Graduate, Advisory/External Audit Split Scheme

Line Of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Advisory Generalist (entry level)

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals.

As a finance consulting generalist at PwC, you will possess a broad understanding of various aspects of finance consulting. Your work will involve providing comprehensive guidance and support to clients in optimising their financial performance, improving decision-making, and achieving their financial goals. You will be responsible for analysing client needs, developing financial solutions, and offering recommendations tailored to specific business requirements.

Role: Associate (Graduate) 

Location: Jersey 

Line of Service: Advisory/External Audit (Split Scheme) 

Grade: Associate 

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5 

PwC Channel Islands Overview 

PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff. 

Programme

Our training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You'll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the network, and throughout your career. 

What You’Ll Do

We are looking for ambitious, creative thinkers, who want to get their career off to a great start, working in an environment that will challenge and reward you as you progress.  

A split scheme position will give you the opportunity to work within the Advisory and External Audit Line of Service. Gaining the knowledge and skills needed to develop your career and remain agile. Upon qualifying, you will be given the choice as to whether you will move full-time into either the Advisory/Risk Assurance Services or External Audit Line of Service. 

Whilst working within External Audit you’ll be providing market leading audit services to an unprecedented range of clients. Helping organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. 

In Advisory we help organisations to work smarter and grow faster, our work is always evolving to respond to industry trends and management focus, we utilise our deep technical skills to provide advice and assistance based on our financial, analytical and business process skills, helping our clients improve and change the way they do business.   

During our three-year programme you will also study for your professional Chartered Accounting qualification. You’ll have a lot of support from your team, career coach and buddy to help you achieve this. It’s the variety and opportunity we offer that allows you to develop a broad range of effective business skills and enables our people to excel across the breadth of work we offer. 

At PwC, whilst we strive to align engagements with the specific proposition you are aligned to or interested in, and your unique skills and experience, market conditions or other factors sometimes necessitate agility across our Advisory team and the broader firm. This flexibility not only supports our dynamic environment but also offers valuable development opportunities and broadened expertise. In these instances, coaching and guidance will be available to help you navigate these diverse assignments successfully. 

Depending on your client’s needs, your time will be split between working at client premises, working in the office and studying for your professional exams. We trust our people to be where our clients need them to be, working together with our colleagues in person as often as needed. Some travel is possible for work and you should expect there to be busy times of the year. 

Who is this vacancy for and what you’ll need 

It doesn't matter who you are or what your schooling background is. As you'll no doubt have gathered by now, we believe diversity is our strength. 

You'll need to have achieved or be on course to achieve a 2.1 result in your degree, from any University. Your degree can be in any subject.   

Do you need a Work Permit? 

Due to immigration restrictions in Jersey and Guernsey the Channel Islands firm is unable to consider trainee candidates who require work permits.  

When To Apply

To avoid disappointment, we recommend applying as early as you can as applications for this role may close early should we receive a high volume of interest. 

The skills we look for in our people: 

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional. 

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver. 

Diversity:

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.  

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting Consulting, Accounting Policies, Active Listening, Communication, Compliance With Accounting Standards, Complying With Regulations, Economic Forecasting, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Accounting, Financial Economics, Financial Management, Financial Market, Financial Modeling, Financial Regulation, Financial Reporting, Financial Risk Management, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Statement Preparation, Financial Strategy, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity, Investment Advising {+ 6 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date