Northern Commercial Audit

PwC's Northern Audit practice is a powerhouse of UK regional offices including Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast. Together we service clients of all sizes, in a diverse range of sectors, delivering high quality External Audits and Audit related services. Covering geographically unique markets, including the Energy and Renewables industry, you'll have the opportunity to work with some distinctive clients, understanding their business and working with teams that will coach and support you.

Central Commercial Audit

The Central Practice consists of five networked offices in Birmingham, East Midlands, Milton Keynes, Bristol and Cardiff. With a rapidly growing, dynamic marketplace, more than 500 clients and some 600 partners and staff in the region, the Central Audit practice is a great place to build your career. We audit a wide variety of clients from entrepreneurial start-ups through to major public sector organisations, FTSE100 members and large global businesses. You'll have the opportunity to work on global projects, collaborating with PwC colleagues and clients all over the world to deliver high quality deliverables for our clients.

Insurance

At PwC our financial services business units operate nationally from key UK hubs. Our market leading Insurance practice provides audits to a significant number of insurance companies, including listed companies and global groups, across all areas of insurance - Life, Non-Life, Lloyd's and Broking. Joining our team will give you the opportunity to work with a variety of teams in a sector that has a strong focus on innovation. Our commitment to global relationships means our teams are well-positioned to meet the future needs of audit and will provide you with fantastic opportunities to learn and develop.

London Commercial Audit

Within London Audit, you'll have the opportunity to audit clients across a diverse portfolio, from owner managed businesses, private equity backed companies, up to large multinational and listed groups. We work with many household names across a broad range of industries including entertainment and media, pharmaceuticals, technology and communications, energy, utilities and mining, retail, hospitality and leisure, business services, construction and real estate. We also work across the third sector, spanning a number of government and public sector clients and charities. In London Commercial Audit, you'll have the opportunity to work on global projects, collaborating with PwC colleagues and clients all over the world.

Asset and Wealth Management

One of our financial services audit teams, Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) is a fast growing business with a unique audit division offering a broad range of audit services, tailored to assist Asset management clients grow and overcome the complex challenges they face. Operating out of key strategic locations across the UK, our client base is varied - think FTSE listed, Private companies, Private Equity and Venture Capitalist backed companies. You'll have the opportunity to gain experience across a wide variety of markets and industry sectors including, real estate, hedge funds, private equity, and asset and wealth management.

Banking and Capital Markets

Banking and Capital Markets (B&CM) Audit is our market leading banking audit practice, with an extensive portfolio of flagship clients ranging from global banks to brokers, challenger banks and FinTechs. Joining our team will give you the opportunity to deliver audit services on both large and smaller audits and across a broad range of client roles that align to your interests or give you a new challenge. You'll be given the opportunity to help many of these clients enhance or transform existing operations and uphold the highest levels of audit quality.

South East Commercial Audit

The South-East Commercial Audit business at PwC is one of the largest within the UK firm and a strategic priority for growth. And we're growing. Fast. We provide external audit and audit related services to a broad range of clients, from large multinationals to tech start-ups, from five offices with over 850 staff and Partners. Our clients are from an incredibly diverse mix of sectors; from engineering to financial services and gaming to pharmaceuticals. Our proximity to big business means that you'll get to work on some of the largest and most complex projects across the firm, whilst maintaining an unparalleled breadth of client experience.

Programme

Open to all, this vacancy is aimed primarily at inspiring and supporting Black students seeking an experience in professional services as part of our commitment to improve diversity across the organisation. The programme focuses on developing confidence and skills and provides an insight into the opportunities available at PwC.

During this three-day paid programme you'll get an insight into what a career at PwC could look like, you'll meet mentors and buddies who'll represent the variety of opportunities available across PwC. You'll meet some of our Black colleagues to hear about their own personal career journeys, as well as from some of our networks focussed on Inclusion and Diversity. Through interactive sessions the programme will help you to develop confidence in a business setting and encourage you to bring your whole self to the workplace. At PwC, we nurture an environment where our people can be the best they can be.

Our Black Talent in Business programme will be a 3-day paid programme, 16 - 18 April 2024. You will need to be in the UK to complete this programme.

Office locations

The office locations for this role are;

Aberdeen

Birmingham

Bristol

Cambridge

Cardiff

East Midlands

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Leeds

London

Manchester

Milton Keynes

Newcastle

Reading

Southampton

Watford.

We'll ask for your office preference locations during the recruitment process. If you successfully complete the recruitment process we'll then let you know which office you will be based in during the three-day programme by the end of February. Please be aware that we may not be able to offer you your top office location.

What you'll do

You'll be providing market leading audit services to an unprecedented range of clients including one of the largest shares of FTSE 100 companies of any UK audit firm. Our clients range from leading multinational companies to start-ups, from family businesses and governments, to charities and private individuals. Within financial services our clients cover industries within banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance, and consumer finance. Our audit helps organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business.

You'll also study for your professional chartered accounting qualification. You'll have a lot of support from your team, career coach and buddy to help you achieve this. It's the variety and opportunity we offer that allows you to develop a broad range of effective business skills and enables our people to excel across the breadth of work Audit offers, both on the training programmes and further on in your career.

What you'll need

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.

You'll need to be a first year undergraduate university student on a three-year degree course; or

You'll need to be a second year undergraduate university students on a four-year degree course.

During the Black Talent in Business programme, you will be assessed using a variety of methods to deem your eligibility to be offered a place on our Summer Internship programme 2025. By applying to the Black Talent in Business programme, you are confirming that you will be available to complete the Summer Internship programme in July 2025 should you receive a subsequent offer.

When to apply

To join the Black Talent in Business First Year programme you'll have to complete and pass two stages of our selection process; the online test and video interview.

Applications for this role may close early should we receive a high volume of interest so we recommend prompt application to avoid disappointment.