Trainee Positions

Mentor support
You will have regular catch-up and support meetings with our internal training team and our Training Director throughout your trainee journey. Your mentor will monitor your progress and identify any additional training needs you may have, and will also co-ordinate any additional exam support that you may require. 

Variety
Our trainees are given the opportunity to work with a variety of clients, ranging from the smallest of sole traders and charities to major family-owned companies and not-for-profit organisations.

While we have various opportunities in the following departments,  starting in 2025, based in our Brighton, Worthing, and Crawley offices. They are:

• Tax Trainees in our Tax Services Group where you will gain tax experience by working with our Advisory Team as well as Private Clients based in our Crawley or Worthing office. You will gain relevant experience while studying towards the ATT and CTA.
• Trainee Accountants in our Assurance and Advisory Group who check our clients present the information about their financial position in a way that is true and fair. You will gain relevant experience while studying on an apprenticeship scheme either ACA or ACCA.
• Trainee Accountants in our Business Services Group who help businesses to obtain a thorough understanding of their financial position. You will gain relevant experience while studying on an apprenticeship scheme for either ACA or ACCA.
• Trainee Accountants in our StarBox Services group who help businesses to obtain a thorough understanding of their financial position. You will gain relevant experience while studying on an apprenticeship scheme for either ACA or ACCA.

Each day is different and brings new challenges, whether it be: learning how to do your first accounts preparation exercise or corporation tax computation; preparing projections for a client’s business plan; or meeting a client to discuss their business and give tax planning advice.

Career opportunities
At the end of the training contract, some of our newly qualified accountants will prefer to progress within their current department, while others may move into a different discipline. Whatever the decision, new challenges will lie ahead and we will offer education and support all the way

Employee Benefits

✅ A full-time training contract

✅ Paid study and exam leave

✅ Annual salary review and salary increases after exam passes and when you become part qualified

✅ Apprenticeship to support your training to become ACCA or ACA qualified

✅ Paid overtime or time off in lieu

✅ Competitive holiday entitlement plus bank holidays

✅ Lifestyle Hub with access to great discounts

✅ Employee Assistance Program with additional wellbeing benefits

✅ Employee Referral Program

✅ Flexible and hybrid working

✅ Modern office environment with breakout areas with coffee machines

✅ Paid time off to support the local community as part of our CSR policy

✅ Relaxed Dress Code

✅ Opportunity to join the WPA Cash Plan scheme after 6 months employment with the Firm

✅ Death in Service and associated benefits

Training and Development

We provide an excellent support package and opportunities to develop and progress your skills and knowledge during your training program. 

Our training program will ensure you have the practical, technical and business advisory skills to allow you to excel in your training contract and ensure you are equipped with all the necessary skills needed to be successful in your future career. 

We will contact you to acknowledge your application and we may ask for further information. We will set up initial telephone interviews to discuss your application further as well as ask you to complete some online assessments. If you are successful to the next stage, you will be invited to a face to face group interview with members of the hiring team.

At Carpenter Box, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender, particularly those underrepresented throughout the finance and accounting industry.

Although this role is advertised as full time, we believe that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and can support different ways of working. If you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this. We will consider flexible options for applicants.