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Build your accounting career with us, from home
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Train with us, practise on real clients and grow into a full role in a UK accountancy practice. Your practical experience is confirmed for AIA membership, and the whole team works remotely.
3 monthspaid traineeship on real tasks
100%remote, all systems provided
Your path
From training to a full role
Every step is clear, so you know what comes next and what we expect.
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Training
About a month: our services, talking to clients, preparing quotes and the work of the role.
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Video interview
Questions, situational and written tasks, done online when it suits you.
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Development
Once accepted, free programmes matched to the role you applied for.
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Paid traineeship
Up to three months on real tasks, after you have read and signed our policies.
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Employment
An employment contract, starting part-time and growing to full-time.
Qualify while you work
Become a qualified accountant with AIA
You do not need to stop working to qualify. Register as a student of the Association of International Accountants, sit the exams at your own pace, and build the practical experience AIA requires with us.
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Register with AIA
Join AIA as a student while you work with us, full-time or part-time.
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Sit the exams
Prepare and sit the AIA exams alongside your work, at your own pace.
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Build your experience
AIA requires three years of supervised work. Experience with us counts, before, during or after your exams.
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We confirm it
Our AIA-qualified practice principal supervises and certifies your experience record every year.
AIA's requirements: three years of relevant, supervised experience, completed within ten years of student registration. See AIA work experience requirements.
Why join us
A career, not just a job
We train the accountants we hire, and we stay with them as they grow: the same idea that won us Visa Everywhere Pioneers 2025.
Experience for AIA
Your practical experience confirmed officially for the Association of International Accountants.
A reference that counts
After the traineeship you receive a written reference and a recommendation from us.
Grow at your own pace
Start with part of the workload and build up to full-time as your practice grows.
Clear standards
Every task has a time standard, so you always know what good work looks like.
Free development programmes
Once accepted, you get free training matched to the role you applied for.
Before you start
How to prepare for your video interview
It is an in-depth interview that lets us see you from every side, so give yourself time and a quiet place.
- It is a video interview: you answer questions on camera, and complete situational and written tasks
- Check that your camera and microphone work before you start
- Have your CV ready, and references from previous employers
- Allow one to two hours. You can pause and continue later
- We look at your professional knowledge, how you think, how you act in a crisis, how you work with colleagues and how you organise yourself
How to start
- Choose your vacancyRead the role and the full job description below.
- Press "Start your video interview"A short form opens. Give your consent to the recording and to how we use your data.
- Press "Start now"The interview opens on our recruitment platform, Syntegrum, in a new tab.
Open vacancies
Choose your role
Every interview opens on our recruitment platform in a new tab. When you press "Start your video interview", we first ask for your consent.
Accounting Assistant (UK practice)
Help our team keep the books of UK clients: documents, bank statements and the records behind VAT and Self Assessment. Ideal as a first job in an international practice, or as a step towards becoming a VAT and Self Assessment accountant.
Full job description
What you will do
- Process clients' documents: bills, invoices and receipts
- Enter data in accounting software
- Work with bank statements and reconcile payments
- Prepare the records for VAT and Self Assessment
- Check documents are complete before returns are filed
- Tell the team about missing documents or errors
- Work to our instructions and checklists
What we are looking for
- A basic understanding of bookkeeping
- Attention to detail and accuracy with numbers
- Confidence with Excel or Google Sheets
- Happy to handle a large volume of similar transactions
- Keen to learn UK accounting: VAT and Self Assessment
- Responsible, and you meet deadlines
Nice to have
- Experience with Xero, QuickBooks or other accounting software
- Experience with bank statements
- Basic English for reading names, invoices and terms
What we offer
- Remote work and flexible hours: results matter, not hours sat at a desk
- Training and support from senior accountants from day one
- Clear instructions, templates and gradually more complex work
- A clear path to VAT and Self Assessment accountant
- A steady workload and long-term cooperation
- A professional practice with clear processes
PAYE and CIS Accountant
Run payroll for UK clients, file PAYE and CIS returns and keep their payroll tax under control, including construction clients and their subcontractors.
Full job description
What you will do
- Run payroll through PAYE
- Prepare and file payroll returns to HMRC
- Calculate and check Income Tax and National Insurance
- Run workplace pension schemes (auto-enrolment)
- Keep CIS records and reports
- Verify subcontractors and check deductions are right
- Prepare and file monthly CIS returns
- Deal with clients and HMRC on PAYE and CIS questions
- Keep track of clients' deadlines and tax liabilities
What we are looking for
- Experience as a PAYE and/or CIS accountant
- Good knowledge of PAYE: Income Tax, National Insurance, pensions and statutory payments
- Practical CIS experience: registration, verifying subcontractors, deductions and returns
- Knowledge of HMRC requirements and filing deadlines
- Experience with accounting and payroll software, such as Xero, BrightPay or Sage
- Attention to detail, responsibility and analytical thinking
- Confidence with spreadsheets and data
- Self-organised and comfortable working remotely
What we offer
- Remote work from home and flexible hours
- Competitive pay with room to grow your income
- Professional development on the UK market
- A supportive team and clear internal processes
VAT Accountant
Prepare, check and file VAT returns for UK clients, analyse their VAT records and put errors right, working independently and to deadlines.
Full job description
What you will do
- Prepare, check and file VAT returns
- Check that output VAT and input VAT are calculated correctly
- Analyse VAT records, find errors and correct them
- Deal with HMRC on VAT matters and prepare replies to enquiries
- Keep day-to-day bookkeeping within your area
- Take part in internal checks and help improve our processes
What we are looking for
- Good knowledge of VAT law and practice
- Experience preparing VAT returns
- Confidence with accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks or FreeAgent
- Ready to learn new software quickly
- Analytical thinking and care with figures and documents
- Disciplined, and able to manage several tasks at once
- Clear communication with the team and with clients
What we offer
- Competitive pay, with income that grows with your workload and results
- Professional development and training
- A supportive team and clear processes
- Flexible hours and remote work from home
Self Assessment Accountant
For an accountant who understands Self Assessment in substance, not by template: who reads the figures, sees the risks and takes responsibility for every return.
Full job description
What you will do
- Analyse the books and records of self-employed clients
- Prepare and file Self Assessment returns
- Calculate and check Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax
- Work with spreadsheets, financial analysis and checking figures
- Deal with HMRC
- Spot errors, risks and the best solution for each client
What we are looking for
- Experience with UK Self Assessment
- Confident knowledge of UK Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax
- Understanding of bookkeeping for the self-employed
- Confidence with accounting software and HMRC online services
- Strong Excel: tables, formulas and checking calculations
- Attention to the details that could cost a client a penalty
- Analytical thinking and an understanding of how tax calculations work
- Independent, responsible and comfortable in a team
- Able to structure information and see things through
What we offer
- Flexible hours and remote work
- Competitive pay, depending on experience and workload
- Interesting clients and real cases
- Professional growth in UK tax
- A supportive team and clear internal processes
Senior Review Accountant, Central Accounting Review Team
The final level of review for our UK franchise network. You do not keep the books: you review, analyse and approve complex and high-stakes returns before they go to HMRC.
Full job description
The Central Accounting Review Team makes sure that clients' returns meet HMRC's standards and our own brand standards. It is a role for experienced accountants who think like auditors and experts. The team is the guarantee of quality, reputation and trust in the brand.
What you will do
- Review tax and financial reporting: VAT, Self Assessment and statutory accounts
- Review the returns of VIP clients and complex cases
- Control the quality of work by our accountants and franchisees
- Find systematic errors and risks in reporting
- Approve complex returns for filing with HMRC
- Recommend improvements to our accounting standards
- Protect the brand's quality and compliance
What we are looking for
- A degree in accounting, finance or audit
- Experience with the UK tax system
- In-depth knowledge of VAT, Self Assessment and statutory accounts
- Practical experience at review or senior level, checking other people's work
- Understanding of HMRC requirements and the risks of tax enquiries
- Experience with Xero, QuickBooks or similar systems
- Close attention to detail and analytical thinking
- Able to argue and defend a professional position
- Experience with VIP clients is an advantage
Central Operations & Systems Lead
The owner of every digital process in our franchise system: CRM, access, the HMRC agent structure, franchisee onboarding and technical standards.
Full job description
This is not a support role, and not "IT on call". You own the system, and you keep the business ordered, controlled and ready to scale.
What you will do
- Take full responsibility for the CRM (Perfectum or similar): logic, structure, roles and access
- Set up and control automations: onboarding, tasks, triggers and deadline control
- Manage the structure of the HMRC Agent Services Account
- Control access to HMRC, the CRM and internal systems
- Run technical onboarding for new franchisees
- Keep the same technical standards across every franchise unit
- Work with head office on changes to processes and systems
- Write and update the instructions and standards for our systems
What we are looking for
- Experience with CRM systems such as Perfectum, Bitrix or HubSpot
- Understanding of how an accountancy or consulting firm works
- Basic understanding of the HMRC agent account structure, or ready to learn it fast
- Systems thinking and attention to detail
- Able to design how a process works, not just complete tasks
- Experience automating processes is a big advantage
- Independent and responsible for results
Client Manager
The link between clients, the unit's team and head office. You run the full operational cycle with clients, so deadlines are met and cash keeps flowing.
Full job description
A franchise unit cannot work without this role: the Client Manager keeps the processes in order and every client moving through them without delays.
What you will do
- Onboard new clients: collect information and documents, and coordinate the start of work
- Track deadlines for clients and the team's tasks
- Issue invoices to clients
- Check payments and send reminders about overdue amounts
- Keep in touch with head office and pass on the information it needs
- Update client statuses in the CRM
- Make sure every client moves through our processes without getting stuck
What we are looking for
- Experience with clients, administration or operations
- Highly organised and responsible
- Able to work to deadlines and handle several tasks at once
- Good written and spoken business communication
- A basic understanding of invoices, payments and accounts
- Confident with a CRM and Google Docs or Sheets, or ready to learn fast
- Able to follow instructions and processes
- English good enough to write to head office
What we offer
- Remote work
- Clear processes and instructions
- Support from head office
- A path to operations manager of the unit
- A steady workload and long-term cooperation
Head of Methodology & Compliance
The heart of our franchise model and a trusted right hand to the founder. You own one accounting and tax methodology for the UK and international structures, and make sure every franchisee follows it.
Full job description
Not an operational accountant and not a client manager: a methodologist, an arbiter and a guarantee of quality. Franchisees cannot change the methodology. Every rule, template and approach is approved at this level.
What you will do
- Build and maintain one accounting methodology for UK and international clients
- Set and control standards for VAT, PAYE, Self Assessment, CFC and complex international cases
- Create and update templates, checklists and internal instructions
- Follow changes in HMRC rules and update the methodology quickly
- Make the final call on complex, unusual and disputed cases
- Approve VIP clients and unusual structures before we take them on
- Advise unit managers and franchisees
- Check that every franchise follows the methodology
What we are looking for
- A degree in accounting, finance or tax
- In-depth knowledge of the UK tax system
- Practical experience with VAT, PAYE, Self Assessment, CFC and international structures
- Experience dealing with HMRC and understanding how enquiries work
- Analytical thinking and the confidence to make final decisions
- Able to turn knowledge into rules, templates and instructions
- A high level of responsibility and professional ethics
- Experience in consulting or an accountancy practice is an advantage
New to UK accounting?
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Courses for accountants
Our training covers UK bookkeeping, tax and the way we work with clients. Graduates can apply to our team straight after the course.
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Not necessarily. Everyone starts with our training, so we know you have what the role needs. Experience helps, but how you think, learn and work with people matters just as much.
Yes. All our team work remotely. You get access to our software, server and telephony, and everything you need to do the job on the company's resources.
Yes. During the traineeship of up to three months you work on real client tasks under a traineeship agreement, and you are paid for that work.
Yes. We confirm your practical experience officially for the Association of International Accountants, and after the traineeship you receive a reference and a recommendation from us.
Usually one to two hours, because it includes situational and written tasks. You can pause it and continue later, so you do not have to do it in one go.
Usually not. After the traineeship you sign an employment contract and start with part of the workload. As you gain practice, we add work until you are full-time.
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