In a nutshell You'll join our three-year training programme to become a Chartered Accountant (ACA). We pay for all your training and qualifications and support you every step of the way. We are ranked in the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list 2024 for the second year running, making this a brilliant place to embark on your accountancy career.
You ll work across a variety of sectors, experiencing a wide range of high-quality clients, from start-ups, AIM-listed companies, and inspirational not-for-profit organisations. As a trainee accountant you will work in either our audit & assurance, business advisory or professional practices teams.
You get to work in small project teams (typically 2-4 people) on a wide range of medium sized and large businesses for 1-2 weeks at a time. This is a great way to learn and develop technical, commercial and personal skills. You ll identify key issues and risks facing a business each year and use data analytics tools as part of ensuring information reported is accurate and reliable. You ll also gain experience in preparing annual statutory accounts and tax calculations, as well as assessing forecasts and projections.
Our business advisory teams help our clients prepare year-end accounts, management accounts, forecasts, and projections. Therefore, you ll gain a breadth of commercial, tax and general accountancy experience in this role.
Our professional practices teams are leading specialists, supporting law firms, doctors, and a range of other professionals with all the financial information and advice they need to successfully manage their business. You ll gain a great range of experience, including accounting, tax (partnership, company and personal), audit and preparing analysis, forecasts, and projections.
Our hybrid working enables you to split your time between the office, home, and client sites. As a trainee you ll attend the office frequently for formal training and on-the-job learning and with our caring and open culture you ll very quickly feel like a valued member of the team.
As an ACA trainee accountant, you ll need to do regular independent study outside of working hours and to revise for your professional exams.
We recognise that personal development training is essential in helping you to become a trusted business adviser, so you will receive support and learning not only for your professional qualification but also towards the skills and behaviours that are required to be a successful accountant. When you join us you will have a line manager and a student counsellor who will help ensure that you are on track with your professional qualification and career aspirations.
You might be an undergraduate, a recent graduate, or a graduate who has already established a career and wants to switch and start a new career in accountancy. Grade 4-9 or C or above in GCSE Maths and English
We recommend applying ASAP as we close roles early if we receive enough applications to fill all our opportunities.
As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisors in South West England, joining PKF Francis Clark brings opportunities to develop your career in a direction that interests you.
Our culture is flexible and supportive, enabling you to be the best you can be. We re also ranked among the UK s Best Workplaces for Women (33 out of 90 large organisations), Best Workplaces for Development (30 out of 100) and Best Workplace for Wellbeing (44 out of 100).
Workplace culture experts Great Place to Work also highlighted PKF Francis Clark as a top achiever among the UK s Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services.
And in recognition of our outstanding training programmes for graduates, school leavers and career changers, we ve been ranked among England s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for two years running.
Whilst we re proudly independent, PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms together we re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of a global community of business advisors in 150 countries provides opportunities to expand your horizons by connecting with PKF colleagues around the world.
Financial benefits:
• Pension
• Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
• Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare
Health & Wellbeing benefits:
• Option to buy 5 extra days holiday
• Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
• Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
• Cycle to work
Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
• One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
• Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation
These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.