Working in Accounting & Finance

Accountants are financial specialists, and all commercial businesses and public sector organisations need people with a good understanding of and control over finances. This is the purpose of accountancy, which is concerned with all aspects of recording, reporting and analysing financial information such as income and expenditure, tax, profit and loss. Career opportunities range from clerical work with figures, to accounting technicians and chartered accountants. Come to our webinar to find out about the full scope of accounting opportunities, including:

The education and training pathways into accounting careers including apprenticeships, college courses, university and distance learning.

Where accounting staff work – you will be amazed at the wide range of employers who need people with accounting skills.

Labour market information on accounting and finance in the West Midlands region including up to date vacancy numbers and an insight into the major recruiters of people with accounting skills.

Webinars are delivered via Microsoft Teams

For new customers, we recommend that you have an appointment with a National Careers Service adviser before the webinar takes place.

In the appointment the careers adviser will help you to:

• explore different careers and options
• review your strengths, skills and develop your career goals
• plan your next steps
• make the best use of high-quality, career-related tools
• understand the local job market
• access learning, training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, including making applications
• develop your CV, interview skills and job searching techniques
• implement your plan of action.

By giving us your personal information you are consenting to be contacted by telephone or email by the National Careers Service to arrange an appointment with a careers adviser prior to the webinar.

Customers' information is collected so that the Department for Education can carry out its functions, information will be handled in accordance with the principles and laws of data protection and at no time will it be used for purposes that are not related to the delivery of careers advice by the National Careers Service. For further details of how customer data is used, please view the privacy policy on the National Careers Service website; https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/help/privacy-andcookies (or at bit.ly/NcsPrivacy2)

What else do I need to know?

There may be other participants in the session, so you must take care not to reveal any of your personal data at any time. Our recommendation is that you do not supply, verbally or on screen, your full name, email address, telephone number or any other information which could identify you to other participants on the call. You must not share such data, to safeguard your interests and so that you do not make yourself vulnerable to any malicious activity. Some presentations may be recorded for training purposes.