Business Placement, External Audit

PWC CHANNEL ISLANDS LIMITED; St Peter Port; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Channel Islands invites applications for an Associate - Business Placement (11-month fixed term contract) in Guernsey. The role offers exposure to a wide range of financial services clients, including banking, real estate, and insurance, with hands-on audit experience and professional development support.

You will work under supervision to learn assurance methodologies, governance and risk management processes, and contribute to delivering high-quality, independent assessments, while

Qualifications

• Must be a current student on a four-year degree with a sandwich placement element.
• Need to achieve at least 96 UCAS points and a 2:1 or above.
• Interest in assurance, governance and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Assist with independent and objective assessments of financial statements.
• Support audits across FS clients, including banking, real estate, and insurance.
• Study towards Chartered Accounting qualification while gaining hands-on experience.

Skills

Auditing

Financial Reporting

Data Analysis

Communication

Education

Four-year degree with sandwich placement

UCAS points 96

Job description

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: Guernsey 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.

Diversity

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

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Required Skills

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}

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Travel

Travel Requirements Up to 20%

Work Visa Sponsorship

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? No

Government Clearance

Government Clearance Required? No

Job Posting End Date

No Job Posting End Date