Are you looking to build a long-term career in Tax?

Then look no further! Start your career today with a level 4 ATT apprenticeship with Brown Butler Limited and Kaplan. You will be gaining valuable workplace experience including dealing with tax returns, information and reports.

About the Role

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience. As part of a busy team in our tax department, you will be involved in:

• Helping clients to understand the tax legislation and how it applies to them and their business
• Assisting clients to be compliant with current HMRC regulations and including preparing computations for companies for tax to be included in their end of year accounts
• Finalising their computations and Corporation Tax Return, CT600 for filing with HMRC
• Preparing tax returns for personal, trusts, executive pension schemes and partnerships
• General compliance including pre year end tax planning, employee benefit reporting, ensuring time limits are met and billing
• For the owner managed businesses we also ensure that the director/shareholders are also tax compliant which includes preparing their personal tax returns
• Tax planning advice and assisting with consultancy projects
• Ensuring the firms procedures on annual tax cycles are complied with
• Discussing clients matters with the client and with HMRC
• Assisting other group members in professional work

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Course Contents

• Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
• Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
• Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
• Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
• Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
• Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
• Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
• Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
• Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
• Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
• Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.