Audit Assistant Review

The main role of an audit assistant is to support the audit from start to finish through the planning, interim, final and completion stage of the audit. To assist, i perform testing of the clients work to ensure the amounts they are proposing to report on are accurate and not missleading

Yes, i have learnt many new skills as well as developing many. The main new skill i have learnt is to have a questioning mindset. It is key to question everything you see in audit to fully understand the area of testing. An area that has developed is my skills with excel as that is a key programme used within the role

I really enjoy the apprenticeship programme. There are many opportunities to continually improve my ability and technical accounting knowledge. There are also opportunities to travel around the country to different client offices. For example, i have travelled to Manchester and to many parts of London for different clients to go to their offices.

The apprenticeship programme is both very well organised and structed well. Within the company, there is a dedicated team to the exams, learning and training process. This team help with everything to do with the exams, time in college and study days required for the exams. This is a useful way for us to be able to ensure that we do not miss any learning.

There is a lot of support throughout the company. You are paired with another audit associate upon joining (one that joined a year or two before you) to help with the initial process of joining and getting to know the office etc., and a performance manager which is there for support throughout your time at the company over any area that you need support

BPP are helpful with the support they provide. They have so many resources to help you pass all your exams and the learning time in college is really good. The lecturers are filled with knowledge to help with all questions you have over the exam questions or exam in general.

The qualification is directly linked to the role. By learning new accounting skills through the exams, understanding more about accounting and increasing my technical accounting knowledge. These can be applied to our test work to ensure that the financial statements are correct and free from error or fraud. The exams are key to help increase ability within the workplace

Yes there are so many different ones to get involved with. There are many sports teams that take place (A cricket team for example), there are also so many other groups that can be joined (an example of one would be Muslim network group ) There are so many to be named, but there are so many different opportunities outside the normal role of an auditor

Yes

Its a great company to work for. The people you work with are amazing and i cant think of better teams that i would like to be in. The opportunities for progression within the company are really good or external opportunities once you qualify from the apprenticeship. You will have many opportunities which ever route you wish to take.

When you join, show how keen and willing you are to learn and improve. This will be noticed and you will be very surprised how steep the learning curve in the job is. 3 years ago when i joined, i had no clue how my life would change, in a positive way, as a result of joining KPMG.