Graduate Trainee Accountant

Company: ACCA Careers
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Location: Huddersfield
Job Description:

Recruitment Approach

We adopt a “name blind” approach to short‑listing. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made – this also applies to any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

Organization

Kirklees

Directorate

Public Health and Corporate Resources

Service Area

Finance

Hours

37

Number of Jobs

2

Location(s)

Huddersfield and surrounding areas

Position Type

Permanent

Grade

6 to 10

Salary

£26,403 – £40,777 (Pay award pending)

Role

Kirklees Council is an organisation with an annual gross controllable budget of approximately £1 billion. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a Finance team with a wealth of experience on a broad range of areas including:

  • Strategic and directorate financial planning and advice, support to individual budget holders with budget preparation and monitoring, provision of the Council’s principal accounting systems, and preparation of the Council’s statutory accounts.
  • Treasury management (ensuring that borrowing costs are kept to a minimum whilst earning interest from cash balances).
  • Internal Audit (providing the Council with assurance that our internal financial and business procedures and processes are robust and provide a sound level of control).

Benefits

We want to help you get the work‑life balance right, offering flexible working and options for home‑based working where we can.

Qualifications

You will hold a degree at 2.1 or above and have excellent A level results (equivalent of 3 × Grade B). You will need to be committed to working within a public sector environment and delivering a high‑quality Accountancy / Internal Audit service. You will be able to evaluate financial and management information quickly and accurately, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong literacy and numeracy skills, be comfortable with a range of IT packages/systems and be willing to study over an extended period of time.

Employment Details

Appointment will be at the bottom of the salary scale with annual progression upon exam success and satisfactory performance within the workplace.

EEO Statement

We know there is a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. If you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description, please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email or phone. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Closing Date

31 May 2026, 11:55 PM

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Posted: June 5th, 2026