Trainees
TRAINEES
We’ve designed our three to five year associate programme to take you on a journey to becoming a professionally qualified business adviser.
In that time, you’ll pack in lots of learning and new experiences. You’ll help us provide market leading business advice to support our clients’ growth. You’ll study and revise for your exams. You’ll work with organisations of all shapes and sizes across a range of sectors. You’ll also have the chance to work on a variety of exciting projects and help provide a great client service. It’s not easy to do all of these things at the same time. But it’s as rewarding as it is challenging.
Working with clients in many different sectors, you’ll get a better understanding of the complete business lifecycle.
'The team spirit here is just amazing.' Katie Bellamy-Burt
You’ll also enjoy being part of a firm that has a strong sense of purpose and is helping businesses, people and communities thrive.
We work with banks, regulators and government to rebuild trust. We work with dynamic organisations to help them grow. And we work with the public sector to build a business environment that supports growth.
Being part of a dynamic global firm driven by independent thinkers, we provide high quality business advice to a wide range of clients in countries all over the world.
Our clients are operating in uncertain times. It’s our role as an auditor to act independently to support trust and integrity in the business.
Right from the start, you’ll develop relationships built on credibility and trust with clients across a wide range of sectors. As you will get to spend time with clients at their sites, you’ll get to the heart of how they work and what challenges they face. You’ll learn how to provide the business with the best advice they need to grow and make the right decisions about the future. With a relentless focus on quality and integrity, you'll help our clients to flourish.
The Channel Islands are world renowned for being an international finance centre and a lot of our audit engagements are in that space. Your work will not only make a difference to your clients, but will help enhance the reputation of the Channel Islands as a global leader and a centre of excellence in the financial services markets. We also deliver audit services to local, commercial enterprises, that helps them develop and grow both at home and abroad.
Whether you are in the local or financial services market sector, your role will be challenging, rewarding and interesting. You’ll get hands-on experience of different aspects of audit, working on all kinds of projects ranging from the simple to complex. This variety of work makes the audit role both stimulating and rewarding.
Our clients rely on us to make sure they do the right thing and are operating within the law. Providing advice on their business goals and bringing them commercial insight, we help them build sustainable growth and operate with integrity.
If you want to be at the forefront of business issues then you could be a perfect match for tax. The work you’ll do with your clients is of huge importance. After all, bad tax advice can lead to damaged reputations and expensive consequences. You’ll help your clients manage their tax obligations efficiently and responsibly.
We provide a variety of local and specialist tax and you’ll gain hands-on experience, working with a variety of dynamic clients. We’ll help you to learn how to interpret complex legislation, deliver different solutions and provide our clients with clear advice and recommendations they can count on.
Our tax advisers provide expertise in such areas as corporate tax, personal tax, financial services tax, private client, real estate, tax investigations, restructuring, trusts and VAT. It’s an area that offers lots of variety and opportunities.
Working with businesses of all shapes and sizes, in advisory you’ll help a range of different clients whose businesses contribute to the growth of the economy in the Channel Islands and beyond.
Getting involved with interesting and dynamic parts of the business cycle, you’ll help organisations either start up, expand or begin a new chapter. You’ll understand and get under the skin of our clients’ business strategy, and provide innovative solutions that unlock growth – our business advisers have lots of responsibility.
Your goal will be simple. To listen to clients, have insightful conversations and understand their business challenges and needs. And then provide the advice and solutions they need to achieve their future goals. It takes tenacity, a keen eye for detail and a real passion for helping all kinds of businesses. Is this you? And are you ready for the challenge?
We’ve a range of advisory teams, providing advice in such areas as: transactions, and complex, international and forensic insolvency. Some of our business advisers even choose to specialise in recovery and reorganisation services. This is a growing area that offers plenty of variety, opportunities and interesting work.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of something bigger. Free to be yourself, confident and approachable. You must be a great relationship builder who can inspire everyone around you with your energy and ideas.
You’ll help our clients to tackle their burning issues and future challenges. Listening hard and asking the right questions is at the heart of providing great business advice. We’ll enable and empower you to do just that, so you can show initiative and bring new ideas and perspectives to the table to help our clients and the wider economy to grow.
You should share our CLEARR values – Collaboration, Leadership, Excellence, Agility, Respect and Responsibility. Always striving to grow yourself, you should be driven to succeed with the ability to see tasks through to the end and remain agile, even when things don’t go to plan. Your ability to see the bigger picture and also drill down into the small detail will make you stand out from the crowd – a real natural when it comes to solving problems, you’ll be able to analyse the numbers and back them up with strategic advice. Being a part of a team is at the heart of how we work here – you’ll be able to balance working as part of a team and take ownership of the part you play.
What’s in it for me?
Structured training. New experiences. A supportive team. Exciting real-life projects with our clients. A variety of career routes to explore. You can look forward to all of this and more.
Helping to drive our business forward, you’ll have the opportunity to make a big impact with a firm that’s making a difference.
You’ll gain the knowledge and develop the skills you need to go on and become a trusted adviser with a deep understanding of business.
As well as learning on the job, you'll enjoy rigorous training, starting with your orientation that will immerse you in our business, vision and purpose.
During your three to five year programme, you'll study towards a qualification at college where you’ll take part in regular training and developmental conversations to ensure you’re developing the skills, knowledge and behaviours of a well-rounded business adviser. We'll cover the costs and give you paid study leave to attend the courses and exams.
You’ll study towards one of the following professional qualifications, depending on the business area you join:
• CAT (Chartered Accounting Technician)
• ACA (Associate Chartered Accountant)
• ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
• ATT (Association of Tax Technicians)
Everyone here enjoys a competitive salary based on local market rates and the cost of living.
You’ll have a benefits package which includes holidays, pension, private medical cover, life assurance and income protection.
At the end of your graduate or school leaver programme, you'll become professionally qualified and all kinds of opportunities will open up.
As one size doesn't fit all when it comes to career progression, we'll give you advice and guidance to help you get where you want to go.
Where you take your career and how fast you progress is down to you. If you can demonstrate that you're ready to take on more responsibility, your progression can be fast.
How to apply
Once you have decided which area you want to work in, the first step of our application process is to complete a very quick and easy online application and upload a copy of your CV. You can also tell us about yourself in the Personal Summary section.
You will then have an initial interview with our People & Culture team. This is to find out more about you as an individual and how you demonstrate our core values.
Should you move forward to the next stage of the process, you will be invited to undertake our aptitude tests. These measure verbal and numerical comprehension and error checking. This will assist us in the decision making process as a certain level of aptitude in these areas is required for a career in accountancy.
Finally, you will be invited to meet some of the team you will be working with. This is typically a manager or director and they will be able to answer any technical questions you have about the role, tell you more about the day to day work and the structure of the department.
The People & Culture team will guide you through the process and are more than happy to answer any questions you may have at any stage of the process.
Positive action recruitment process
We are an inclusive employer and committed to ensuring our workforce is representative of our diverse society. We therefore make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply.
If adjustments are required at any stage of the process, or to discuss the options we can provide, please get in contact with us.
If you wish to apply in a different format, please contact us via email recruitment@gt-ci.com and we will respond using your preferred method of contact, to discuss your application.
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