PKF Francis Clark |

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that’s right for you. 

Established in 1919, we’ve grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we’re big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. 

We work hard to ensure you can belong, be yourself and be brilliant as part of a forward-thinking team. This includes a flexible approach to hybrid working. And our focus on wellbeing and learning and development has been recognised nationally. 

For the past three years, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces. In 2025, we climbed four places to 20 out of 100 large organisations on this prestigious list. 

We’re also in the UK’s top 10 Best Workplaces for Women (6 out of 100 large organisations), as well as being ranked among the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (35 out of 100), Best Workplaces for Development (24 out of 100) and Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services. 

All these lists are compiled by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work. Our rankings are a direct result of feedback from our people in a confidential, independent annual survey. 

The success rates of our trainees mean we’re also ranked 33rd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025. 

While we’re proudly independent, we collaborate with colleagues around the world to enable our clients to succeed. 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 this international network provides opportunities to connect with like-minded accountants and business advisers in 150 countries. 

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!