Key Takeaways
- Gain practical experience in Indirect Tax Advisory, working with clients on VAT and other transactional taxes.
- This is a Summer Vacation Scheme for penultimate-year university students aiming for a 2:1 degree or above.
- The role involves a hybrid working model, with some in-person assessment and induction.
- Applications close on 23rd October 2026, but early applications are recommended as roles may close early.
- Visa sponsorship is not provided, but students with a valid Student Visa may apply.
About the Role
About Indirect Tax Advisory
Indirect Taxes are taxes charged on everyday transactional activities, and our team advises on how businesses should manage these. The most well-known Indirect Tax is VAT, but we also cover other transactional taxes including Insurance Premium Tax and Air Passenger Duty, amongst others.
Our Indirect Tax Advisory team help our clients manage their VAT and Indirect Tax positions – whether it is advising on multi-million-pound transactions, VAT on everyday retail products, or how we can help clients adopt tech to report VAT correctly on their income and expenditure. As well as being at the forefront of tax technology, Indirect Taxes involve an understanding of case law, so skillsets and experiences in our team are wide-ranging.
What You'll Do
Indirect Taxes impact our clients throughout their supply chains and require us to have a detailed understanding of how their businesses work.
Within the Indirect Tax Advisory, your industry expertise will develop alongside your tax technical knowledge, enabling you to provide advice to clients that assists them to undertake their business. You will gain an understanding of client products, supply chains and processes/systems to enable you to advise them effectively. You will also work alongside Indirect Tax specialists in Technology areas, together with colleagues in other tax areas and across the wider Deloitte services.
Your work will range from compliance support, providing technical advice, support in disputes, advising on large transactions and other.
Development and Qualifications
We want our people to have world-class practical experience coupled with the technical rigour and knowledge that comes from the right professional qualification.
We think the best experience is being immersed in client work, working alongside other team members, and learning the practical skills that will set you up for a successful career. That will be the initial focus whether you are a Graduate, an Industrial Placement or a BrightStart, supported by internal training and support from coaches, people leaders, and your team.
We think this is vital and will set you up for success when we further support your development with a professional qualification, recognising that different roles across our business align to different pathways. The specific qualification will depend on the area of specialism you join and may include joint or accelerated programmes leading to qualifications like Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and Charted Tax Adviser (CTA) as well as other more specialist routes focused on tax or technical expertise such as Tax Customs qualifications.
Location and Working Style
At Deloitte we recognise how important face-to-face interaction is for your development in a new role. We also understand that our people need flexibility, which is why we operate a hybrid system, with a combination of office and home working. If you’re in a client-facing role, you might be expected to attend client sites on certain days, while your meetings will be a mix of online and in-person events. Please note your final assessment and induction will also be in-person, to give you the opportunity to network and build relationships.
All our workspaces are accessible, however, if you require further flexibility due to a health condition or caring responsibilities, please discuss this with our team.
Application Information
- This programme is for university students who are doing well academically and want to test their skills in the real world.
- You must be in the penultimate year of your course, or going onto a Masters, and you need to be on track to achieve a predicted degree classification of 2:1 or above in any discipline.
- We operate a strict one application per year policy across our Early Careers opportunities. We recommend only submitting an application for a role that you feel is right for you.
- You can only join our Summer Vacation Scheme if our dates coincide with your university summer vacation.
- We’re not able to provide sponsorship for this role. However, you can apply if you hold a Student Visa which is valid for the duration.
Application Deadlines
- The closing deadline for this role is 23 rd October 2026, but we recommend getting your application in as soon as possible.
- Please note, some of our roles may close before the deadline if we experience high demand.
- Once you’ve applied to this role, you’ll receive an email from our recruitment team outlining next steps and the relevant deadlines for you to complete the following stages of our process.