Training Accountant

This is an exciting opportunity for a Part Qualified Accountant to develop a long-term career with a growing financial and professional services business who provide services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities, and businesses.

In the role you will gain experience and training in a wide variety of accounting disciplines, including audit and taxation

Key Activities:

• Timely and efficient completion of tasks assigned, in line with firm operating procedures and processes, increasing to whole accounts/audit/tax/other projects with increasing independence as experience allows
• Qualification as either ACCA or ACA.
• Devoting sufficient time to professional studies in order to meet all study objectives set by tutors or the Line Manager and to achieve the best possible exam results.
• Attending technical courses, undertaking technical reading to ensure own technical competence, awareness of internal procedures and communications.
• Agreement of budget with manager as job commences, regular monitoring of progress against budget and feedback to supervisors.
• Regular, proactive communication with managers, Principals and other colleagues to update on progress with assigned work.
• Facilitating team work and spirit within the team

• Responsibility and initiative would be expected to increase over time, as far as experience allows.
• A degree of autonomy would be expected by the end of the training contract

• As aSemi senior hire you should have between 1 and 2.5 years relevant practice based experience
• Where optional papers are permitted under a qualification, it is expected that all trainees will undertake the practice focussed options

Skills, knowledge and competencies:

• Analytical and logical skills, particularly an ability to absorb high level concepts and apply them to different contexts/situations
• Technically up to date with awareness of relevant regulatory frameworks appropriate to level of experience/qualification
• An excellent attention to detail
• Professional and ethical skills, displaying integrity
• Good communication skills with a flexible, adaptable and committed attitude
• Studying for an accountancy qualification (ACA, CA, ACCA).
• Demonstrable audit and accounts experience gained within a professional services firm.
• Ability to motivate staff to ensure best performance.
• Strong communication skills in order to liaise with clients, directors, staff and other professionals.