Jobs at Ballards LLP

Leads the Private Client and Trust Services team, overseeing personal and trust tax compliance, reviewing returns, and delivering advice on trusts, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, offshore trusts, and international matters. Manages client relationships, HMRC liaison, workflow, billing, quality, recruitment, coaching, and team development. Supports business development, technical marketing, and department growth while maintaining strong utilisation and recovery performance.

Leads financial due diligence engagements from planning through completion, overseeing analysis, reporting, client relationships, project delivery, and quality standards. Manages multiple transactions, mentors junior team members, supports business development, and contributes to corporate finance and lead advisory assignments, particularly across healthcare, education, and childcare sectors.

Supports statutory external audits for UK clients, including planning, fieldwork, testing, documentation, risk identification, evidence gathering, financial information review, and completion procedures. The role involves client communication, workload management, maintaining accurate working papers, attending client sites and stocktakes, supporting audit seniors and managers, and progressing toward ACA, ACCA, or an equivalent professional accountancy qualification.

Lead statutory audit engagements for UK clients from planning through completion, including risk assessment, fieldwork, financial statement review, documentation, and client communication. Coordinate assignments, supervise and coach junior staff, manage deadlines and budgets, escalate technical issues, and ensure compliance with UK auditing and financial reporting requirements. The role also supports quality improvement, professional development, and occasional business development activities.

Conduct and coordinate external audits for UK SMEs, groups, and larger companies. Responsibilities include audit planning, fieldwork, testing, completion, working-paper maintenance, issue escalation, quality compliance, team coordination, client communication, and mentoring junior auditors. The role supports UK-based engagement teams while working remotely from South Africa.

Prepare statutory year-end accounts, corporation and personal tax returns, bookkeeping, VAT returns, and management accounts for a varied client portfolio. Liaise with clients, maintain accurate working papers, support compliance deadlines, review junior colleagues’ work, and assist with coaching and portfolio management. The role requires accountancy practice experience and offers progression for ACA, ACCA, AAT-qualified, or experienced professionals.

Manage corporate tax compliance and advisory work for UK and international groups, including reorganisations, transactions, share schemes, valuations, restructuring, and cross-border tax matters. Liaise with HMRC and external stakeholders, research complex legislation, review junior staff work, mentor team members, manage deadlines, support business development, and build strong client relationships.

Supports year-end accounts, working papers, corporation and personal tax, bookkeeping, and VAT for client portfolios. The apprentice works with colleagues and clients to gather information, resolve routine queries, meet deadlines, and develop accountancy, technical, commercial, and communication skills through fully funded professional training.

Graduate tax associate supporting corporate tax compliance, computations, returns, technical research, client and HMRC communications, and advisory work involving transactions and reorganisations. The role provides real client exposure and fully funded ATT/CTA training over a three-year programme. Candidates should have or be pursuing a minimum 2:1 degree, with strong analytical ability, attention to detail, communication skills, curiosity, and willingness to learn.

One-year audit placement with Ballards involving live client assignments, audit testing, financial information review, risk and controls assessment, and client relationship building. Students will receive structured training, mentoring, and hands-on responsibility while developing technical and commercial understanding. Applicants should be analytical, curious, detail-oriented, communicative, and studying toward a degree with a placement year and expected minimum 2:1. Strong performers may receive a permanent return offer.

Supports live corporate finance transactions, including financial analysis, due diligence, valuation, modelling, working capital, and deal execution. Prepares reports, presentations, and transaction materials while working with clients and management teams. The three-year graduate programme provides fully funded ACA training, mentoring, and structured development. Applicants need or be pursuing a minimum 2:1 degree and demonstrate strong numerical, analytical, communication, and attention-to-detail skills.

Join Ballards’ three-year graduate audit programme, completing live audit assignments across varied clients while working toward a fully funded ACA qualification. Responsibilities include reviewing financial information, assessing risks and controls, performing audit testing, investigating underlying figures, and building client relationships. The role offers structured training, mentoring, hybrid working, and progressive responsibility. Applicants should be graduates achieving or holding at least a 2:1 degree, with analytical ability, attention to detail, communication skills, numerical interest, and willingness to learn.

Join Ballards’ three-year graduate programme supporting private client tax matters for individuals and trusts. Prepare Self Assessment returns, learn Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax, assist with compliance and advisory work, and build client relationships. The role includes fully funded professional tax training, mentoring, hybrid working and structured career development toward becoming a qualified tax adviser.

Graduate training programme offering pathways in audit, private client tax, corporate finance, and corporate tax. Graduates gain real client experience, structured professional study, mentorship, and fully funded professional qualification support. The role requires curiosity, ambition, interpersonal skills, willingness to learn, and a minimum 2:1 degree in any discipline. Positions are based in Worcester, Droitwich, or Birmingham, with flexible hybrid working.

Manage a portfolio of owner-managed business clients within an outsourced accounts team. Responsibilities include preparing management accounts, month-end journals, VAT returns, bookkeeping, reconciliations, and payroll-related accounting information. The role requires managing competing deadlines, maintaining client relationships, resolving queries, supporting Xero users, and providing training. The Client Lead will proactively manage expectations, coordinate client information, and support or review junior colleagues.