Corporate and Business Tax ACA/CTA Graduate Trainee Programme (September 2025, City, London)

Get your career off to a great start by joining a Moore Kingston Smith training programme, enabling you to study toward professional qualifications while gaining on the job experience. Through our Level 7 apprenticeship, gain the ACA and CTA qualifications to become a fully qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Taxation Adviser. Promising challenging, interesting and varied experience, you’ll work with a mix of businesses across multiple sectors, as part of our Corporate and Business Tax Team.


We’re an accredited training firm, committed to giving everyone who joins us first class training in a personal and friendly working environment. Completing our comprehensive apprenticeship training programme over three years will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to excel in the role and deliver our stellar client service.


We’re all about working together to realise ambitions. So, our Business and Corporate Tax Advisers provide their clients practical, commercially driven, risk-assessed advice. They’ve been helping businesses with every aspect of their taxes for over 80 years, from managing risk, to employment tax, to navigating partnerships and LLPS and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

From the get-go, you’ll work with all kinds of clients, from large corporate groups to single entities. Our clients choose us because we understand them so well, so you’ll get to know our corporate clients and their owners, uncovering the obstacles they face, their preferences and the ways their industries work. The experience is varied. Some projects last a few days, others a few weeks. We encourage you to take responsibility early on, and you’ll get to grips with all aspects of the role. You’ll predominantly work with our Corporate and Business Tax team which provides a range of services to clients of the wider firm and tax only clients.


In addition to internal and external training, you’ll learn on the job through a range of key responsibilities including, but not limited to:

• Managing your time and communicating effectively with those you work as you typically working on around three projects a week, picking up ad-hoc tasks along the way.
• Making a direct impact on your clients’ business with tasks ranging from the annual tax compliance cycle (including a growing portfolio of large, complex international clients), tax audit, and working on bespoke tax advisory projects.
• Understanding a company’s financial statements and information, inputting relevant data into Alphatax, the software used for the preparation of corporation tax returns.
• Developing knowledge and understanding of tax legislation and adjustments required in a tax computation in order to calculate a company’s liability to tax.
• Receiving training across corporate tax such as transfer pricing, R&D and creative tax.

You’ll receive support and guidance in all your tasks, as you gain exposure across the wider business and learn the different ways we support and engage with our clients.


We have clear progression routes, and there’s plenty of opportunity to take your career in the direction you desire at Moore Kingston Smith. In fact, many of our partners started our as trainees here and through hard work, commitment and drive have gone on to leadership roles.

Who are we looking for?

The ACA/CTA training programme is open to graduates from any degree discipline, whether straight out of university or someone looking for a career change or return to work.


Skills this role requires:

• Enthusiasm for building strong relationships and collaborating with clients and colleagues, with close support from your manager.
• A proactive, results-driven attitude that ensures excellent client service.
• Strong commitment and reliability, enabling you to balance your studies and exams (with paid study leave) alongside your full-time role and responsibilities.
• A growth mindset and adaptable approach, with a willingness to continuously acquire new skills and knowledge, supported by your manager, apprenticeship coach and dedicated early talent team.

In order to be eligible for the programme, you will also need:

• Have obtained at least 112 UCAS points from three A-Levels, or equivalent qualifications
• Have achieved a 2:2 or above, from a degree in any discipline
• Be available and permitted to work in the UK, from the start date of the programme

Recruitment process

We recruit on a rolling basis, so would encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience to avoid missing out. The application process is made up of four stages:

1. Application
2. Interactive assessment
3. Virtual interview with one of the Early Talent team
4. Final interview in the office which you’re being considered for

If your application is progressed, we will reach out by inviting you to complete an interactive assessment online with more information on how to prepare and what to expect. This stage of the process will begin from Monday 7th October, so you'll receive the invitation for the interactive assessment from this date.