EY Ireland - Tax Graduate Programme 2025

This opportunity is available in the following locations: Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Galway, Limerick

Start date: September 2025

Before submitting your application:

Thank you for choosing EY for your future graduate programme! Before submitting your application, please read the below information so we can help to set you up for success.

• Please note you may only apply to one 2025 EY Graduate Programme. All additional applications will not be considered.
  

• When submitting your application form, you will be asked questions on which area of our business you wish to join. To help you navigate this decision, we have provided some in depth information on our service lines and offerings in the below job description and here on our website.
  

• How do I choose which area of EY to join?
  

• EY in Ireland is split into two business units. The difference between the two are the clients we work with in each. To help you decide, please read the below text before continuing.
  

• UKI (Non-Financial Services Clients): Industrial, Commercial & Technology Clients including Automotive & Transportation, Government & Public Sector, Health & Life Sciences, Mining & Metals, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction, Technology, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment.
  

• Financial Services (Financial Services Clients): Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance, Aviation Finance, Other Leasing, Securitisations/Structured Finance.
  

• If I apply to this EY Graduate Programme, can I choose another programme preference?
  

• Yes! As part of your application, you may choose a second graduate programme of interest.
  

• Can I choose a specific team as part of my application?
  

• Yes! If you wish, you can also submit a preference for a specific team! Please read the job description below for more information on our teams within Tax.
  

Please note that all preferences noted within your application cannot be guaranteed. However, we will do our best to accommodate you. We wish you the absolute best of luck!

Hello, we’re EY.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through consulting and help clients grow, transform and operate.

By joining one of EY’s award-winning Graduate Programmes, you’ll receive world-class hands-on training that has real-world application. You’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too.

Here you can seek out the experiences, learnings, skills and relationships that will shape your career and beyond and be inspired by great leaders so you can lead and inspire others throughout your career journey.

Your story starts now.

The Tax Graduate Programme

Tax offers one of the most exciting, challenging and rewarding careers out there. Companies today face increasingly complex tax changes, which means our role as reliable advisors is more important than ever. Our clients rely on our Tax team’s extraordinary understanding to best manage their financial position and ensure they’re being taxed properly. If you are passionate and possess an insatiable hunger for knowledge, we want you to apply for our Graduate Programme in Tax.

We welcome students from all disciplines and backgrounds to apply. If you are passionate and possess an insatiable hunger for knowledge, we want you to apply for our Graduate Programme in Tax.

What type of work could you be doing?

• Please remember if you have a preference for a certain team within Tax, make sure to note this on your application form! All preferences cannot be guaranteed; however, we will do our best to facilitate you.

• Corporation Tax (Compliance and Consulting/Advisory)
  

The Corporation Tax team is focused on helping clients deal/comply with the ever changing national and international tax laws across the tax lifecycle of Planning, Policy, Controversy Management, Reporting and Compliance. The team use cutting-edge technology platforms and work with a diverse and wide range of clients - many of the world’s largest multinational companies across all sectors including Technology, Life Sciences, Retail and Financial Services.

• Indirect Tax (VAT)
  

Imagine kick starting your day by helping clients get VAT refunds in excess of €1m back from Revenue or advising them on the sale of a property on Grafton Street leased to one of your favourite retailers? In any given day you could be advising on a diverse range of issues, for a broad range of clients, working on the indirect tax treatment of life changing medicines to co-ordinating the customs treatment of moving your favourite drinks around the globe. Our work and our clients are so diverse and interesting that no day is the same. Are you ready to play a leading role in helping shape the future?

• Private Client Services
  

Working with high-net-worth individuals and their families advising them on all aspects of their tax affairs including personal tax planning, residency, estate and succession planning and asset protection. We also advise privately owned companies including family business on a number of matters including M&A, transition of shares to next generation, re-organisations, governance structures etc.

• Transfer Pricing
  

In Transfer Pricing, we assist companies with appropriately pricing and documenting their intercompany transactions to comply with various countries ‘rules and legislation which is imperative in managing tax risk. We do this by understanding their business (i.e., functions performed, assets employed, and risk assumed by each associated company in a related party transaction) through functional interview of the stakeholders and provide advisory, compliance support and litigation support in relation to their intercompany transaction pricing across various jurisdictions.

• Real Estate Services
  

The EY Real Estate Tax Team provides specialist due diligence and structuring advisory services on the acquisition, development, financing, holding and disposal of real estate in Ireland. Our tax compliance services cover all tax heads relevant to the real estate sector.

• People Advisory Services (PAS)
  

Our People Advisory Services (PAS) practice provides bespoke personal tax consulting advice and tax compliance services, in addition to advising individuals and employers on their work permit and cross border immigration obligations. Our PAS tax service covers all aspects of personal taxation, employment tax, self-employed individuals, social security, share/equity compensation and executive remuneration. We also assist employers in designing Mobility Policies to ensure regulatory compliance and talent development. We are a globally integrated practice and operate across more than 150 jurisdictions.

• Research and Development (R&D)
  

The EY quantitative services group help businesses to access funding, grants, and incentives for their innovation, sustainability initiatives, and capital investments to achieve their innovation, sustainability and growth ambitions, thereby unlocking long-term value for our clients. The quantitative services team have a wide variety of skill sets from IT, Engineering and Life Science to Tax and Accounting.

• Transaction Tax
  

In Transaction Tax, we work on all tax aspects associated with Mergers & Acquisitions across a diverse range of sectors (e.g., technology, renewable energy, life sciences, etc.). Working closely with other Transaction Tax team members and tax subject matter specialists from across the organisation, transaction tax involves:

• Performing tax due diligence procedures for our clients,
  

• Providing assistance to our clients in respect of both pre- and post-acquisition structuring and integration,
  

• Working closely with our colleagues in Strategies and Transactions to deliver a comprehensive service offering and value to our clients,
  

• Liaising with clients and their legal advisors to achieve the desired commercial outcome in a tax efficient manner while also managing tax risk through the contractual process,
  

• Review of financial models from an Irish tax perspective to assist our clients in evaluating the commercial opportunity available,
  

• Assisting in the provision of tax advice to clients on a range of advisory projects.
  

What working at EY offers

You want a career that counts, rewards performance and ultimately secures your future. Our success is founded on yours.

Our comprehensive total rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

In addition, your wellbeing is our priority. We can only build a better world, together, by putting your wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. EY has a range of programs to support you in looking after your own wellbeing and that of your colleagues, from remote working options to Employee Assistance Programs and wellness events.

Training & Development

Joining the EY Graduate Programme in Tax gives you the opportunity to not only become a fully qualified accountant, but a Chartered Tax Advisor too! You will refine your talents and enhance your knowledge within your chosen specialism. Naturally, you’ll also build up a network of amazing people and be exposed to all sorts of industries through your everyday work.

As part of the EY Tax Graduate programme, you will have the option to complete both the Chartered Accountants Ireland qualification (ACA) and the Irish Tax Institute qualification (AITI) together, or the AITI qualification only.

To support you on your career journey, we offer world-class learning and development support as you pursue your professional qualifications, including fully paid exam fees and study leave, exam bonus schemes, internal exam support sessions and more. In addition, while there will be a certain focus on building your technical skillset, we also want you to gain the skills needed to manage your workload and create a healthy work/life balance.

This programme is normally 5 years in total (depending on your exam route and exemptions), with many opportunities to stay at EY post-qualification. Upon the completion of the EY Graduate Programme in Tax, you will, quite simply, be one of the most employable young people in Europe.

Skills and attributes for success

• A minimum 2.1 or higher in your chosen bachelor's degree
  

• A client-oriented, professional services mindset
  

• Exceptional execution and delivery mindset
  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  

• Great attention to detail
  

• Proficiency to manage several projects simultaneously
  

• Ability to prioritise tasks and work well under pressure
  

• Aptitude to present on subject matter areas to an audience
  

• You demonstrate integrity, respect, and teaming
  

• You have the energy, enthusiasm and the courage to lead
  

Apply today!

We aim to create a diverse workplace, which contributes to our objective of building a better working world. We are looking for people from all academic backgrounds – including business, science, engineering, arts, humanities, health, law, and more.

Building a better working world. Starting with yours.

Applications close 23rd October 2024.