We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 40 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.
We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.
Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.
Want to join our challenger firm? Read on.
Our focus on SME and small-cap listed clients means variety and learning for our team. We offer early exposure to CFOs and CEOs where you can be involved in interesting conversations and complex issues; you're not just a small cog in an enormous machine. You’ll have the opportunity to work across audits from start to finish, and make a real impact on clients whilst building strong technical knowledge across all areas and developing project and client leadership skills. All in a positive, supportive and diverse team.
The role
As a Senior Associate in Audit, you’ll be on the ground, delivering audits for a large variety of companies.
- You’ll complete a range of audit assignments across client portfolios, working with audit managers and directors.
- You’ll regularly work both on and off-site client premises as part of an audit team
- Working with managers and a partner, you’ll supervise and train more junior team members, ensuring that they understand the objectives of the work set, and how it fits into the overall client work
- You’ll plan audit assignments and financial statement
Requirements
Who you are
On top of being ACA or ACCA qualified, you’ll…
- Have outstanding communication and influencing skills
- Be comfortable working with multiple stakeholders at all levels
- Have excellent project management skills and be able to ensure that multiple projects are successfully delivered without drama
- Be able to build excellent relationships with people, often resulting in engaged teams and additional client work
- Value feedback and enjoy creating an environment where people are always learning and improving
- Be happy in a hybrid-working environment, and work effectively both remotely and in the office
Your career with Gravita
When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.
We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.
Benefits
At Gravita, we put people first. To ensure your wellbeing inside and outside of work, we regularly review and refresh our policies based on what matters most to our team. When you join Gravita you can expect:
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- 5% Employer pension contribution
- Enhanced parental and family leave
- Healthshield, reimbursing up to 100% of your everyday healthcare costs
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced sick leave
- Extensive learning and development support including Continuing Professional Development (CPD) allowance
- Reimbursement of one professional subscription per year
- Season ticket loan
- Perkbox
- Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in the office) and flexible starting/finishing hours
Our Values
We are ambitious
Determined and armed with a can-do attitude, we aim to achieve big things. We innovate, challenge the status quo and champion forward-thinking.
We value relationships
People are the core of our business. We build relationships rooted in integrity, commitment and trust to strengthen our sense of community.
We care deeply
We are brimming with expertise and always eager to do our best work. We balance this by ensuring we are conscientious, considerate and empathetic to our colleagues and clients alike.
We communicate clearly
Communicating with respect and positivity is paramount. We encourage expectations to be clearly outlined and feedback to be constructive and actionable so we’re all on the same page.
We get things done
We work at pace but ensure we always do things the right way, believing that momentum and precision can work in harmony.
The process:
We’ve developed an open and inclusive interview process so you know exactly what to expect.
Our 3 step interview process:
Our internal talent team reviews all applications and will reach out to those who best fit the role
You’ll have at least two interviews with people from your prospective team so you can get to know each other and talk about your experience
If the interviews go well, there may be a task element, depending on the role you’re applying for – this is your chance to prove your skills
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Gravita we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You still may be the perfect candidate – and if not, there may be other roles you’d be suitable for.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £47,976.00-£51,265.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Flexible Language Requirement:
- English not required
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (required)
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Experience:
- accounting (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
