Audit Placement Year: Real Client Experience, Hybrid

Ballards LLP; Worcester; Hybrid; GBP 11,000 - 15,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Pension

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes

Enhanced family leave

Job summary

Ballards in Worcester is offering an Audit Placement Year for 2027. You’ll join a growing independent firm, working with real clients from day one and gaining hands-on experience in audit and financial controls.

You’ll learn how businesses operate, understand risks and testing, and build professional relationships early. Aiming for a minimum 2:1, you’ll develop confidence and a pathway to a potential permanent role after the placement.

Qualifications

• You don’t need previous audit experience.
• We’re looking for placement students who are curious, analytical, ambitious, comfortable working with people and ready to learn.
• You’ll be studying toward a degree that includes a placement year and be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1. You’ll bring strong attention to detail, good communication skills and the confidence to ask questions and take ownership of your development.

Responsibilities

• Work on live audit assignments across a range of clients and industries.
• Learn how businesses operate, from their financial reporting and systems to their risks and controls.
• Carry out audit testing, review financial information and investigate what sits behind the numbers.
• Work directly with clients and build professional relationships from the start.
• Develop your technical knowledge while gaining the commercial understanding that turns an auditor into a trusted adviser.

Skills

Curious

Analytical

Ambitious

People skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Ownership of development

Education

Degree with placement year

Job description

Ballards in Worcester is offering an Audit Placement Year for 2027. You’ll join a growing independent firm, working with real clients from day one and gaining hands-on experience in audit and financial controls.

You’ll learn how businesses operate, understand risks and testing, and build professional relationships early. Aiming for a minimum 2:1, you’ll develop confidence and a pathway to a potential permanent role after the placement.