ACCA has teamed up with UK Charity Migrant Leaders to help find and develop the next generation of talent for the accountancy profession.
ACCA UK wants to encourage applications from across the accountancy sector to apply to the Migrant Leaders innovative programme.
Migrant Leaders inspires and develops disadvantaged young people across the UK to broaden their horizons and capture opportunities beyond their aspirations, and provide bespoke support to give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to enter and take on leadership roles in major public and private sector organisations.
CEO and founder of the charity, Elham Fardad, is an ACCA member and says: “In the UK, disadvantaged graduates earn half as much as privileged peers in their first job. It’s time we turn education into tangible career success and progression by levelling the playing field. I am immensely proud to be part of the partnership between Migrant Leaders and ACCA UK, an organisation that has certainly played a key role in my own finance and leadership career.”
Applicants for the programme must be aged 16-25 and meet other eligibility criteria including currently or previously being in state education, and either they or at least one of your parents must have migrated to the UK, or as a non-migrant they must be from a disadvantaged background of any ethnicity.
