Tax One Year Business Placement
Sign up to hear first when we openOur Tax One Year Business Placement offers valuable opportunities for those in their penultimate year of study to gain experience in one of the world's leading Tax and Advisory organisations. This one-year programme will give you an insight into our firm and help you to build your knowledge of how multinational companies do business.
This programme has been purposefully designed as a step towards a possible Graduate offer if you’re successful on the programme. This offer would only be for the same location and business area as that in which you undertook your One Year Business Placement programme. As such, please ensure you have a commitment to the programme location and business area that you apply to.
As a constantly changing and complex field, Tax offers the opportunity to be involved in a variety of challenging and high-profile projects. As part of a dynamic and successful area of our business, our Tax teams work with a wide range of organisations and individuals, helping them to implement the tax approaches that best suit their commercial needs within domestic and international legal and regulatory requirements.
On our One Year Business Placement Programme, you will get the work experience, technical training, business insight and personal development opportunities that should equip you with many of the skills that you will need to succeed in your career.
For your placement you will be allocated to our Capital Allowances team which sits within the wider Claims and Incentives team in our Business Taxes practice area. The team includes a combination of surveyors, tax professionals and accountants who assist clients in accessing the tax relief available on their capital investments.
Our firm’s hybrid working model balances the flexibility of working from home with the importance of collaborating and learning in offices or at client sites. We trust our people to be where our clients need them to be, with our client-facing colleagues working together as often as needed. You’ll be empowered by the technology that supports us to work flexibly and collaboratively in our office spaces, building friendships and shared experiences, innovating and learning together.
Join us, and be inspired to feed your curiosity, grow in your own way and uncover a world of opportunities.
Programme summary
Programme overview
Capability: Tax & Law
Programme length: 1 year
Qualifications: N/A
What we look for
At KPMG, everyone brings a unique perspective, and we want to ensure that you have the best opportunity to demonstrate your potential. We want to discover your individual strengths and attributes to help us to know whether you’ll enjoy working here and how you’ll thrive. That’s why we operate an open access policy and an application process that will assess both your qualifications and your qualities.
Generally, you’ll be expected to demonstrate the following grades (*or equivalents), to show that you’re able to successfully study for professional qualifications. If you are a few grades or points short, we would still encourage you to apply, as your application will be reviewed together with your performance in our assessments. You‘ll also have the opportunity to provide additional information for us to assess your application and potential in the context of your socio-economic background and/or any extenuating circumstances, which may have a positive uplift on your academic achievements through contextual recruitment. You can find out more here.
- Grade 5 or B GCSE* Maths
- Grade 5 or B GCSE* English Language
- 120 UCAS points* from your ‘top’ 3 grades, excluding General Studies under the 2017 tariff point system at A Level (300 UCAS points pre-2017)
- On track to achieve a 2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline.
Key skills
Throughout the recruitment process we will be looking to learn more about your strengths.
To be successful on this programme, you will be required to demonstrate the strengths that we look for in our graduates at KPMG.
Learn more about what we look for and how to apply here.
Training and development
The training and development of our people is critical to the future success of our business. We want to empower you to grow in your own way, to feed your curiosity and embrace a growth mindset in an environment where learning is continuous. Therefore, we have created a rich curriculum and learning community to help you build your skills and fulfil your potential. This ranges from an immersive 5-day induction experience to help you transition to the world of work, formal training courses, leadership knowledge bites, learning journals, online courses and networking events – all aligned to our ‘learn for a lifetime’ strategy designed to help you gain an advantage for life.
Additional important information
Please visit our Applying to KPMG page to discover more about our application process.
We are unable to offer sponsorship for some Graduate roles, and so we are unable to accept applications for the corresponding One Year Business Placement programme from individuals requiring visa sponsorship after graduation.
Visit our International Students page to find out more about visas and requirements.
For anything else, please refer to our FAQ section.
Case study
Emily
When I did the KPMG internship, it was challenging and I had to use my initiative – but that also made it really rewarding, and I found I was supported by KPMG too. The people at KPMG are very inspiring to work with. From this experience, I knew exactly where I wanted to be after I graduated.
Now I’m here on the Tax Graduate Programme in the Transfer Pricing team. I’m really enjoying it - you’re encouraged to try new things and to go for it. It's a really positive atmosphere in that sense.
I love the work too. Transfer Pricing is very similar to Economics. It’s essentially involves determining the substance of transactions as well as analysing industry and economic trends. It requires a lot of problem solving, which I really enjoy. The partner is fantastic to work with and I have learnt so much.