The changing face of industry.
How accountancy jobs in Carlisle have changed over the years as accountancy andfinance jobs Carlisle move from industry to technology?
Carlisle has historically been a place of border trade; the city sits at the point where the three rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril meet and is only 10 miles from the Scottish border. Our recruitment agency in Cumbria is only half an hour from Kendal and people are always surprised in the south how close we are the borders and to Glasgow.
This border trade had brought with it many finance and accountancy jobs in industries that naturally traded goods, fishing, agriculture and tangible skills such as dry stone walling (see our article on harridans wall country) and these accountancy vacancies in Carlisle, be that in payroll, credit control or indeed audit jobs in Carlisle tended to focus on these industries. At the time of writing this article, May 2009, a major manufacturer are looking to fill a finance director vacancy in Carlisle and are still in FMCG but the pattern of recruitment and industry is changing.
There are now roughly 20 web design and development companies in Carlisle alone and around a further 20 in Cumbria, particularly in Windermere, Barrow in Furness and the South Lakes. Keswick also has some excellent graphic design firms and other modern, technology based firms. The issue for traditional accountancy recruitment in Carlisle is that these companies do not generate finance jobs in Carlisle in the normal way. In almost every instance they will use the services of a chartered accountant. This does generate charteredaccountancy vacancies in Carlisle and audit jobs in Carlisle are in demand.
The other impact is the CIMA part qualified jobs in Carlisle (as well as part qualified accountancy vacancies generally) have been hard hit but the chartered accountants will always be keen to hear from someone looking for a newly qualified aca job in Carlisle or the borders.
What we are also seeing is that those that are qualified by experience looking for jobs in Carlisle struggle as the vacancies lay with chartered accountancy practices and tend to be audit jobs or internal audit jobs in Carlisle. Leaving the QBE’s struggling.