Audit Associate Review

MY role includes testing balances such as Cash, Receivables, Payables along with a large audit team. You work is supervised to ensure that you are coached and have relevant skills and knowledge to perform the work. My role also includes attending college to achieve my professional qualification as a chartered accountant.

I have learnt and developed the following skills: Timing - Due to time pressures of audits, you quickly learn to select which tasks require the most attention and which can be come back to. Team work - Working on a audit is a large team effort, due to the levels of review required.

I have enjoyed my programme over the years, as it has given me audit experience on some of the largest companies in the world, including UK FTSE100 businesses. This is experience that you cannot easily receive. I have also been given sufficient time away from work to work towards my professional qualification.

Our programme stats slow in the first year of the role. As a school leaver you focus more on work than exams to get a stronger base knowledge before sitting exams. These exams then start to pick up in your 2nd to 4 year at a similar speed to graduates.

EY provides us with audit training that is relevant to our skill level. This means that we learn the basics at the start on how to audit and the skills required. Equally, EY does provides us with time away from work to focus on our exams and our professional qualifications.

EY uses multiple training provides. The provide we use, Kaplan Financial, are no longer used for new students joining EY. Kaplan have got academic support during working hours to focus on any questions and queries. We also attend classes of just EY students when studying towards our exams, meaning you know your classmates.

Most of the exams you sit have some links to the work provided. For example Financial Accouching and Reporting And audit and assurance relate to my work in audit. However, there are exams that need to be completed by do not relate to our work, such as management accounting or tax.

EY does have Health EY, which focuses on extra curricular actives for employees. These include things like sports clubs as well as other clubs. While, there are some options available these are not advertised much and could be extended further. If you were not looking for a club, you would not come accross it

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EY have provided great experience along with a competitive salary. Many people I knows work do not provide as much time away from work to focus on our exams. Therefore EY has a good time schedule allowing us to focus on work as well as our professional qualification to qualify on time

I would suggest reading about your role is a good idea. This means looking into what audit really is and use examples such as businesses that EY audits. This shows that you have prepared and gone out your way to prepare for an interview. An understanding of accounting is not required when first starting