Azets

Accountancy School/College Leaver (AAT), Gloucester, Autumn 2025
Location: Gloucester
Job Level: Associate
Business Area: Accounts & Business Advisory
Contract Type: School College Leaver
Ref number: EC01418

About us
At Azets people lie at the heart of what we do. Collaboration and sharing empowers us all to achieve our purpose of making our colleagues, clients and communities lives better every day. With the everchanging economic landscape and advances in technology, there has never been a more exciting time to start a career in accountancy.

As an Azets Trainee, you will be actively supported throughout your Azets career and will learn from the vast expertise held by your colleagues. Whether you're a school or college leaver, a graduate ready to make your mark, or someone seeking a new challenge, Azets is the perfect launchpad for your journey.

We are committed to offering development opportunities to all of our staff, from early stage Trainees through to Senior Partners. As a trainee, you will get the opportunity to pursue a professional qualification specific to the business area you will be working in. We believe in nurturing your potential and setting you on the path to success.

The role
Our Accounts and Business Advisory Services (ABAS) teams lie at the heart of our relationships with our clients. They rely on us to make sure they remain compliant with the myriad of Accounting, Tax and other regulatory filings a UK business has to make. Developing your skills in helping clients prepare and file accurate, high quality and timely financial accounts and returns will give you the foundational analytical skills to underpin the development of advisory skills.

Dealing with annual compliance and filing is just one part of the ABAS story, we deliver real value by helping our clients spot issues & opportunities within their business, develop strategies to improve their business or problem solve, and ultimately help them achieve their business and personal goals.

Your initial phases of training will focus on accounting and tax technical skills, while also focusing on developing communication, team working and client care skills which form the bedrock of a well-rounded business advisory skillset.

While working as part of a client facing ABAS team, you will be supported and mentored within a structured, collaborative environment. A significant element of your development will come from real-life application of core technical and interpersonal skills. Team working gives you a collaborative and supportive environment to do this.

Your training in ABAS also focuses on equipping you with a technology tool-kit based on the latest cloud and AI enhanced technologies. Effective Technology is one of our strategic pillars, and is supported by continuous investment in and development of our digital toolkits. We also have deep strategic partnerships with some of the World’s leading business and accounting technology companies – they help us support your development of key transferrable digital technology skills. This is further supported by a very active Digital Success Community focused collaborative learning and innovation among all colleagues.

Qualification
We have created a first-class training and development programme and, by starting your career at Azets, in addition to the comprehensive on the job training, you will also be given all the support you need to complete a professional qualification, including college and/or study days, mentoring and a designated buddy.

We offer a range of different qualification pathways at Azets which are determined by the role you are applying for. The qualification that will be undertaken for this position will be the AAT.

Application Requirements
To get the job that you’ll love, you will:

Need the right to work in the UK from your start date
Have achieved Level 4 or above in GCSE English Language & Maths (or equivalent)
Have achieved/be on track to achieve a minimum of 96 UCAS points (or equivalent)
Please note, this role is not suitable if you are studying or already hold an undergraduate and/or masters degree

For us, the personal attributes of each of our employees are what makes us authentic in the marketplace. We look for people who can collaborate with peers but can also bring their own voice to the table. We want people who are dynamic in their approach and respectful of other people’s opinions. We are looking for someone who wants to be more than just a team member, but who wants to join a family of likeminded individuals.

Benefits
At Azets, we understand that whilst job satisfaction and success is important, you should be rewarded for the work you do.

Our benefits include 23 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), Agile & Flexible working, Employee referral bonuses, Lead incentive schemes and much more.

Please note that closing dates vary depending on the position you've applied to. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to this date.

Closing date
The closing date for this position is 30th November 2024.

Please note that closing dates vary depending on the position you've applied to. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to this date.

Audit School/College Leaver (AAT), Gloucester, Autumn 2025
Location: Gloucester
Job Level: Associate
Business Area: Audit & Assurance
Contract Type: Graduate
Ref number: EC01499

About us
At Azets people lie at the heart of what we do. Collaboration and sharing empowers us all to achieve our purpose of making our colleagues, clients and communities lives better every day. With the everchanging economic landscape and advances in technology, there has never been a more exciting time to start a career in accountancy.

As an Azets Trainee, you will be actively supported throughout your Azets career and will learn from the vast expertise held by your colleagues. Whether you're a school or college leaver, a graduate ready to make your mark, or someone seeking an new challenge, Azets is the perfect launchpad for your journey.

We are committed to offering development opportunities to all of our staff, from early stage Trainees through to Senior Partners. As a trainee, you will get the opportunity to pursue a professional qualification specific to the business area you will be working in. We believe in nurturing your potential and setting you on the path to success.

The role
Our Audit and Assurance department is the largest of our service offerings at Azets, with many clients of varying sizes in our portfolio across a broad range of industries. We have developed our audit procedures to be specific and tailored to individual client needs, making this unique to each business that we work with.

The service we provide has a meaningful impact not only on our clients and the communities we serve, but also the wider business and audit community. Our team of audit & assurance specialists undergo continuous training to ensure they are fully up to date with legislation. Our clients are advised by local points of contact who understand each specific business and their needs, whilst benefitting from the backing of a large, national team, with broad experience and expertise.

As an Audit Associate, you will play a key part in the success our Audit and Assurance department. This will begin with you building your auditing skills and knowledge by providing assistance on statutory audits, which will involve applying your expanding technical knowledge to real life scenarios, problem solving, analysing data and presenting your findings.

This role will involve a combination of working in the local office and at client premises. Collaboration with fellow associates, audit seniors, managers and partners will be an essential part of your role. The tasks you can expect to work on with the team will evolve and develop over time, but in the first year of your role you can expect to be involved in the following:

Attending internal audit planning meetings
Working with clients to gain an understanding of their business and internal processes to aid planning for audit testing
Performing regular audit testing to provide assurance over financial statements
Working with clients to obtain specific audit evidence required
Using our audit technologies to analyse client financial information, checking for areas of risk and error
Attending client stock counts to verify physical assets
Reviewing financial statements prepared either by the client or Azets team
Communicating regularly and effectively with clients, both in person and virtually
Sending queries to the clients to provide evidence of these amounts and reconciling them with what should be expected.
Scheduling regular catch-ups with both the client and your team to ensure you are working towards the audit signing deadline.
Communicating with your seniors when there is a difference between evidence provided by the client and data stated on the financial statement provided.

As you advance in your role, you will get the opportunity to mentor new trainees and provide them with high class on-the-job training. Additionally, as your confidence grows so will your project management skills as you work to meet deadlines and budget constraints for clients.

Qualification
We have created a first-class training and development programme and, by starting your career at Azets, in addition to the comprehensive on the job training, you will also be given all the support you need to complete a professional qualification, including college and/or study days, mentoring and a designated buddy.

We offer a range of different qualification pathways at Azets which are determined by the role you are applying for. The qualification that will be undertaken for this position will be the AAT.

Application Requirements
To get the job that you’ll love, you will:

Need the right to work in the UK from your start date
Have achieved Level 4 or above in English and Maths GCSE (or equivalent)
Have achieved/be on track to achieve a minimum of 96 UCAS points (or equivalent)
Please note, this role is not suitable if you are studying or already hold an undergraduate and/or masters degree

For us, the personal attributes of each of our employees are what makes us authentic in the marketplace. We look for people who can collaborate with peers but can also bring their own voice to the table. We want people who are dynamic in their approach and respectful of other people’s opinions. We are looking for someone who wants to be more than just a team member, but who wants to join a family of likeminded individuals.

Benefits
At Azets, we understand that whilst job satisfaction and success is important, you should be rewarded for the work you do.

Our benefits include 23 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), Agile & Flexible working, Employee referral bonuses, Lead incentive schemes and much more.

Closing date
The closing date for this position is 30th November 2024.

Please note that closing dates vary depending on the position you've applied to. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to this date.

Tax School/College Leaver (ATT), Gloucester, Autumn 2025
Location: Gloucester
Job Level: Associate
Business Area: Taxation
Contract Type: School College Leaver
Ref number: EC01420

About us
At Azets people lie at the heart of what we do. Collaboration and sharing empowers us all to achieve our purpose of making our colleagues, clients and communities lives better every day. With the everchanging economic landscape and advances in technology, there has never been a more exciting time to start a career in accountancy.

As an Azets Trainee, you will be actively supported throughout your Azets career and will learn from the vast expertise held by your colleagues. Whether you're a school or college leaver, a graduate ready to make your mark, or someone seeking an new challenge, Azets is the perfect launchpad for your journey.

We are committed to offering development opportunities to all of our staff, from early stage Trainees through to Senior Partners. As a trainee, you will get the opportunity to pursue a professional qualification specific to the business area you will be working in. We believe in nurturing your potential and setting you on the path to success.

The role
This role may include elements of corporation tax, personal tax, or both.

As part of your role as a Corporate Tax Associate, you will predominantly be working in our corporation tax compliance team and will provide assistance as needed on advisory projects. We would expect you to gain experience in dealing with all corporation tax compliance matters on a range of clients, which may include local SME’s, listed businesses, international groups and football clubs. As an integral and valued member of the team you will be expected to form and build long term relationships with existing clients to assist them in achieving their objectives.

As part of your role as a Personal Tax Associate, you will assist with the tax compliance needs of our mixed portfolio of clients. This includes the preparation of Self-Assessment Tax Returns, tax disclosures, Inheritance Tax forms, capital gains compliance and much more. Additionally, you will support our clients through the Personal Tax Advisory Team to provide solutions that create a tax efficient position, which could include tax planning for selling their business, succession planning for the future and much more.

Qualification
We have created a first-class training and development programme and, by starting your career at Azets, in addition to the comprehensive on the job training, you will also be given all the support you need to complete a professional qualification, including college and/or study days, mentoring and a designated buddy.

We offer a range of different qualification pathways at Azets which are determined by the role you are applying for. The qualification that will be undertaken for this position will be the ATT/CTA pathway.

Application Requirements
To get the job that you’ll love, you will:

Need the right to work in the UK from your start date.
Have achieved Level 4 or above in English and Maths GCSE (or equivalent)
Have achieved/be on track to achieve a minimum of 96 UCAS points (or equivalent)
Please note, this role is not suitable if you are studying or already hold an undergraduate and/or masters degree.

For us, the personal attributes of each of our employees are what makes us authentic in the marketplace. We look for people who can collaborate with peers but can also bring their own voice to the table. We want people who are dynamic in their approach and respectful of other people’s opinions. We are looking for someone who wants to be more than just a team member, but who wants to join a family of likeminded individuals.

Benefits
At Azets, we understand that whilst job satisfaction and success is important, you should be rewarded for the work you do.

Our benefits include 23 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), Agile & Flexible working, Employee referral bonuses, Lead incentive schemes and much more.

Closing date
The closing date for this position is 30th November 2024.

Please note that closing dates vary depending on the position you've applied to. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to this date.