Job description

Accountancy, finance and banking are popular choices for graduates. Many large financial and business services companies operate popular graduate recruitment schemes and employ significant numbers of graduates who benefit from paid training as they seek to determine which career path to follow.

Graduate training schemes allow graduates to experience many aspects of the financial sector, including:

• Financial and management accounting.
• Audit and advisory work.
• Taxation.
• Insurance and actuarial work.

Trainees may work for chartered accountancy firms in public practice, providing accounting and advisory services to companies or organisations. Alternatively, they may work within the public sector or for companies in commerce and industry where the finance functions are performed internally.

Graduate training schemes operate throughout the United Kingdom, although the bulk of opportunities are in London and the South East, where much of the financial sector is concentrated.

Graduates can expect to find training schemes rewarding and fulfilling. Training involves hard work and long hours, with trainees expected to manage study alongside full time work - although occasional study days are granted.