Graduate Accountant

UHY Hacker Young are now recruiting for Graduate Accountants to join their graduate scheme.

UHY Hacker Young is a growing and successful accountancy practice, with 23 locations all over the UK. Their Birmingham office was established in 1989 and is based in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter, close to the City Centre.

UHY Birmingham is an associated network of UHY firms which operate both nationally and internationally.  They are a top 20 firm in the UK, with a fee income of £54m.

The UHY offer to Graduate Accountants?

• An attractive starting salary, one of the highest in Birmingham, to reflect the diversity of their portfolio
• A generous annual retention bonus
• Fully funded face to face professional training, primarily offer ACA training but are prepared to support other institutes if required
• In house training, which enhances performance in examinations

See UHY Hacker Young (Birmingham) LLP "The Rise and Rise of the Graduate Accountant" this details the support they offer graduate accountants including the path for promotion. This document can be downloaded from their website.

Their client base is broadly split between the private and public sector and clients include:

• Family and owner managed businesses - from start-ups to well-established enterprises
• Significant consultancy projects, including:
  
  • Commercial and public sector clients
  • Establishing new companies and supporting their financial framework
  • Exploring opportunities for productivity and efficiency improvements
  • UK clients with international subsidiaries
  • Not for profit organisations
  • Health and care organisations - from NHS integrated care boards to acute hospital trusts
  • Schools - from multi-academy trusts to single academy trusts and free schools
  • Wealthy individuals and families

Health & Wellbeing

UHY Birmingham also supports staff by:

• Simplyhealth wellbeing package
• Funded social events including sporting events

Essential Skills

• Must have good A level qualifications.
• Achieved or be predicted a 2:1 or higher in a University degree.
• Preferably the A levels and degree need to cover mathematical or scientific disciplinary.

Desired Skills

• You will be naturally confident, an excellent communicator and enjoy meeting and engaging with people and clients at all levels of seniority
• Your organisational skills will be exemplary with real attention to detail
• Able to achieve deadlines as part of a Team
• Are able to more between the sectors of work UHY Birmingham operates in, by being flexible in your work approach
• Work hard as part of a team or as an individual
• Contribute to social events
• Wishing to achieve advancement UHY

In return UHY Birmingham will provide you with exceptional:

• In house training
• Full support on all aspects of your formal professional training
• Diversity of client portfolios

While UHY would like to contact all candidates, unfortunately, this is not possible so if you have not heard from them one week after the closing date, your application has not been successful.

Please note that we do not accept CVs from recruitment agencies.