Undergraduate Work Placement - Advisory and Consulting - Belfast

Price waterhouse Coopers LLP; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Belfast offers an 11-month Undergraduate Work Placement designed to immerse you in Management Consulting. You’ll work with graduate trainees and seasoned professionals, gaining commercial awareness and interpersonal skills across a range of client projects.

To apply, you must be in the second year of your undergraduate degree and complete the placement in the penultimate year. You can be on track to pass an undergraduate degree in any subject, with eligibility based on the listed degree

Qualifications

• You’ll need to be in the second year of your undergraduate degree and complete a placement in the penultimate year of your degree.
• You’ll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in any subject.

Responsibilities

• Learn about PwC's business and how technology creates competitive advantage in client work.
• Carry out research as part of your studies to develop research skills needed for the role.
• Work alongside graduate trainees and experienced professionals to gain exposure to a wide range of clients.

Education

Second year undergraduate

Penultimate year placement

Any subject degree

Job description

Undergraduate Work Placement

Experiencing life inside one of the world's largest professional services organisations is a fantastic way to build your commercial awareness and interpersonal skills. Working alongside graduate trainees and experienced professionals, you’ll learn about our business and get exposure to a wide range of clients.

This 11-month paid placement is for students who need to complete a placement as part of their undergraduate degree. They would also be required to carry out research as part of their studies, ensuring they have had the opportunity to practise and develop the research skills needed for the role. Please refer to the list of eligible degree subjects before applying. This year we have roles in Management Consulting.

• Business & Management
• Marketing & Market Research
• Economics
• Mathematical & Computational Sciences
• Modern Languages
• Psychology & Behavioural Science
• Social Sciences (incl. Geography, Sociology, Politics, Anthropology)
• Media, Communications & Cultural Studies
• Arts & Humanities (General)
• Design & UX

Management Consulting

In Management Consulting, we use our understanding of how business works and how technology can create competitive advantage to help clients deliver profitable growth. That might mean helping businesses understand, and create better experiences for, their customers and employees. It might mean optimising financial management, driving operational efficiency, advising on workforce effectiveness or bringing together a range of interrelated projects to deliver broad strategic outcomes.

Throughout, you’ll learn how to provide business leaders with the data and insight they need to make smarter decisions. And you’ll develop strategies and solutions that streamline processes, improve productivity and drive business performance.

What you’ll need

You’ll need to be in the second year of your undergraduate degree and need to complete a placement in the penultimate year of your degree.

You’ll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.