2027 Trainee Chartered Accountant Apprenticeship

Kick-start your career with one of the largest independent accountancy firms in the North West. As a Trainee at RPG, you will gain hands-on experience working with a wide range of clients while studying towards your qualifications. You will work alongside experienced professionals and build the foundations for a rewarding career.

What you will do

• Work towards a structured professional development plan.
• Support the preparation of financial statements and management accounts.
• Assist with audit assignments, including fieldwork and documentation.
• Communicate with clients to obtain information and answer queries.
• Develop strong client relationships and provide excellent service.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across different service lines.
• Gain experience of accounting, audit, taxation and wider business matters.
• Maintain accurate working papers and engagement documentation.
• Support engagement teams with planning, execution and completion of assignments.
• Develop commercial awareness and technical accounting knowledge.

Training

You will complete a structured apprenticeship programme combining practical workplace experience with professional study. Training is delivered by First Intuition and includes progression towards the ICAEW ACA qualification. Depending on your educational background and team placement, you may first complete the AAT Level 4 qualification before progressing to ACA studies. You will receive paid study leave, dedicated tuition support and ongoing mentoring throughout your development.

After the apprenticeship

Successful apprentices will have the opportunity to progress their career within RPG Chartered Accountants. You will continue developing professional expertise, work towards becoming a qualified Chartered Accountant and benefit from long-term career progression opportunities within a growing Top 100 accountancy firm.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE, English Language (grade 6/B)
• Essential: GCSE, Mathematics (grade 6/B)
• Essential: UCAS Points, UCAS Points (grade 120 Minimum)

Things to consider

Benefits

• Fully funded professional qualifications
• Paid study leave
• Pension scheme
• Flexible benefits package
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Free parking (rota basis)
• Free use of car park out of office hours and during the weekend
• Death in service cover
• Ongoing technical and professional training
• Increasing holiday entitlement with service

About the employer

RPG Chartered Accountants is the largest independent firm of chartered accountants based in Manchester, with a second office located in North Wales. Our team of over 120 people provides a wide breadth of support to our corporate and personal clients with services including accountancy, audit, tax, payroll, business recovery, corporate finance, company secretarial and financial planning.

Our clients range in size from small enterprises with turnovers of £50,000 to large companies exceeding £900 million. Our clients operate across a wide variety of sectors, and some of the work we carry out is highly specialist. Notably, RPG is one of only 35 accountancy firms in the UK (as of October 2026) regulated to carry out Public Interest Entity (PIE) audits. This accreditation enables us to audit FTSE and AIM-listed companies, as well as regulated entities such as Friendly Societies.

It is important for our clients that we can access professional advice all around the world. We are proud to be a member of DFK International which is a global association of accounting firms working closely together across 430 offices in over 85 countries, with some currently assisting a number of our clients who have overseas interests.

As a UK top 100 accountancy firm, we have ambitions and plans for continued growth, with our people at the heart of everything we do.

Taking the career path of a Chartered Accountant involves continuous learning so we strive to support all of our people with comprehensive training which includes understanding the wider business issues affecting our clients and improving your commercial awareness. You will also have your own personal development plan which will enable you to achieve your long-term ambitions. We pride ourselves on understanding the needs of our staff and value our team having a healthy work life balance.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Accountancy or taxation professional (level 7), Legal, finance and accounting
• Apprenticeship level: Degree (level 7)
• Training provider: FIRST INTUITION LIMITED
• Expected duration: 4 Years
• Hours: 35 hours a week. Working week: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week. We offer flexi-time to start between 8am and 10am and finish between 4pm and 6pm.
• Start date: 6 September 2027
• Positions available: 4
• Wage: Competitive