Business Placement, External Audit

PwC Channel Islands; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Jersey is offering a 12-month fixed-term Associate - Business Placement role. This position is designed for students on four-year degree courses with a sandwich element, providing the chance to gain industry experience and study towards a Chartered Accounting qualification. Responsibilities include providing audit services and collaborating with clients from various sectors. Early applications are encouraged due to high interest.

Qualifications

• Students on four-year degree programmes that feature a sandwich placement element are eligible.
• No specific subject of study is required, but academic performance is important.

Responsibilities

• Provide audit services to a diverse range of clients.
• Study towards a professional Chartered Accounting qualification.
• Split time between client premises, office, and studying for exams.

Education

Achieved 96 UCAS points

On track for at least a 2.1 result in degree

Job description

Overview

Role: Associate - Business Placement (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Location: Jersey

Line of Service: External Audit

Grade: Associate

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5

PwC Channel Islands Overview

PwC is a dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff.

If you’re taking a four-year degree course with a sandwich element, a business placement at PwC CI is a valuable opportunity to gain 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 a wide variety of work, gaining 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 start their career in an environment that will challenge and reward them as they progress.

You’ll provide market-leading audit services to a diverse range of clients, from leading multinational companies to start-ups, family businesses, governments and private individuals. In financial services, clients span banking and capital markets, private equity, real estate, insurance, and consumer finance. Our audit helps organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business.

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

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

Who this vacancy is 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 if 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 form the global leadership framework, the Evolved PwC Professional.

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by the behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive Outcomes are underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.

Diversity:

We work in a changing world that 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. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.