Graduate Accountant Trainee – Professional Practices – ACA

Join our ACA trainee programme and launch your career as a Chartered Accountant.

This full-time, permanent role includes three years of structured training and qualification support, giving you hands on experience, a competitive salary, and a clear path to long term career progression. We offer the job security of a permanent role from day one, cover your training costs, and support you every step of the way.

As a certified Great Place to Work, we're proud of our friendly and supportive culture, where colleagues work collaboratively and with integrity and honesty. We also recognise the importance of achieving a healthy work-life balance while developing a successful professional career.

As a trainee accountant within our Professional Practices team, you'll support law firms and other professional clients with the financial information and advice they need to manage their businesses effectively. You'll gain broad experience across accounting, tax (partnership, company and personal), audit (statutory and client money audits), and preparing analysis, forecasts and projections.

Our team has extensive expertise in the legal sector, and for law firm clients we produce detailed discussion documents explaining the accounts, benchmarking analysis, advising on capital funding and providing tax analysis. We have a strong national reputation in this area of work with clients across the country.

You will:

• Develop technical, commercial and interpersonal skills
• Help clients prepare year-end accounts, accounts discussion documents, management accounts, forecasts and projections
• Get involved with company and business taxation, company secretarial matters and VAT returns
• Gain a breadth of commercial, tax and general accountancy experience
• Be part of a high-performing team where teamwork, communication and collaboration are valued
• Develop strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills through exposure to a wide variety of client challenges

As you progress, you'll take on more responsibility and have opportunities to make a real impact.

You'll enjoy this job if you like:

• Taking initiative and achieving goals
• Communicating effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Building strong relationships and working collaboratively as part of a team
• Working with numbers, solving problems and applying critical thinking
• Being analytical, methodical and demonstrating strong attention to detail
• Working with integrity and honesty and taking pride in producing high-quality work

Studying alongside working is demanding, but you’ll be supported as you balance your role with regular independent study and revision for your professional exams. It typically takes around three years to qualify as a chartered accountant. The following one to two years are important for consolidating your knowledge, leading more complex projects and preparing for career progression into manager roles and beyond

Alongside your ACA qualification, you’ll receive training to help you develop the skills, behaviours and confidence needed to become a successful accountant.

You'll be supported every step of the way:

• A buddy before you start, to help you settle in
• A line manager and student counsellor who will help you stay on track with your professional qualification and career goals
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities beyond qualifications, helping you progress into manager roles and beyond
• The opportunity to build the communication, teamwork, problem-solving and leadership skills needed for a successful long-term career

Bright, motivated graduates who want to build a meaningful career in accountancy. This programme offers structured development, early responsibility, long-term job…