ACA Trainee job in London

BWB’s Advisory & Impact department is seeking a motivated ACA trainee with a strong focus on social impact and interest in working with the third sector.
Bates Wells Braithwaite is a professional services consultancy, combining a top legal practice with services in impact measurement, outcomes-based planning and strategy, and financial services regulatory compliance. The firm works with a wide range of clients, large and small, across a variety of sectors – from established businesses, charities and social enterprises and public bodies to innovative start-ups and high-profile individuals. It is also a certified B-Corporation, an accreditation we have earnt by meeting rigorous standards of social and environment performance, accountability and transparency.
The Advisory & Impact department works across four main practice areas; impact management (social impact and evaluation), transactions (investment readiness, collaboration and acquisitions), risk and investigation (due diligence, risk and forensic accounting) and strategy (strategic insight and organisational effectiveness). As an analyst you will work on projects across all four practice areas, learning under the guidance of the practice managers and alongside other analysts.
You will be enrolled on a three year training contract and study alongside your work towards becoming ACA qualified (as a chartered accountant). BWB will pay for your study and professional exams and you will receive paid study leave to attend tuition courses and sit examinations, in addition to your annual leave.
The Advisory & Impact department was founded by Jim Clifford OBE in 2014 and became the first non-legal department within BWB. The team has grown from an initial four to twelve people and is looking to continue its expansion with further recruitment.
Person Specification:

Personal skills

• Able to take the initiative and work independently
• Enquiring and able to embrace new approaches
• Excellent communicator
• Problem solver
• Good team player
• Personable and confident, able to talk to people from different levels of an organisation

Values

• As a values driven organisation, we need someone who understands and lives our values
• Can demonstrate commitment to and interest in charitable causes or social agendas

Technical ability

• Highly numerate and literate
• Able to write concisely and clearly
• Interest in developing Excel skills
• Quick learner
• Able to apply existing skills to new projects or tasks

 To apply, please submit  your CV and a covering letter that responds to the following 2 points:

1) Please give an example of where you have used your initiative to provide a solution to a problem you have encountered.

2) Please identify how your values will fit with our purpose and values.