Providing a future in finance
For the vast majority who follow the accountancy route, it can lead to a fulfilling and financially rewarding career. It does involve hard work, but put the effort in and, as the UK accounting and tax qualifications are respected internationally, the world is your oyster, with opportunities being available worldwide. You can pursue a career in general practice, work in industry, or specialise in one of the many available fields that fall under the accountancy banner, such as audit, tax, corporate finance, management accounting, bookkeeping, or insolvency.
Qualification
The qualification to strive for depends on the career path you want to pursue. If you are going down the private practice accountancy route, you would tend to start with the AAT qualification, which leads to numerous exemptions from the exams required to become a fully qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA). If you are considering tax as a career path, then you should look at taking the ATT exams first, which leads on to the more onerous CTA exams and qualification. Working as a management accountant in industry, you should consider the CIMA qualification, as that is geared to this career path. At Ground Control UK, we support AAT, ATT, ACA, ACCA, and CTA training and qualifications.
The Process
Starting out as an apprentice in either our bookkeeping, business management, or tax departments, you will develop the basic skills needed to undertake your day-to-day role in the company, training for the AAT or ATT qualification.
Once you understand the basics and have shown the desire and skills needed, there will normally be the opportunity to progress to more complex accountancy or tax work, which often involves working within the different departments to expand your experiences as far as possible.
Having passed your AAT or ATT exams, hopefully you would want to progress onto the harder ACA, ACCA, or CTA exams, enabling you to call yourself a chartered accountant or chartered tax advisor. By this stage, we would expect you to be moving towards a more supervisory role.
Having trained and qualified at Ground Control UK, we would hope that you would want to stay with us and take up a managerial role when the time is right for both you and us.
What Our People Say
“I joined Ground Control UK as an Accounts Associate back in August 2020, after graduating from the University of Plymouth with a First in BA Accounting and Finance. Over the course of the next year or so, I played an important role in the growing accounts team. My main tasks were to prepare both company accounts and corporation tax returns, as well as sole trade accounts. After a few months, I then started my journey to become a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW. As there are a range of exams covering different areas of accountancy and tax, I was given the opportunity to take on responsibilities in the tax team, which included the preparation of personal tax returns and more advanced corporate tax for group companies.
“In April 2022, I was promoted to Senior Accounts Associate, which was then quickly followed by another promotion in October 2022 to Accounts Supervisor. In this role, I manage the team's workflow and review accounts, corporation tax returns, and VAT returns. But one of the most exciting aspects of the role is that I have started to build my own portfolio of clients, which is putting me in good stead to look towards becoming a manager in the near future.”
Amelia Tompkin – Accounts Supervisor
What Our People Say
“My name is Emmanuel Lindsay. I joined Ground Control UK just over 6 months ago now. I had previously studied my AAT Level 2 with a traineeship group known as LTSB. Before joining Ground Control UK, I had no experience working within the finance sector, but when I arrived at Ground Control UK, I was greeted with a warm embrace and made to feel a part of the team here straight away.
I’ve been given a lot of support during my time here to help me learn and grow further. I’m very excited to soon be starting my studies alongside my work and have faith I will succeed in my endeavour, no matter how challenging it may be, with the support of my team and experienced colleagues helping me.”
Emmanuel Lindsay
Speculative applications
We're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our growing team. We welcome speculative applications from individuals looking to further their careers. Please get in touch; we want to hear from you.