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Our vision: Shaping your future through insight and innovation

Our values

Shaping your future through insight and innovation. That’s our vision. Along with our values it guides our work and underpins everything we do:

  • Supportive Going out of our way to help others and make them feel valued

  • Respectful Treating others the way they would like to be treated

  • Adaptable Being open to and ready for change. Embracing new opportunities, processes and technology

  • Ambitious Consistently looking to improve. Going the extra mile to help colleagues and clients achieve their goals

  • Integrity Doing the right thing in all circumstances

Why work for us?

Our people are the main reason why our colleagues enjoy working here. We nurture a strong sense of belonging with an open, caring team culture, so that everyone feels valued.

We’re a growing, 980+ strong team. This means we have the breadth of expertise to help our clients achieve their goals, with all the opportunities for career progression that come with this. If you join us, we’ll help you shape your career path and nurture the professional and personal skills you’ll need to succeed.

We’ll always do our best by our people, so they can always do the best for our clients. Sounds good? It is, that’s why we’ve been named one of the UK’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and ranked on the Top 100 Apprenticeships list from the Department of Education.


To see more from our people check out our careers pages on Facebook or Instagram.

 

PKF Francis Clark in numbers

Stat 980+

employees

Stat 20K+

clients

Stat 9

offices

Stat £60m+

annual turnover

The largest independent chartered accountancy firm in South West England. Established in 1919.

Global reach as part of PKF International – ranked as the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK by Accountancy Age. 

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Hybrid working

Our commitment to hybrid work means that our people have the option to work in any of our offices at any time, and to spend some time working at home (or wherever they want to work!).

The exact details of what hybrid working looks like vary from person to person, depending on the role they do.

History. Our story so far.

We’ve come a long way since our humble beginnings over a century ago when Francis S Clark, or Frank to his colleagues and friends, founded an accountancy practice in Newton Abbot, Devon.

We’ve grown into a dynamic and progressive firm, with more than 980 employees. Our people are based at nine offices across the South of England, and sometimes at home as we’ve embraced hybrid working.

Here are a few milestones along the way…

Our success is founded on a culture of mutual respect and support, empowering our people to do their best work. We work well together, we support each other and we celebrate individual and team successes, giving us the confidence we need to achieve goals, whether that’s for our clients, our people, communities or the firm.

We’ve been around for over a century because we’re continuously developing what we do and how we do it. The world is changing and we’re ready for the opportunities that brings. We have a strategic plan to take us forward, one that prioritises outstanding client service, great employee experience and re-engineering our processes in line with technological change.

Over the years we’ve evolved and adapted in the face of many challenges and opportunities, always putting client service and developing our people at the heart of everything we do.

We’re ambitious for our clients and for our people – that’s who we are, that’s who we’ve always been.

  • 1919 – Frank Clark establishes Francis S Clark & Co in Newton Abbot

  • 1946 – The practice merges with Stanley Kennard accountants and Frank retires

  • 1955 – Our first office in Exeter opens

  • 1968 – The firm expands into Torquay with the acquisition of a local firm of accountants

  • 1983 – Our Plymouth office opens

  • 2002 – Francis Clark Financial Planning launches

  • 2006 – Merger with Whites creates our Taunton office

  • 2007 – Merger with Martin & Co creates our Salisbury office

  • 2011 – Merger with Winter Rule creates our Truro office

  • 2016 – Merger with Princecroft Willis creates our Poole office and we join PKF International, becoming PKF Francis Clark

  • 2019 – Our Bristol office opens, as the firm celebrates its centenary

  • 2022 – Our Southampton office opens

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