Recruitment

Achieve YOUR potential with RPG Chartered Accountants

RPG is a well-established, independent firm of chartered accountants based in central Manchester. Our team of 85 people in Manchester provide accountancy services to a wide portfolio of businesses clients across a range of sectors; we also have a team of 20 in St Asaph in North Wales providing financial planning and payroll services. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our foremost objective is for all our colleagues to achieve their potential.

More about RPG

We act for a wide variety of businesses across a range of sectors with turnovers ranging from £50,000 to over £600 million. Each business is unique and faces different challenges, and we pride ourselves on providing them with commercially focused advice. Our range of expertise gives us confidence in our ability to deliver a great service to our clients.

As a UK top 100 accountancy firm, we have ambitions and plans for continued growth. We offer a breadth of client services across our Business Service Group (accounts, bookkeeping, management accounts, digital accountancy), Audit, Tax and Payroll, Business Recovery & Insolvency and Corporate Finance & Forensic Accounting, and well as Chartered Financial Planning for individuals and businesses. Our client facing teams are supported by dedicated operations, people management, finance and marketing teams.

Technology is a key area of development for us. We are currently going through an extensive and ambitious technological transformation programme. This will enable us to truly empower our people.

Working at RPG

RPG Chartered Accountants provide a friendly and professional working environment where we love to do an excellent job and going above-and-beyond the call of duty is second nature to us. A good work-life balance, alongside supporting personal development, are at the centre of our ethos.

The training and development of our team is fundamental to us. We fully support our team members who are following ACA and ACCA training programmes, and personal development plans are created for each team member as part of the annual appraisal process. These focus on the individual’s specific needs, career aspirations and goals; we always encourage and support progression within the Firm. We also host informal training sessions: ‘Learning Lunches: Really Positive Growth’,” with internal and guest speakers covering topical issues and sector specific news and updates. These sessions, along with an individual’s personal development plan, help to encourage team members to become commercially focused business advisers. Technology is key to the firm’s development so full tech training and support are also provided.

Having fun is also central to our ethos! We keep in touch across both offices through monthly social calls on Teams and we have social events throughout the year. Our main social event is the RPG Grand Day Out, which in 2022 and 2023 we spent the day at Haydock Park Races. In 2024 we took part in a Medieval Mayhem event at Ruthin Castle in North Wales which was brilliant fun! See more here. We also have an annual Away Day training session which incorporates team building.

The RPG social committee organises regular events throughout the year including socials – you can see photos of these on the RPG Instagram account – and frequent activities such as pumpkin carving for Halloween and egg decorating at Easter.

RPG encourage colleagues to explore activities that can be set up firmwide as we feel that it promotes team work. In January 2024, the RPG Netball team was set up to play in the Powerplay Netball Manchester League and they have been competing every Tuesday since. This enables our people to take part in a physical activity, demonstrating their determination and team spirit.

Well-being is of the utmost importance to us. We have access to the MyStrength and WeCare app which provide a range of services, as part of our employment package, as well as internal counselling and support. Additionally, we host “Tea and Talk” events every month as well as regular lunchtime walks. During our “Tea and Talk” sessions, we invite our people to take part in a wellbeing workshop which is a great opportunity to take their mind off work, have some fun and express their creativity – you can see photos on the RPG Instagram account.

We encourage colleagues to come into the office every day and most people have their own dedicated desk (the only occasional exception being the audit team who are often visiting clients). Home working is allowed but everyone is expected to be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week unless they are with clients.

Our team is encouraged to ‘dress for their day’ which generally means casual clothing can be worn for office days, but more formal office attire is required when seeing clients in the office or visiting their premises.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service, and following practices which are free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We actively support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and make sure that our colleagues feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect. We value people as individuals with diverse opinions, cultures, lifestyles, and circumstances.

You will find details of our current vacancies in the column to the left, however even if we don’t have a vacancy right now, please get in touch, we are always looking for great people to join us. So please send us your CV and covering letter to recruitment@rpg.co.uk.