PKF Francis Clark |

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisors in South West England, joining PKF Francis Clark brings opportunities to develop your career in a direction that interests you.

Having celebrated our centenary in 2019, we’re a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro.

Our culture is flexible and supportive, enabling you to be the best you can be. We work hard to ensure you can be yourself, develop and be part of a forward-thinking team that makes brilliant things happen. But don’t just take our word for it.

PKF Francis Clark is certified as a Great Place to Work. In 2024, we climbed nine places to 24 out of 105 large organisations on the list of the UK’s Best Workplaces.

We’re also ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women (33 out of 90 large organisations), Best Workplaces for Development (30 out of 100) and Best Workplace for Wellbeing (44 out of 100).

Workplace culture experts Great Place to Work also highlighted PKF Francis Clark as a top achiever among the UK’s Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services.

And in recognition of our outstanding training programmes for graduates, school leavers and career changers, we’ve been ranked among England’s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for two years running.

Whilst we’re proudly independent, 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 a global community of business advisors in 150 countries provides opportunities to expand your horizons by connecting with PKF colleagues around the world.

Our values underpin everything we do, guiding the way we interact with each other, how we behave and work together to achieve our ambitions.

• Commitment to put the client first
• Compassion to respect everyone
• Responsibility to care for each other, our environment and communities
• Courage to be ambitious
• Expertise to deliver excellence

We offer a supportive and flexible culture, taking your career seriously to enable you to be the best you can be. In September 2022, PKF Francis Clark was certified as a Great Place to Work. In February 2023 we were ranked as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (40th out of 79 among large organisations). We work hard to ensure that ours is a culture where you can be yourself, develop and be part of a forward-thinking team that makes brilliant things happen.

In February 2023 we were ranked as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (40th out of 79 among large organisations).
We have mental health first aiders and have well being Wednesdays where every week something is offered to everyone to take part from talks about finance, mortgages and money to fitness, healthy eating and mental health talks.

Your core benefits will include:
Financial benefits
Pension, group life assurance, group income protection

Health & Wellbeing benefits
Employee Assistance Programme with counselling and support for you and your immediate family, option to buy 5 extra days holiday, virtual GP for you and your immediate family, health cash plan for you (and up to four children) to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare and cycle to work.

Other benefits
Bonuses for career and family milestones, volunteering days, emergency support from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation for current and ex - employees.

When you join as a trainee the firm pays for all your training and examinations. If you are a graduate trainee you’ll study towards the Chartered Accountant qualification (ACA) or ATT/CTA. You’ll spend 80% of your time at work and 20% of your time training with an external training provider, this could be in person or online. You’ll attend the external training in blocks, for days or sometimes weeks at a time.

ACA and ATT/CTA is a level seven qualification and takes three years to complete. Your exams and training are fully funded by the firm.

There is the opportunity to further your ambitions in many ways for example taking further professional qualifications, on-the-job training, soft skills training, mentoring and so on. The possibilities are very open!