Higher Apprentice, External Audit

PWC; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC UK is offering a Higher Apprentice position in External Audit. This full-time training role focuses on learning how financial statements, internal controls and audit procedures are carried out, while gaining practical experience on live client work within the PwC network.

The programme combines hands-on coaching with a development framework to broaden business, personal and technical skills you can apply across the network throughout your career in assurance and advisory services.

Job description

Higher Apprentice, External Audit

PWC

Full time Ref: 20261843 Opened: 02/11/2026 Closes: 02/12/2026

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.

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.

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.