Audit Graduate Trainee with Leading Firm

Job title:

Audit Graduate Trainee with Leading Firm

Company

Gradfuel

Job description

Job Description:

We are looking for passionate graduates to join our Auditing team.

We have diverse opportunities for you to embark on a fulfilling journey in a firm that deeply cares about your ambitions. Our business serves as a catalyst for swift and consistent career progression, renowned for entrusting ambitious individuals with early responsibility and exposure. If you enjoy engaging with diverse groups, working with numbers, and have a curiosity for business, this is an excellent opportunity for you

About the role:

We believe that audit is pivotal to the economic foundations of a fair and prosperous world. Joining our Audit Service Line means becoming part of a dedicated team of around 1,400 professionals committed to quality, technical excellence, and daily value addition to our clients. Our auditors play a crucial role in supporting the public interest, building sustainable businesses, and contributing to the benefit of society as a whole.

As an Audit Graduate Trainee, you will work with various audited entities, gaining a strong understanding of their business, preparing professional audit documents, and developing expertise in financial statements. The role involves collaboration within highly engaged teams, delivering high-quality audits in line with expectations and deadlines.

Your journey over the three-year training contract is structured as follows:

First Year:

• Work with various audited entities, building a strong understanding of their business.
• Learn to prepare professional audit documents in line with our audit methodology.
• Develop a thorough understanding of financial statements.
• Obtain relevant information from key stakeholders while building effective relationships.

Second Year:

• Build and develop audit skills in increasingly complex and technical areas.
• Take ownership of sections allocated in an audit file.
• Self-review your work, ensuring minimal review points are raised by managers.
• Coach and support less experienced team members.

Final Year:

• Take on significantly more responsibility, potentially leading a technical area or a team.
• Ensure the entire audit file is completed, managing deadlines, team members, budgets, and presenting in both team and audited entities meetings.

Possible Audit areas

IT External Audit :

If you join our IT External Audit function, you will form part of an innovative, dynamic, and expanding national team. We work with both UK businesses and Global companies – it’s a fantastic way to understand the important aspects of business and markets. In this team you will gain experience across a variety of sectors, such as:

• Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, and Investment
• Corporates/Private Sector/Industry & Services
• Retail and Consumer products organisations
• Central and Local Government

Public Sector:

We offer a world-class audit experience with deep, specialist knowledge of the Public sector. If you join Public Sector Audit, you will be part of a brilliant team that provides distinctive audit and advisory services, and works with:

• Central government bodies;
• Local government bodies including Councils, police and fire bodies; and
• NHS Trusts and Integrated Commissioning Boards.

Privately-Owned Business:

We passionately support privately owned businesses in achieving their goals. In the UK, we work with over 13,000, family-owned, private equity backed and privately owned businesses. If you join Privately-Owned Business, you will be part of a dynamic team whose client base covers the full range of businesses from entrepreneurial startups to multi hundred million pound turnover international groups.

Social Sector:

If you join Social Sector Audit, you will be part of a brilliant team that provides distinctive audit and advisory services, and works with:

• Educational Institutions, such as Universities, Colleges and large multi-academy trusts;
• Housing Associations
• Charities

Requirements:

On track to receive or have obtained a 2.2 or above in a relevant degree

• Strong work ethic and a desire to learn and progress.
• Interpersonal skills to build professional relationships based on trust and responsibility.
• Analytical skills to assimilate information, grasp concepts quickly, and solve problems.
• Independence, critical thinking, and professional skepticism.
• Attention to detail and strong time-management skills.
• Credible and effective communication skills (written and verbal).
• Affinity with our values, particularly respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity.
• Strong academic performance is important, and while we consider academic achievements, we also value your overall experiences, growth, and development.

Benefits:

• Working for a leading firm
• Funded professional qualifications
• Coaching, mentorship, and support for professional qualification
• Hybrid working model
• We ensure that our people feel valued and heard in an open environment with diverse leadership teams that reflect our clients and society.
• From 25 days and up to 29 days holiday (dependent on grade and length of service) An extra day off over Christmas
• Car leasing
• Cycle to work
• Dental insurance
• Gym membership
• Health assessments
• Other wellbeing benefits
• Personal travel insurance
• Virtual GP

Expected salary

Location

Plymouth

Job date

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:53:25 GMT

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