ETL GLOBAL UK is a professional services group uniting leading UK partner firms in accounting, tax, legal, advisory, and centralised services. Our success is built on the strength of our people, combining deep expertise with a collaborative culture that values long-term careers, meaningful client impact, and shared knowledge across firms.
We empower colleagues to take ownership of their careers, work on challenging engagements, and contribute to teams that consistently deliver industry-leading solutions.
ETL GLOBAL UK brings together specialist firms that retain their individual identities and local heritage while benefiting from the connectivity and strength of the wider group. This allows our people to enjoy the autonomy of working within a respected UK firm, while accessing cross-firm collaboration and global exposure.
Across the group our firms are recognised for excellence, from award-winning audit teams to market-leading corporate finance and tax specialists, providing colleagues with meaningful, high-quality work that builds expertise and credibility.
To support ambitious businesses and individuals with expert advice, while creating an environment where our people can thrive, grow, and succeed.
We focus on long-term careers rather than short-term gains, investing in structured development, mentoring, and progression so that colleagues at every level can grow into leadership roles.
Collaboration Over Hierarchy
Expertise with a human approach
Long-term thinking
Trust, integrity, and accountability
Professional services offers more variety than you might think. Across audit, tax, legal, and advisory teams, every day looks different, and is shaped by real client challenges.
You'll develop technical expertise while gaining exposure to different industries across the wider group - all while connected to close-knit teams that understand you and your journey.
Tax shapes decisions, drives growth, and helps businesses advance. Our teams work across corporate, personal, and international tax, helping clients to navigate complexity and make informed decisions at every stage of their journey.
For you, that means developing deep technical expertise while building these important relationships.
Our legal teams work across corporate, commercial, employment and regulatory matters, supporting individuals and organisations through both everyday challenges, and life changing moments.
You'll work alongside experienced lawyers and multidisciplinary teams, gaining broad exposure while developing your own strengths and homing in on your own interests.
Working closely with clients across a plethora of sectors, our audit teams combine sharp thinking with insatiable curiosity, to understand how businesses operate and where they can strengthen.
This kind of environment provides you with varied work, meaningful responsibility, and the chance to build skills that'll stay with you through your entire career.
From financial reporting and planning, to strategic advice and problem-solving, our accounting and advisory teams work closely with businesses at all different stages in their growth journey, helping them turn information into action.
You'll be a part of something bigger than the numbers, strengthening the foundations of organisations near you, and across the UK.
Behind every successful client outcome is a team making everything possible. Our centralised services teams bring together support across IT, HR, finance, marketing, operations and compliance, to support the broader ETL family.
Within these teams, you'll improve how things work, and help to cultivate an environment where others can do their best work – all while fostering your own strengths.
The group has established a presence in Africa, most notably via WerthSchröder, which represents the group in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria, offering legal, tax and business advisory services that support both local enterprises and international investors navigating the region’s expanding markets.
WerthSchröder’s Africa Desk provides cross‑border expertise that spans corporate law, regulatory compliance and commercial advisory work, with professionals serving clients in multiple languages and working across diverse African jurisdictions.
"The Global group provide integrated legal, tax and advisory support across African markets, helping clients and colleagues navigate complex regulatory and commercial environments.”
ETL GLOBAL Africa Desk
ETL GLOBAL’s group extends across the Americas, supported by the ETL GLOBAL Latam Desk, which connects European and UK expertise with firms and clients in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico to facilitate cross‑border investment, regulatory support and business advisory services.
This presence provides opportunities to engage in multi‑jurisdictional work, broaden commercial experience and collaborate with international colleagues across tax, legal, accounting and advisory engagements.
"LATAM offers great opportunities for foreign businesses thanks to improved policies and digitalisation efforts by governments. At ETL GLOBAL Latam Desk, we support European SMEs to reach their full potential in Latin America.”
ETL GLOBAL Latam Desk
ETL GLOBAL’s presence in Asia is built around member firms such as Dezan Shira & Associates, a long‑established pan‑Asia professional services firm providing integrated market‑entry support, tax, accounting, legal and business advisory across countries including China, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Vietnam and more.
This group of offices and alliance partners gives colleagues exposure to some of the region’s most rapidly evolving business environments, where navigating regulatory frameworks and supporting international investment is core to client work.
"With more than 30 years of on‑the‑ground experience across Asia, we support clients by helping them navigate the region’s complex regulatory environments and seize growth opportunities".
Dezan Shira & Associates, ETL GLOBAL Asia Pacific member firm
ETL GLOBAL has deep roots in Europe, with its origins in Germany and a strong group of partner firms across the continent, including Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia and beyond.
The group’s European international desks, such as the French, German, Italian, Spanish and UK desks, help clients navigate cross‑border legal, tax and regulatory challenges in their own languages and business cultures, providing a platform for colleagues to engage in multi‑jurisdictional work and broaden their professional experience.
"ETL GLOBAL has long been ranked among the top professional services groups in Europe, supported by close collaboration across jurisdictions and shared expertise to help clients navigate complex international requirements”.
ETL GLOBAL International Desks
ETL GLOBAL operates in Australia and New Zealand through its member firms, delivering integrated tax, legal, accounting, and advisory services to both local businesses and international clients.
Professionals in the region engage in cross‑border projects, support the growth of SMEs, and advise on complex commercial and regulatory matters, gaining exposure to diverse industries and dynamic markets across the Asia‑Pacific region.
“Australia is a natural fit for European SMEs seeking to expand their businesses.
ETL GLOBAL Australia overview
Our career paths span a wide range of professional services disciplines, all built around real client work, development, and long-term growth.
Experienced professionals join teams where their expertise is valued and challenged. You’ll lead complex client engagements across accounting, tax, legal, and advisory services, collaborating with award‑winning UK teams, with opportunities to specialise, take ownership, and grow at your own pace with tailored mentoring and development.
Senior leaders in the UK are often developed internally, bringing deep experience and a commitment to the growth of the people they lead. This creates stability, trust, and clear progression opportunities for colleagues.
Leadership isn’t only about client delivery, it’s about people development, team culture, and long-term growth for UK colleagues.
From a trainee to CEO
“I've had that progression, i've pushed forward”
“We are a close and collaborative team”
ETL GLOBAL UK firms operate with integrity at their core, combining ethical client service with professional responsibility. We prioritise colleague wellbeing, providing mentoring, development opportunities, and supportive leadership at every stage of a career.
Across the group, we are committed to sustainable business practices, with some firms, such as Gerald Edelman, achieving B Corp certification. Responsibility, ethics, and people‑centred leadership guide everything we do.
