Business Placement, External Audit

Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.

In financial statement audit at PwC, you will focus on obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes the auditor’s opinion.

Role: Associate - Business Placement (11-Month Fixed Term Contract) 

Location: Jersey 

Line of Service: Assurance 

Grade: Associate 

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5 

 

PwC Channel Islands Overview 

At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert assurance, tax and advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging deep expertise and advanced capabilities, we ensure you’re ready for any future, helping you act boldly and achieve real results. 

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. 

Programme 

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 

We are looking for ambitious, creative thinkers, who want to get their career off to a great start, working in an environment that will challenge and reward you as you progress.  

You’ll be providing market leading assurance services to an unprecedented range of clients. Our clients range from leading multinational companies to start-ups, from family businesses and governments and private individuals. Within financial services our clients cover industries such as banking and capital markets, private equity, real estate, insurance, and consumer finance. Our assurance helps organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. 

Our business placement students will be offered the opportunity to study towards their professional Chartered Accounting qualification with the advantage of the work experience counting towards the time experience requirement. You’ll have a lot of support from your team, career coach and buddy to help you achieve this. Business placement students who return to PwC CI after graduating will recommence their training contract from where they left off. 

Depending on your client’s needs, your time will be split between working at client premises, working in the office and studying for your professional exams. We trust our people to be where our clients need them to be, working together with our colleagues in person as often as needed. Some travel is possible for work and you should expect there to be busy times of the year. 

Who is this vacancy for and what you’ll need 

Our Business Placements are available only to students on four-year degree programmes that feature a sandwich placement element.  

 

The subject of your studies is not relevant but you need to have 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. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.  

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

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Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Accounting Policies, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, Auditing, Auditing Methodologies, Client Management, Communication, Compliance Auditing, Complying With Regulations, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Ingestion, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Security, Data Transformation, Data Visualization, Digital Tooling, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, External Audit {+ 22 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date