Risk and Controls Consulting – Internal Audit & Change

Deloitte (UK); Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 11,000 - 16,000; Part time

Job summary

Deloitte UK is offering a 6-week Early Careers placement in Manchester within Internal Audit & Change. You'll work on audits across processes, learn controls design, and gain exposure to risk and assurance with senior leaders.

Applicants should be penultimate-year students or starting a Masters and aiming for a 2:1 or above. The role operates a hybrid model with in-person induction and ongoing development support.

Qualifications

• University student in penultimate year or pursuing a Masters.
• Predict a 2:1 or above in any discipline.
• Willingness to participate in a 6-week placement.

Responsibilities

• Assessing design and operating effectiveness of controls.
• Auditing key processes to understand business model and revenue streams.
• Designing future control environment for the organisation.
• Providing recommendations to improve risk mitigation.
• Advising clients on assurance approaches.
• Building and embedding a new internal audit function.
• Leading interactive workshops to diagnose issues.

Skills

Team player

Effective communicator

Education

Penultimate year / Masters candidate, predicted 2:1 or above

Job description

Our Internal Audit & Change team works with clients to help them understand the risks they are exposed to, establish effective controls and provide assurance that these controls are operating effectively.

The team has experience in designing, implementing, and enhancing business processes, working with a broad range of clients across all sectors, including financial services, corporate and public sector.

Through day-to-day engagement with our clients, we are able to work with senior leaders across a range of disciplines and understand the inner workings, challenges and opportunities faced by our clients.

We are looking for people who are team players and effective communicators. In our team you’ll learn the technical skills you need to deliver great work for clients, and a deep insight into lots of different industries.

What skills and academic qualifications do I need?

This programme is for university students who are doing well academically and want to test their skills in the real world.You must be in the penultimate year of your course, or going onto a Masters, and you need to be on track to achieve a predicted degree classification of 2:1 or above in any discipline.

Duration of the programme: 6-weeks

We haveidentified10 core skills that are essential to all our roles in Early Careers. To learn more about these skills and their detailed descriptions, please visit the 'Discover What We Look For' section inour Candidate Zone .

What kind of work will I do?

• Assessing the design and/or operating effectiveness of a control, process, or function.
• Running audits across a number of interesting processes of an organisation, getting to the heart of their business model, revenue generation process and customer service.
• Designing the future control environment for an organisation.
• Providing recommendations on how a client can improve its risk mitigation activities.
• Advising a client on their approach to assurance.
• Building and embedding a new Assurance or Internal Audit function.
• Getting to the bottom of client’s problems through interactive workshops.

Our propositions and offerings cover all relevant risk domains, so you may also have the opportunity to be aligned to one of our teams covering Technology and Cyber controls (which includes auditing Artificial Intelligence tools and technologies), Transformation and Change assurance, or Data Analytics.

Where will I work?

At Deloitte werecognisehow important face-to-face interaction is foryourdevelopment in a new role.We also understand that our people need flexibility, which is whyweoperateahybrid system,with acombination ofoffice and home working. Ifyou’rein a client-facing role, you might be expected to attend client siteson certain days,while yourmeetings will be a mix of online and in-person events.Please note your final assessment and induction will also be in-person, to give you the opportunity to network and build relationships.

All our workspaces are accessible, however, if you require further flexibility due to a health condition or caring responsibilities, please discuss this with our team.You can find further information onour family friendly, flexible working here.

Joining onthisprogramme, you will be joining alongside a large cohort of like-minded colleagues. At the start of yourprogrammeyou will be part of an inductionprogramme where you will learn a multitude of skills to help you become ready and feel confidentworking withour clients. You will also receive continued professional development support via your project team, mentoringand yourbuddywho will beassigned to you.

Additional support and benefits information

• We’re a collaborative, inclusive firm and we want to help you to use your unique talents and perspectives in the workplace. From diversity networks to wellbeing and much more, we aim to support and reward you in the best way possible. Please use the links below to discover more about our processes, benefits, values and culture.
• Do you have accessibility requirements or need reasonable adjustments for the interview or assessment process? Find out how we can help.

Application deadlines

The closing deadline for this role is 23rd October 2026, but we recommend getting your application in as soon as possible. Please note, some of our roles may close before the deadline if we experience high demand.

Once you’ve applied to this role, you’ll receive an email from our recruitment team outlining next steps and the relevant deadlines for you to complete the following stages of our process.

We operate a strict one application per year policy across our Early Careers opportunities. We recommend only submitting an application for a role that you feel is right for you.

We’reunable to provide sponsorship for this role. If you are currently on a student visa and would require Skilled Worker sponsorship to join Deloitte after graduation, we’re unable to accept your application, as the salary for the Graduate conversion role in this location does not currently meet the minimum threshold required under the Immigration Rules for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Please apply instead for a Summer Vacation Scheme in London, Aberdeen, Bristol, Cambridge, Reading,Gatwickor Southampton, where available. In these locations, the Graduate conversion roles meet the relevant salary threshold, and weare able tosponsor Skilled Worker visas. You can only join our Summer Vacation Scheme if our dates coincide with your university summer vacation.

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