Acca Graduate Trainee

**About us**:
We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

Want to join our challenger firm? Read on.

**The Role**:
An excellent opportunity has arisen for the right individual to join our team. Davis Grant are a highly successful accountancy practice based in Ilford, East London who have recently merged with Gravita and are now part of the Gravita Group, a top 30 Accountancy practice. Our client base is hugely varied and includes clients in sectors from tech start-ups, property investment companies, large group companies and non-listed Plcs.

This is an exciting opportunity for those looking to enhance their knowledge within professional services and businesses in general as well as coming a key and highly valued member of the team whose core values listed below are central to all that we do:

- One Family
- Champion Integrity
- Here For You
- Unequivocal Excellence
- Exhibit Professionalism

**Job role**:

- Training to become a fully rounded accountant with exposure and knowledge of each department, including Accounts, Audit, Payroll, Bookkeeping and company legal aspects.
- Aim that within 12 months simple limited company accounts and tax can be prepared.
- Audit fieldwork as part of an audit team
- Immediate direct client involvement

**Requirements**:

- Excellent English both spoken and written
- Good knowledge of Excel would be advantageous
- Understanding of the accounting profession
- Must be highly enthusiastic and self-motivated
- Can work as part of a team or independently
- Ability to drive would be useful

***Your career with Gravita***:
When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

At Gravita, we put people first. To ensure your wellbeing inside and outside of work, we regularly review and refresh our policies based on what matters most to our team. When you join Gravita you can expect:

- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- 5% Employer pension contribution
- Enhanced parental and family leave
- Healthshield, reimbursing up to 100% of your everyday healthcare costs
- Employee assistance programme
- Extensive learning and development support including Continuing Professional Development (CPD) allowance
- Reimbursement of one professional subscription per year
- Season ticket loan
- Perkbox

**Our values**:
Having one set of values informs how our team works, as we strive towards our goals. It’s these values we look for in people who want to join our team.

**We are ambitious**

Determined and armed with a can-do attitude. We innovate, challenge the status quo and champion forward-thinking.

**We value relationships**

People are the core of our business. We build relationships rooted in integrity, commitment and trust.

**We care deeply**

We’re eager to do our best work - and ensure we’re conscientious, considerate and empathetic to everyone while doing so.

**We communicate clearly**

Communicating with respect and positivity is paramount. We encourage feedback to be clear, constructive and actionable.

**We get things done**

We work at pace but ensure we always do things the right way, believing that momentum and precision can work in harmony.