Think Big and Thrive

Forget the clichés and think about a career in business where you will play a part in helping our clients do more, invest more and achieve more. And at the same time we’ll help you develop your abilities and your career.

If you have drive, ambition and commitment, you’ll feel at home at BKL.

It doesn’t matter where you’ve come from; it’s all about where you’re heading and what you want to achieve.

Whether you join us from school or from university, we will train you.

We work closely with Kaplan, whose training encompasses leading online learning technologies, award-winning study materials and highly experienced tutors.

It doesn’t matter whether you join us from school or from university: we will train you. Neither is the subject of your studies important; what matters to us is that you are bright, professional and a clear communicator.

We’ll provide structured development on audit, accounts and tax, systems training and IT delivered by our own experts and the best external practitioners. We work closely with Kaplan, whose training encompasses leading online learning technologies, award-winning study materials and highly experienced tutors.

You’ll develop your wider interpersonal and professional skills again with internal and external providers. After you’ve qualified, we’ll continue to support your growth through additional professional qualifications, new development programmes, a range of work opportunities and careers guidance.

To give you a flavour of what you can expect, we’ve developed two interactive pathways. We like to be flexible and so are the routes you can take but they will give you a good idea about the roads to qualification, and the support you’ll get from Kaplan along the way:
The two maps (AAT Apprentice Pathway and ICAEW Pathway)

AAT Apprentice Pathway

Professional Accountant ICAEW Pathway

As well as working with people who are proud to be here, you’ll also get to work with exciting, innovative clients who trust us to help them grow, in the UK and internationally. If you’re starting out as a trainee, you will be in touch with clients early on in your career.
There’s so much variety, including a few names and brands you may have heard of:

• Terry’s Chocolate
• Creative Diversity Network
• nChain and a growing number of blockchain, crypto and other fintech businesses
• Hush Homewear
• Fusion Students
• Palmer’s
• Bridge Theatre
• Claude Littner, who let us interview him!

In a truly inclusive culture, initiative comes not just from senior leaders but from everyone at BKL. Mosaic, our impact forum, help us to celebrate our diversity and support our wellbeing through activities such as our annual multicultural lunch.

As well as learning from each other at BKL, other organisations are with us on our inclusion journey. We’ve been working with social mobility charity LTSB (Leadership Through Sport and Business) since they were founded in 2012.

External recognition helps us to know that we’re on the right track, so we were proud to be the Taxation Awards 2023 winner for Best Employer in Tax.