Accountancy and Finance

Accounting and finance could give you the grounding for a career in accountancy, finance, banking, insurance, the public sector or general management.

ELP programs are offered by universities or pathway institutions to assist students in achieving the language proficiency required for academic studies. You can get admitted to your course with a lower language requirement if you do an ELP program.

The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the uk or abroad. our placement office works with national and international employers to ensure excellent work experience opportunities are available to you on placement courses as well as giving advice in areas such as interview skills and preparing cvs and covering letters. previous placement providers have included accountancy cloud, capita:yorkshire bank, certis accountants, cummins turbo technologies, dhl, accountancy, jones cooper limited, l’oreal, nhs, northern rail, redhead international, redmayne bentley stockbrokers, rolls royce, sia fibral, sigma chartered accountants and tax advisors, smart accounts and tax, total uk lubricants, ups, vokerrail, walker and sutcliffe chartered accountants, west yorkshire accountancy services and wine and co.

• Type: Optional

• Duration: 12 Months

• Fees: Contact us for up-to-date information

Previous graduates from this course have gone in to roles such as operations analyst, finance manager, assistant fund accountant, assistant accountant as well as entering into professional accountancy training contracts with companies such as pwc, lloyds banking group, ge capital, kpmg, the department for work and pensions, jaguar land rover, bonmarche, depuy international, stagecoach, russell smith chartered accountants and bradford nhs trust, to name but a few.**

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in England have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. University of Huddersfield has partnerships with the following companies: