Job Description

In a nutshell
Gain a head start in your career with a 12-month Industrial Placement in our Agriculture and Landed Estates team. You'll gain hands-on experience and receive high-quality training alongside our graduate trainees, helping you build on your academic knowledge and develop the practical skills employers value. As a certified Great Place to Work, we offer the perfect environment to grow, learn, and take your first steps toward a successful career in accountancy. What you'll be doing
You'll join our Agriculture and Landed Estates team who work with a variety of clients from historic country estates to modern farming businesses. These clients care for the countryside and are also leading the way in rural innovation.
You will work as part of a team dedicated to the agricultural and landed estates sector to:

• Help clients prepare year-end accounts, management accounts, forecasts, and projections
• Get involved with company and business taxation, company secretarial matters and VAT returns
• Enable you to gain a breadth of commercial, tax and general accountancy experience

About You
You'll enjoy this opportunity if you like....

• Taking initiative and achieving goals
• Communicating effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Building strong relationships and working collaboratively
• Working with numbers and solving problems
• Being analytical and methodical in your approach

Your development
In support for you achieving the skills and behaviours required to be a successful accountant, you'll be trained alongside our first-year graduate intake and will work with our experienced professionals on real client projects.
At the end of your placement, if all goes well and you have demonstrated the skills and qualities to be a successful accountant, you may be offered a place on one of our three-year graduate programmes to become a Chartered Accountant (ACA) to gain the prestigious 'chartered' status. What we're looking for
Bright, motivated under-graduates who want to build a meaningful career in accountancy with an interest in Agriculture and Landed Estates.
Entry requirements:

• A second-year undergraduate university student on a four-year degree completing a work placement in your third year
• Predicted 2:2 degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 112 UCAS points (obtained from three A Levels or equivalent excluding general studies & EPQ)
• GCSE Maths and English at grade 4/grade C or above

How to apply
We review applications on a rolling basis, so apply early. We may close the vacancy once we've received enough applications. You can only submit one application per recruitment cycle, and we're unable to accept multiple applications for different roles.
We're committed to creating an inclusive and positive experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, whether related to a disability, neurodiversity, or any other need, please let us know, and we 'll do our best to support you. Why work at 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.

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