Job Description

In a nutshell
Is career progression important to you? This diverse accounting role offers a gateway to exciting opportunities across the rural economy.
At PKF Francis Clark, recognised as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing, we support your career growth while ensuring a healthy work-life balance.
Join our agricultural and landed estates team, where you'll work with a wide range of prestigious clients--from traditional landed estates and heritage properties to modern agri-tech enterprises and diversified rural businesses. These clients are not only stewards of the countryside but also innovators shaping the future of rural enterprise.
You'll provide expert accounting and tax compliance services, along with strategic tax planning advice, to farming families, estate owners, and rural entrepreneurs. Your work will span everything from succession planning and capital tax advice to business structuring and diversification support.
Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise, broaden your client portfolio, or take the next step in your career, this role offers a clear path to progression--surrounded by supportive colleagues, meaningful work, and a client base that values your insight. What you'll be doing day to day

• Oversee the planning, preparation and completion of annual farm and rural business accounts and tax computations, as well as sole trade, partnership, company and trust accounts
• Review of personal, trust and company tax computations and regular VAT returns
• Prepare of IHT returns and CGT 60 day returns
• Oversee client bookkeeping services and preparation of forecasts and projections
• Undertake detailed analysis of income and expenditure to support decision making, planning and control
• Identify financial, commercial and tax planning opportunities for clients
• Ensure that accounting records for clients are maintained and kept up to date
• Draft correspondence for clients; liaising with HMRC, by telephone and email
• Provide varied administrative and business set-up services for clients
• Exposure to various capital tax issues e.g. inheritance tax and capital gains tax
• Network at county roadshows, farm walks or local cattle markets. Sharing knowledge and catching up with other rural teams across our southwest offices
• Have opportunities to participate in meetings and visit clients on farm

About you

• AAT ACA/ACCA qualified (or nearing qualification), or qualified by experience, with relevant experience in a similar role
• Good technical knowledge of accounts preparation and tax compliance
• Committed, logical and accurate, with a methodical approach to work and strong attention to detail
• Experience in servicing different types of business entity
• Experience in using accounts and tax return software
• Able to work independently and demonstrate initiative in delivering an excellent service to clients

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. Your core benefits
Financial benefits:

• Pension
• Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
• Group income protection
• Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare

Health & Wellbeing benefits:

• Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
• Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
• Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
• Cycle to work*

Other benefits:

• Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
• Gifts for career and family milestones
• One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
• Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation

Please note

• These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee's post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.

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