist with transaction and restructuring-related tax projects.
- Participate in client meetings and technical discussions.
- Analyse financial information and identify tax implications.
- Prepare reports, presentations and client deliverables.
- Collaborate with colleagues across Tax, Audit and Advisory teams.
The Experience You Will Gain
You'll gain exposure to both compliance and advisory work, allowing you to build a strong foundation across multiple areas of tax.
How We Will Support Your Development
At Grant Thornton, we are committed to helping our people realise their potential.
As a Tax Graduate, you'll benefit from:
- Structured learning and development programmes.
- Professional qualification support.
- Dedicated mentoring and coaching.
- Technical tax and legislative training.
- Study leave and exam support.
- Opportunities to work directly with senior stakeholders.
- Access to The Academy training programme.
- Clear pathways for long-term career development.
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Who We're Looking For
We welcome applications from graduates across a broad range of disciplines who are interested in business, problem-solving and advisory services.
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
- Curiosity for tax and business.
- A proactive and collaborative mindset.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- The ability to solve complex problems and think commercially.
- A minimum 2.1 degree, or expected equivalent, in any discipline.
It would also be helpful if you have
- Experience gained through an internship, part-time role, volunteering, university society or team-based project.
- An interest in how organisations change, improve services or make better use of technology.
Join Us
Join Grant Thornton's Tax team and help clients navigate an increasingly complex tax landscape. You’ll gain practical experience, develop specialist expertise and build the skills needed to become a trusted advisor while supporting organisations across Ireland and beyond.
Location and working arrangement: Belfast office, primarily office-based.
Application and selection process: Apply through link - complete our application form and upload your current CV. Closing date Thursday 22 October 2026. Selection process early November 2026. Start date Autumn 2027.
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We are Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton Ireland is rapidly approaching 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda. With a presence in over 149 countries around the world and a global network of 73,000 people, we bring our clients the local knowledge, national expertise and global presence to help them succeed – wherever they’re located.
At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed – wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right decisions for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter.
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A Career at GT
Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.
What does this mean for you?
A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.
Grow with us
At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.
Our Benefits
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Equity, diversity and inclusion
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.
We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.
Reward and benefits
Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.
Recognition
We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.
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