Aat or Aca Accounts Trainee

Is a career in Accountancy for you? Would you like to get a head start with some relevant 'on the job' experience while you study for your recognised qualification? Then starting your career with our apprenticeship programme is a good option.

Let's be clear, we recruit all our apprentices with a view to them going on to complete their respective chartered qualifications, as recognised by the ICAEW.

**Graduating or looking for something new? What next? How about**:

- Competitive salary and benefit package.
- Work-life as well as work-study balance.
- Agile working policy with working from home opportunities and flexible hours.
- Full study support to gain a globally recognised qualification with the ICAEW.
- Linked learning approach with Kaplan or First Intuition, who are award winning training providers.
- On the job training and practical experience.
- Face to face contact with decision makers early on.
- A career within a national organisation, with access to a in a global network of 30,000 people across 147 countries.
- Working with a wide range of entrepreneurs, owner managed businesses and subsidiaries of large international groups.
- Secondments opportunities further down your career and more

**Who are we?**

We’re a dedicated team of like-minded accountancy professionals. Our clients range from healthcare professionals, leisure & hospitality businesses to renewable energy enterprises and we get involved in issues that affect gaming developers and motorsportsengineers.

We are ranked among the UK's top 12 accountancy firms, combining high levels of technical expertise with the kind of personal service often only found in smaller firms.

In 2020, we won the **Best Advisory Services** category of the new Business Resilience Awards, organised by Accountancy Age. Previously, we won **National Firm of the Year, Tax Team of the Year and Graduate and Non-Graduate programme of the Year**at the British Accountancy Awards, we internationally re-branded, and we grew substantially with a few high-profile mergers.?It's?an exciting time to join the firm

As part of a multi award winning medium sized firm, you will have the opportunity to work with our wide and eclectic client base across the accounting and financial spectrum. That means really getting to grips with the inner workings of a company and findingways to help them - whether that's working on taxing technicalities or devising strategies to help them fulfil their commercial potential.

You'll have client contact from the very start, that's why your ability to build great business relationships is just as important as your ability with numbers.

**What will I do?**

You'll be part of the Accounts team working on accounts preparation assignments, so it goes without saying that you need to be someone that can be relied upon to help the team deliver outstanding levels of client care.

Some of your responsibilities may include working closely with your mentor on a wide range of client accounts, working from source documents to final accounts, corporation tax computations and obtaining technical information on clients, where appropriate.

We'll make sure you have the right experience, personal development and training to make your career stimulating and rewarding. We'll carefully balance your practical experience to reinforce your professional training. Combined, these two crucial elementswill help you achieve your qualification.

Along with your peers, you will be assigned mentors who will support and guide you as well as dedicated tutors who will ensure your progress and development is on track.

**Entry Requirements**

We do not require AAT or ACA Trainees to have a business or financial background. However, we do ask that all applicants have achieved, or are predicted to achieve **at least 112 UCAS points** (based on the new 2017 UCAS Tariff) from 3 A-levels - or equivalent, all achieved during the same exam year. This excludes General Studies.

We are looking forward to reading more about your academic background, motivations of starting a career within accountancy and why you have applied to MacIntyre Hudson