Corporate finance jobs
Be the expert. Do the deals.
Build your experience faster
If you’re looking for a corporate finance role where you can work across the full deal lifecycle and develop a broad range of skills, you’ll find it here. Our 40-strong team advises corporates, owner-managed businesses, banks and private equity clients on acquisitions and disposals, funding and strategic change.
We work as one team on every deal, sharing knowledge, moving quickly and delivering quality outcomes for our clients. You’ll work on a high volume of transactions without narrowing your experience to one part of the process. You’ll gain specialist exposure across M&A, due diligence, valuations, debt advisory, fundraising, tax advisory and deal structuring, with opportunities to work alongside our market-leading renewable energy and infrastructure specialists.
You’ll build client ownership earlier than in many larger, more layered teams. Partners are closely involved in day-to-day work, coaching you, challenging your thinking and helping shape live decisions, so you can develop quickly while feeling fully supported.
You’ll enjoy it here if you’re proactive, commercially curious and motivated by working with others. We know success comes from collaboration and that enjoying your work matters.
More deals. More exposure. More opportunity.
We’re the number one most active financial adviser in the South West, ranked first in Experian’s 2025 UK & Ireland M&A Review for the third year running.
The total value of transactions we advised on during 2025 exceeded £1.8 billion, with deal sizes ranging from around £1 million to approximately half a billion. In the year to March 2026, we achieved record fee income for the third consecutive year.
That success creates opportunities for our people. You’ll gain hands-on experience across a high volume of transactions, work closely with senior colleagues and develop faster through exposure to real client situations and live deals.
From acquisitions and disposals to funding and strategic change, you’ll build experience across a broad range of engagements, helping you develop commercial judgement and technical expertise earlier in your career.
Our current corporate finance job vacancies
There are no jobs currently available in this team.
We’ve always got new job opportunities in the pipeline.
You can email [email protected] outlining your experience and what you’re looking for and we’ll be in touch.
Supportive culture and clear progression
We’re deliberate about giving people client-facing responsibility early on while ensuring experienced colleagues are always available to guide and support. This helps you build commercial judgement, not just technical expertise.
Your progression is shaped by capability, contribution and experience. As your career develops, you can build sector expertise and follow a clear progression path from analyst to senior analyst, assistant manager, manager, senior manager, director and partner.
Recent director-to-partner promotions across M&A and transaction services show that progression is achievable for people who build expertise, develop trusted client relationships and contribute to the continued growth of the team.
As you progress, you’ll move from producing analysis that underpins recommendations to leading client relationships and substantial parts of transactions. Ultimately, you’ll take responsibility for multiple engagements while developing your own network and profile.
You’ll receive regular feedback and development opportunities, supported by technical training, leadership programmes and coaching focused on building strong client relationships.
Our South West locations offer the best of both worlds, combining vibrant city hubs with access to coast and countryside. We work flexibly in a hybrid way, choosing what works best for our clients and teams, then coming together through office days, weekly team calls and quarterly team events for training, collaboration and team building.
Meet the corporate finance team
"I was promoted to director in 2020 and became a partner in 2025, something I am particularly proud of, having progressed from graduate trainee through the ranks."
Matt, Corporate finance partner
“I love the responsibility I am given on projects. I have a lot of autonomy and the team are very open to considering my ideas, even though I’m relatively new to this! I am trusted with challenging projects but also given support when I need it.”
Becky, Corporate finance analystWho this role suits
- Recently qualified accountants who want to move into corporate finance and accelerate client exposure
- Experienced corporate finance professionals who want broader deal involvement and faster progression
- Senior candidates from banks and boutiques who value direct partner access, the opportunity to lead deals and the chance to influence growth and strategy
Corporate finance jobs FAQs
When you take a corporate finance job at PKF Francis Clark the structure of the team enables new joiners to gain a variety of experience across the specialisms before deciding what they want to specialise in later in their career. Some other employers have divisions between their service lines and so you are either in one area or another and can’t gain the same breadth of experience as you can with us.
The corporate finance team is extremely supportive of each other (rather than internally competitive) and will spend significant time helping others to develop. This results in a strong base to their transactional career and fast career progression. There is a demonstratable track record of recruiting people in and them progressing through to partnership – and even to the top of the firm.
Perhaps the best evidence of what it is actually like working in corporate finance at PKF Francis Clark, is that we have had no senior (at manager level or above) leave us for nearly a decade, and very few other leavers. We also attracted joiners from all of the Big 4 firms as well as mid-tier firms such as BDO and Mazars in recent years.
The training for our corporate finance jobs is predominantly carried out on the job, with specific internal ‘best practice’ training sessions and externally provided interpersonal skills training. Colleagues can also obtain the ICAEW’s Corporate Finance qualification.
We attend conferences including global PKF group meetings (European, China, US etc). Career development opportunities are unlimited and as it’s a relatively new team with significant market growth opportunities and many opportunities for progression.
Responsibility comes early, but you’re never left to figure it out alone. You’ll gain broad exposure across the deal lifecycle and multiple service lines, with progression driven by capability and experience rather than time served.
You’ll have direct, day-to-day access to partners who remain actively involved in client work and in developing the people around them. Combined with a collaborative culture that’s been recognised by Great Place to Work, it creates an environment where ambitious people can develop quickly, take on meaningful responsibility and build rewarding long-term careers.
Corporate finance life at PKF Francis Clark
