I’m looking to get my foot in the accountancy sector. I’ll be graduating this year; most likely with a 2:1 and have not yet been able to secure an ACA training contract. The plan is if I can’t get one to try and get some work experience in any accounting type role for 6 months – 12months instead; then apply again next year.
Can anyone recommend the type of job that would be best suited for what I need, for example?
Accounts assistant
Payroll
Etc
Thanks for the help
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Have you applied for an ACCA training contract?
Although we are a Chartered Accountants practice, we got [***] off years ago with the ICAEW's over severe exam programme and became an ACCA training firm instead. An ACCA qualification will allow you to do everything that an ACA qualification does.
Work in a practice
I am not sure if it is what you were intending, but working anywhere other than in a practice is not going to impress an employer in practice. The work experience you need to set up your own practice is working in someone else's practice.
I am slightly puzzled by your insistence on applying for a training contract. When we take on an unqualified employee, we employ them as a trainee accountant or accounts assistant (it doesn't matter what title you give the job) and encourage them to train for ACCA. We do not offer training contracts per se. It is probably just terminology, but it is better to apply for a job by offering to work for the employer rather than by demanding training from him.