2025 Tax Graduate Programme – South East (Southampton)
Location: Southampton
Salary: £28,500
Applications close: 10th March 2025
Programme starts: 22nd September 2025
About Tax
Enjoy untangling complex technical details? Relish connecting with brilliant people? If you love solving problems in new and unique ways, aided by the latest technology: Welcome to tax at BDO.
Our tax professionals thrive in rewarding careers, drawing on their comprehensive experience to deliver industry-leading insights and innovation. Here, you’ll be welcomed as a valued team member as you contribute to our important work. Day-to-day, you’ll find yourself advising on employment taxation and international tax, supporting merger and acquisition transactions, performing VAT services, bonding with your teammates, and laying the foundations for a successful career.
About the Tax Graduate Programme
This is a chance to learn the industry inside out. Over three years, you’ll get hands-on experience on real projects, balance your work and your studies, and study towards a CTA or ACA/CTA qualification. With the support of BDO’s subject-matter experts, you’ll gain a range of personal, management, and commercial skills that take you from a graduate to a well-rounded professional. All you need to bring is inquisitiveness, a mind for problem-solving, and a hunger for knowledge. And after the programme, there’s a permanent role waiting for you.
This environment has been built to facilitate your development – from partner-led monthly workshops in our Tax Academy to the relationships you’ll build with your national tax trainee cohort. Discover beyond the ordinary – for your skills, your professional network, and your career.
Join us in either our VAT Tax team or the Corporate Tax team.
About You
Wherever you work with us, you’ll need to be curious, resilient, and adaptable. We’re big on relationship-building across all our teams, so we’ll help you build excellent communication and interpersonal skills.! Bring a data mindset, strong logical and analytical skills, and critical thinking – we’ll give you the tools and training to develop everything else you'll need.
Due to the current minimum salary requirements set by the Home Office we are only able to offer sponsorship in some of our office locations. You and the role you are applying for must meet the UK Home Office visa eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa. You can check the eligibility criteria before you apply for a career with us, by clicking here.
Programme-specific requirements:
A 2:2 degree in any discipline (obtained or predicted)
Three A-levels or equivalent at A*-C excluding General Studies and Extended Projects (obtained or predicted)
9-4 in Maths and English at GCSE/Scottish Standards or equivalent
Ability and commitment to balance study and professional work
About BDO
Operating out of 18 locations across the UK, we’re one of the world’s largest accounting and business advisory firms – but we’re so much more than that. The ambitious, high-growth businesses we work with boost the economy, and our people’s careers. This is where you’ll provide meaningful advice and solutions. Build thriving businesses. Feel respected at all times. Learn. Grow. And go beyond the ordinary – because your development is our priority.
Accountancy isn’t what you think it is. It’s dynamic, hands-on, and collaborative. The best part? The people. We’re a friendly, diverse bunch who work hard to achieve the best outcomes – and love to celebrate when we do. It’s one of the ways we prioritise wellbeing, along with agile, flexible working and extensive benefits that cover your lifestyle, money, and all aspects of your health. We’re all about supporting you to be your best, inside and outside of work.
Discover life at BDO from all angles – the office, corporate sites, or occasionally, your home. We’ll need you to join us in the office so we can best support your development, so ensure you’re a commutable distance away.
Your career deserves a beyond-the-ordinary start. Apply to join us today.
Our firm is distinctive because we preserve and build on the strengths of our culture and the characteristics that make us successful and different. We look for people from all kinds of backgrounds who share these same qualities.
