Tax - Specialist Tax Graduate Trainee - Global Mobility - 1 September 2025 - London

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.

An introduction to our Global Mobility team:

We provide bespoke advice, helping our clients to navigate the complexities of cross border working, in an age of changing working patterns and tax legislation. We help our clients to fulfill their in-country reporting obligations. In doing this we help them to manage an area of significant financial and reputational risk and to make properly informed decisions, often as part of a wider tax project, working with our corporate tax colleagues.

We'll help you build on your expertise, experience and ambition to develop a rewarding and successful career. We want you to be yourself, to bring your ideas and creativity and to feel inspired as part of our Global Mobility team.

Hear from tax trainee, Leonie:

''It's great to be able to work with senior management and Partners on a regular basis who value your input and truly care about your personal development''

About the role

As a Global Mobility trainee, you will play a crucial role in supporting our clients to manage the compliance reporting arising from their cross-border employees, whilst also delivering advisory work, involving our overseas teams. Working closely with our team of experienced professionals, in the UK and across the globe, you will gain hands-on experience in managing of the delivery of our global mobility offering:
• Advice and planning for cross-border employment arrangements ranging from formal assignments to remote worker scenarios.
• Cross-border Tax and Social Security optimisation and compliance reporting
• The management of immigration risk and applications
• Tracking and reporting short-term business visitors
• Working with clients on their global mobility strategy and policy design
• The management of global mobility costs
• International payroll coordination and reporting

We'll help you build on your expertise, experience and ambition to develop a rewarding and successful career. We want you to be yourself, to bring your ideas and creativity and to feel inspired as part of our national tax team.

During your first two years you will:

• Meet and engage with our clients, speaking with people across a range of industries and countries
• Request and obtain relevant information from clients based across the globe, building worldwide relationships
• Develop a thorough understanding of personal tax computations and the impact of tax residency on them.
• Deliver presentations both internally and externally on tax residency and cross-border compliance

By the end of your third year you will:

• Work on a range of different global mobility advisory engagements covering a range of technical areas
• Develop a strong technical knowledge of the relevant UK tax legislation which is applicable to employees working cross-border
• Coach and lead more junior team members on advisory engagements
• Work directly with our clients and develop strong relationships with those clients to deliver on repeat engagements
• Begin to manage advisory engagements, including planning, budgeting and working as part of the wider tax team
• Develop a strong understanding of our control and risk management procedures

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 an undergraduate degree. 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 apprenticeship

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.