Vacation Audit

KPMG International Cooperative; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Reading is offering a four-week Audit Vacation Programme designed for university students. This program provides an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in auditing, enhance your CV, and lay the groundwork for a potential graduate role. Candidates should have strong GCSE results, be on track for a 2:1 undergraduate degree, and possess key skills such as curiosity and resilience. The firm promotes a hybrid working model that supports flexibility and collaboration.

Benefits

Access to training and development resources

Inclusive team environment

Professional networking opportunities

Qualifications

• Vacation Programmes are open to students in their penultimate year of university or due to graduate in 2027.
• Must have completed GCSE Maths and English at grade 5 or B.
• Should achieve 120 UCAS points from top three A Level grades (300 UCAS points pre-2017).

Responsibilities

• Gain work experience in a specific audit business area.
• Enhance your CV and learn about the world of work.
• Participate in real-time projects to learn new skills.

Skills

Curiosity

Resilience

Agility

Education

Grade 5 or B GCSE Maths

Grade 5 or B GCSE English Language

120 UCAS points

On track for a 2:1 undergraduate degree

Job description

The largest of our UK practices, Audit provides insight, challenge and expertise to some of the world's biggest companies. We make a meaningful difference to those businesses and the wider community, by examining organisations and ensuring that their published accounts provide a true and fair reflection of their financial position. Join us on this programme and you'll have the opportunity to see the auditing process from a range of different perspectives, giving you a rounded view of the discipline and benefiting from learning that will last a lifetime. In fact, you're laying the groundwork for a secure and long-lasting career. Our four-week Audit Vacation Programme is your chance to gain work experience in a specific audit business area and an insight into life within our diverse and supportive audit community. The programme is designed to help you grow and develop a breadth of professional skills, giving you learning that will last you a lifetime. Building your commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of different sectors and businesses and understand more about the work we do to deliver the highest quality audits. This programme has been purposefully designed as a step towards a possible Graduate offer if you're successful on the programme. This offer would only be for the same location and business area as that you completed your vacation programme. As such, please ensure you have a commitment to the Vacation programme location and business area that you apply to. Our firm's hybrid working model balances the flexibility of working from home with the importance of collaborating and learning in our offices, or at the sites of the organisations we audit. We trust our people to be where they need to be, with our colleagues working together in person as often as needed. You'll be empowered by the technology that supports us to work flexibly across our collaborative office spaces. Join us and be part of an inclusive team that's supportive of individual wellbeing and makes a meaningful difference to the companies we audit and our communities. If you're curious, resilient and agile, you could thrive with us.

Qualifications

• Grade 5 or B GCSE Maths
• Grade 5 or B GCSE English Language
• 120 UCAS points + from your 'top' 3 grades, excluding General Studies under the 2017 tariff point system at A Level (300 UCAS points pre-2017)
• On track to achieve a 2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline.
• Vacation Programmes open to students in their penultimate year of university or due to graduate in 2027.
• Key Skills: Throughout the recruitment process we will be looking to learn more about your strengths.

Training and Development

Training and Development: As the vacation programme is not that long, the focus for you will be to ensure every second counts. Above all else, it's about gaining experience on real-time, real-life projects. It's an opportunity to learn new skills, enhance your CV, learn about the world of work and, importantly, get your foot in the door of one of the leading professional services firms. And if you're inspired by the time you spend with us here and go on to join us full-time once you've graduated, you'll get access to exemplary training and development to help you thrive. The training and development of our people is critical to the future success of our business. We want to empower our trainees to grow in their own way, to feed their curiosity and embrace a growth mindset in an environment where learning is continuous. Therefore, we have created a rich curriculum and learning community to help our trainees build skills and fulfil their potential. This ranges from an immersive induction experience to help with the transition to the world of work, formal training courses, leadership knowledge bites, learning journals, online courses and networking events - all aligned to our 'learn for a lifetime' strategy designed to help trainees gain an advantage for life. As part of your vacation programme, you will be introduced to this package and have the opportunity to experience some of the training and development curriculum and learning community.