Audit Apprentice Review

I am an audit apprentice. I travel to different client sites on a weekly basis to help conduct the audit. I perform testing over certain aspects of the financial statements to ensure they are true and fair.

I have gained in depth accounting knowledge through sitting my Level 3 and 4 AAT exams.

The hours are long and it can be stressful at times. However, there are plenty of opportunities to succeed within KPMG and having done an apprenticeship, there is no uni debt and I will be a fully qualified accountant by the end of my apprenticeship.

The programme is structured well but sometimes lacks the organisation from the training providers.

KPMG give us study leave time whenever we have exams, and adequate time to complete the relevant training for our apprenticeship.

The tutors are great but BPP as a whole are not great. The syllabus had endless mistakes in for our last exam that made revising very difficult. There also some sort of errors every time it comes to booking our exams etc that come from BPP.

The accounting qualifications we sit really help our roles in audit.

I am on the KPMG social committee. We organise the social events for the audit department in the Leeds office.

No

The hours are long and you often feel undervalued and underappreciated. The pay does not reflect the hours we do and the work we do well enough.

Get comfortable with KPMG core values and what the role of audit actually entails.