Graduate Trainee Chartered Accountant

As a Trainee Chartered Accountant, you will work towards achieving your Chartered Accountancy Qualification with Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) while gaining invaluable, hands-on experience in the workplace. Your tuition fees will be paid and you will balance your professional studies with practical responsibilities, applying what you learn in real time as you contribute to a variety of finance projects and functions. This blend of structured learning and day-to-day work will equip you with the technical expertise, commercial awareness, and professional skills needed for a successful career in accountancy.

About the person:

Applicants must possess, by the closing date for applications:

• An Honours degree (minimum 2.2) or equivalent qualification, in any discipline.
• Experience using Microsoft Office programmes including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Right to work in UK for the duration of the contract.
• Commitment to complete a 3.5-year training contract.
• Commitment to undertake personal study for Chartered Accountancy qualification in line with Chartered Accountants Ireland requirements, making reasonable efforts to complete the qualification within the contract period.
• Ability to commence employment on 6th October 2025.

Further criteria can be found in the Candidate Information.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information on our website.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more on our website.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit our website.

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application.

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