Audit Graduate Trainee with Leading Firm
Gradfuel, United Kingdom
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 amp; 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