1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

Supporting various seniors in my audit engagement team - meetings with clients to understand their business or to understand the evidence they have sent, documenting evidence from clients (screenshots of documents and systems) and trying to tie numbers from evidence to figures provided by clients, helping with overall project management, clearing up excel worksheets, testing numbers, sampling, lots of excel.

8/10

2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

Lots of excel skills - new formulas, shortcuts for everything so don't need to use the mouse, email etiquette when messaging clients especially, project management and keeping track of the millions of things to do

9/10

3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

Can sometimes be boring on a day to day basis, but so far my team is nice which makes everything nicer. Working late can be miserable sometimes but time flies when you have a million things to do...

7/10

4. How well organised/structured is your programme?

Initially very well structured and organized in the first few months to get started on everything and all of the initial training programs, clear learning tasks you have to complete, later on it is more self study but still organized. A lot of the actual learning relies on the patience of your seniors...

8/10

5. How much support do you receive from your employer?

Given a buddy (in the year above) to show you around the office and tell you about what to expect initially, there is an apprenticeship coach to help with issues with professional qualification (see them every 3 months) and there is a councilor who will support you with feedback, and you can catch up with more regularly.

6/10

6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

Some modules are fully supported with in person college and enough days off, some modules are live online courses, but some modules are only self study with not enough days off

6/10

7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

More general understanding on underlying principles and logic that underpins work we do. Some modules are not super relevant to actual work done.

6/10

8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)

Social events organized within engagement team - frequency depends on size of team but often one after sign off and one initially. Many sports teams to get involved with, networks for different cultural backgrounds, other events you can book that happen more frequency (but get booked up fast! like make your own terrarium event)

9/10

9a. Would you recommend EY to a friend?

Yes

9b. Why?

Nice work culture, and supportive team to help me learn, can get stressful but so far (for me at least) mostly limited to busy season

10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to EY?

If thinking about applying to tax vs audit - tax is way more chill

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