Business Placement, External Audit in London

Role: Associate - Business Placement (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Location: Guernsey

Line of Service: External Audit

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5

PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff.

If you’re taking a four-year degree course which has a sandwich element to it, a business placement at PwC CI is the perfect way to gain valuable industry experience during your penultimate year at university.

Our training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You’ll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the network, and throughout your career.

What you’ll do:

• Provide market leading audit services to a diverse range of clients including multinational companies, start-ups, family businesses, governments, and private individuals.
• Work within financial services covering industries such as banking, capital markets, private equity, real estate, insurance, and consumer finance.
• Help organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business.
• Study towards your professional Chartered Accounting qualification with the advantage of the work experience counting towards the time experience requirement.
• Split your time between working at client premises, working in the office, and studying for your professional exams.

Who is this vacancy for and what you’ll need:

• Available only to students on four-year degree programmes that feature a sandwich placement element.
• Achieved 96 UCAS points and be on track for at least a 2.1 result in your degree.

Do you need a Work Permit?

Due to immigration restrictions in Jersey and Guernsey, the Channel Islands firm is unable to consider trainee candidates who require work permits.

When to apply:

To avoid disappointment, we recommend applying as early as you can as applications for this role may close early should we receive a high volume of interest.

The skills we look for in our people:

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional.

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.

Diversity:

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.