Global jobs in United Kingdom

Are you a self-motivated, hardworking, ambitious person looking for your next challenge? If you are, and you’re looking to join a national operation with international reach, then we have a great role for you, based at our Nottingham office on Park Row.

The UHY Hacker Young Group is a leading network of chartered accountants with 22 offices spanning England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also a founding member of UHY International, our Top 20 global network, which has over 318 offices in all major global business jurisdictions.

We are a people-first business, and we recognise that you, and the rest of our team, are essential to deliver on our purpose of helping you prosper, whether you are a client, a member of our team, or part of our wider community. We want you to be challenged, to learn and grow while you’re with us, to have fun in the workplace, work with like-minded individuals, and deliver great services. Are you looking to join a team that:

• believes in and delivers a culture of work-life balance, with a focus on wellbeing?
• provides a clear career framework and routes to progress?
• understands the importance of rewarding and retaining high calibre teams?
• delivered 20% growth in the last 12 months?

If so we would love to hear from you.

• Deliver an external audit service to a range of clients in a range of sectors.
• Assist the audit lead in the planning and completion of audit work.

As a placement student, your typical daily duties will include;

• Auditing client's financial information;
• Auditing a client’s financial information, purchase and sales invoices;
• Auditing bank balances and bank statements;
• Reviewing client payroll records for accuracy, reviewing VAT records, auditing a client’s
  fixed assets and auditing a client’s debtors and creditors;
• Ensure sound knowledge of a client and its industry by researching background information and useful publications;
• Develop communication skills and build relationships with key stakeholders;
• Develop and apply technical knowledge gained from studies and on the job experience;
• Attend in-house technical training as required;

Ensure timesheets are completed on a weekly basis.

The working week: 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday) to be worked from 09:30-17:30 / 09:00 – 17:30 with flexibility of hours to meet specific work demands.

Location: Your principle work based is our Nottingham office.

• Study Package, including TOIL (Time off in Lieu) (TOIL up to AM, Study support only if agreed)
• 31 days holiday (including bank holidays & Compulsory Christmas shutdown counted as part of holiday entitlement )
• The ability to ‘purchase’ extra days leave in salary sacrifice
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Season ticket loan (for travel)
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity pay
• Pension Scheme arrangements
• Employee discount platform – UHY Plus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our wellbeing portal

• Minimum A-levels, B,B,C grades (or equivalent and excluding general studies);
• Grade B/6 or above in GSCE Maths and English Language (GSCE or equivalent).

• Ability to work hard to complete near term tasks;
• Energy, stamina and persistence in achieving longer-term objectives.

• Conscientious and properly completes tasks
• Willing to put the needs and interests of others (including “work”) before personal needs
• Maintains standards and completes tasks in difficult circumstances
• Remains stable and self-controlled under stress

• Willingness to adapt to and change in new circumstances
• Ability to identify new or different ways of doing things
• Active in taking steps to make sure things happen

• Consistent or improving record of academic attainment over time
• Application to “weak” or “disliked” subjects and courses
• High levels of achievement over a diverse range of subjects
• Learning well in a difficult or challenging environment

• Success when in a position of responsibility, ensuring that a team or group works together and achieves its purpose; or contributing to a group in a similar way
• Success when in a position of responsibility, ensuring that a team or group works together and achieves its purpose; or contributing to a group in a similar way
• Organising a group, allocating tasks
• Setting, monitoring and achieving aims
• Resolving disputes and difficulties
• Ability to influence and persuade others

Well researched, enthusiastic and knowledgeable on;

• the work and role of an accountant
• the challenges of the exams
• UHY
• Successful involvement with customers; putting the customer first
• Successful working relationships with colleagues
• Applying or improving procedures
• Measuring or improving performance
• An appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of businesses or organisations that they have been involved with
• An understanding of what it takes for a business (or other organisation) to be grow, and an ability to put that understanding into practice
• A successful involvement in sales or marketing
• Successful self-promotion (eg. in obtaining elected office)

Our core values and behaviours run through everything we do and support our purpose of helping you prosper. They set the tone for our team to work by and we are looking for people who value the same things as us: living empathy, making progress, being present and enjoying it!