Mercer & Hole are chartered accountants. Their Higher Apprenticeships are aimed at anyone who has completed A Levels (or equivalent). They offer specialist entry routes into Audit and Tax disciplines. You will study towards the ATT professional qualification whilst developing and demonstrating a wide range of key business and commercial skills.

The programme will run over two years and on completion, you will be well positioned to move on to complete the ACA qualification.

They are looking for high achievers academically because the work is intellectually demanding and therefore applications are invited only from candidates who have achieved the minimum academic requirement of 280 UCAS points which must comprise of at least three A-levels (excluding General Studies).

They also looking for other qualities outside your academic qualifications. They aim to recruit people who have demonstrated an ability and a willingness to accept responsibility, because you will be expected to do so as a trainee; who possess common sense and good judgment; who are high achievers outside purely academic matters with a range of extra-curricular interests; who have an outgoing personality with an ability to think and do things for themselves, a desire to participate and a ready ability to communicate; and for whom coming to work each day is enjoyable, but who realise that there is more to life than just work.

Experience –Must have a minimum of 112 UCAS points which must comprise of at least 3 A-Levels (excluding general studies)