Thinking differently

In our Audit teams, we help to protect the public interest. Learning alongside some of the best professionals, you’ll enable organisations across every sector to be transparent about what they do, build stronger systems of quality control, increase their capability to manage risk and, most crucially, grow the confidence of the public. We respond to emerging issues and risks, and make sure that the information that companies report is clear and reliable.

• Large & Complex Audit: We work with a wide range of clients including banks, insurers, public sector organisations and some of the largest listed organisations around the world.
• Portfolio Audit: We focus on the audit of entrepreneurial, high growth businesses. Our clients span a wide range of sectors including privately owned corporates, real estate funds, pension schemes, financial services brokers, investment managers, securitisations and other organisations.

We also have the following opportunities available in Audit & Assurance on our Technology page. If you would like to apply to any of these roles, remember to select ‘Technology’ when you are asked which career path you would like to apply to.

• Assurance Analytics: We help our clients with three main activities – data, models and analytics, giving assurance over what they’ve produced, or helping to improve them. The breadth of our work spans across industries including Banking and Capital Markets, Investment Management, Private Equity, Insurance, Public Sector, Retail, and Oil and Gas.
• IT Specialists -Audit: We work across all parts of the audit business to assess the risk around IT systems that generate financially relevant information. You’ll learn how IT supports business objectives and key processes. Our purpose is to serve the public interest and help give confidence that the financial information going out to stakeholders (e.g. shareholders, employees, regulators etc.) is correct. As part of your graduate opportunity, you will have the option to study towards the ACA qualification with either ICAS or ICAEW depending on which country you are based. Other relevant certifications such as CISA are offered during your career with us.
• IT: Specialists – Assurance: We work on a variety of projects with some great clients – focusing on IT assurance. All of the core skills you develop through IT Audit will stand you in good stead for this broader IT assurance work. As part of your graduate opportunity, you will have the option to study towards the ACA qualification with either ICAS or ICAEW depending on which country you are based. Other relevant certifications such as CISA are offered during your career with us.

To be resilient, businesses must be ready to respond to current and future challenges and opportunities. They’re also being required to be more transparent with their reporting, to drive trust and confidence in the market, and protect the wider public interest. We provide independent assurance by assessing the risks and underlying processes, so that organisations can make the right decision for them. During our Assurance graduate programmes you’ll either complete the CIMA qualification (for Analytics and Regulatory Assurance) or the ACA qualification (for Financial Assurance). Both of these will help you to develop a strategic mindset for management accounting. Discover more about the teams and areas you could work with below.

• Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG) Assurance: From integrating sustainability reviews into annual reporting, to public scrutiny, ESG assurance is more critical than ever – and our experts help to make sure that happens.
• Financial Assurance: Our financial assurance business has four key focus areas Corporate Treasury, Transactions, Accounting and Controls.
• Corporate Treasury: We play a pivotal role in managing financial risk and advising on business strategy decisions. You’ll get to develop your expertise to impact a broad range of corporate clients across every industry sector.
• Regulatory Assurance: Our regulatory assurance business has four key focus areas – Markets Assurance, Prudential Regulatory Assurance, Client Assets and Safeguarding, and Investment Management GRC.

Rewards & Benefits

Our Actuarial, Pensions and Rewards Practice in Audit & Assurance is a rapidly growing team of actuaries, employee benefits specialists and modelling experts. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide audit and assurance services to trustees and corporate sponsors of pension schemes. You’ll get the opportunity to work in a national practice based in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham or Belfast, with excellent learning and development options. The highly experienced team has an ambitious five year growth plan and you’ll be part of some exciting projects. From the outset you'll enjoy exposure to a broad and varied range of companies, enabling you to increase your market knowledge across different industries, enhance your mathematical and modelling skills, and build new relationships.

We’ve created a Centre of Excellence in Newcastle (SACC) to support our client engagement teams throughout the UK. The team here provides remote support to our nationwide client engagement teams in completing tasks associated with the audit of statutory accounts. It involves day-to-day liaison with our client facing colleagues, and will enable you to develop an understanding of company accounts. Roles are available for entry level apprentices who are leaving school. You will be completing your Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Level 4 apprenticeship whilst working in our team and become a subject matter expert in company accounts. As part of this, you will attend college to study AAT level 4 with your peers. As well as formal and informal on-the-job training, you’ll have a supportive team around you to guide you through your career at Deloitte.