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You'll join us as a trainee accountant, where, over the next three years, you'll be supported to study for and achieve the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) professional qualification via an apprenticeship. We are ranked in the Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list 2025, making this a brilliant place to start your career.

Wage: Competitive

Competitive wage offered

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5.00pm, with one hour for lunch. 37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date: Monday 1 December 2025

Duration: 3 years

Positions available: 1

One thing we can guarantee is that no two days will be the same. Every client is different, so you'll be challenged with new opportunities daily. 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. This role will be based in our audit & assurance team.

In Audit & Assurance, you'll:

• Regularly visit clients' premises, so every day is different.
• 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.
• Identify key issues and risks facing a business each year and use data analytics tools as part of ensuring the information reported is accurate and reliable.
• Gain experience in preparing annual statutory accounts and tax calculations, as well as assessing forecasts and projections.

Each year that you are with us, you will build upon the knowledge and experiences that you have gained and be given more responsibility as you grow and develop.

Sigma House Oak View Close
Edginswell Park
Torquay
Devon
TQ2 7FF

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You'll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

FIRST INTUITION LIMITED

Professional accounting technician (level 4)

Understanding apprenticeship levels

• Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
• Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
• Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
• Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
• Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
• Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
• Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a 'right first time approach'.
• Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
• Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
• Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
• Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Training schedule: You'll study with an external provider, spending a day a week at college to help you learn and prepare for your AAT exams.

Essential qualifications

• A Level in: Any (grade B or above)
• A Level in: Any (grade B or above)
• A Level in: Any (grade C or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that's right for you. Established in 1919, we've grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we're big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. For the past three years, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked among the UK's Best Workplaces. In 2025, we climbed four places to 20 out of 100 large organisations on this prestigious list. We're also ranked among the UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (35 out of 100), Best Workplaces for Development (24 out of 100) and Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services. All these lists are compiled by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work. Our rankings are a direct result of feedback from our people in a confidential, independent annual survey. The success rates of our trainees mean we're also ranked 33rd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025. While we're proudly independent, we collaborate with colleagues around the world to enable our clients to succeed. 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 this international network provides opportunities to connect with like-minded accountants and business advisers in 150 countries.

After this apprenticeship

AAT.

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

PKF Francis Clark

Rosie Fleming

Careers@pkf-francisclark.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342627.

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Closes on Friday 31 October 2025

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