Deloitte Jobs – Audit Assistant

About the job

Your opportunity

Are you interested in exploring a career in finance and are looking for a way in? You think you have potential and want to join an inclusive firm where the opportunities are impossible to turn down. If this rings true, then a role in our growing team could be for you.

We are proud to offer flexible working arrangements which allow our people to choose the most suitable working arrangement that works for them. Whether this is working 4 days per week, taking the summer months off work, or more flexibility around your working pattern, we consider both formal and informal working arrangements that allow our people and our clients the best outcome. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Your role

We’ve created a Centre of Excellence in Newcastle to support our client engagement teams throughout the UK and as an Accounts and Audit Associate here, you’ll play a key role in our continued success.

Our client facing people are spread across the UK, working from several regional offices. At the Newcastle Centre of Excellence, we support them all.

The Newcastle Centre of Excellence is designed to assist our client facing colleagues with the completion of audit procedures on the statutory accounts and enables the delivery of centralised, high-quality audit to client facing teams.

You will provide remote support to our nationwide client engagement teams in completing tasks associated with the audit of statutory accounts. It will involve day-to-day liaison with client engagement teams and will enable you to develop an understanding of company accounts. With our supportive culture and hands-on training, you will have the opportunity to become a subject matter specialist, develop best practice methodologies and deliver the quality service our high-profile clients know to expect.

Specifically, you will have responsibility for:

• Proof reading accounts for calculation errors.
• Checking disclosures for compliance with company law and accounting standards
• Agreement of information included within the accounts to supporting documentation provided by audit engagement teams
• Undertaking other administrative tasks to assist audit teams

Your work, your choice

At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location: Newcastle office but we are offering Hybrid working

Work pattern: This is a permanent contract opportunity to be worked on a full-time basis. Full time hours would be 35 hours per week. Our team members work a variety of agile working patterns. Tell us what arrangement works for you and we’ll try to accommodate.

Your professional experience

• Keen to learn and become a specialist in your own right
• You’ll be mathematically competent and have an eye for detail
• Confident and articulate with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn, develop and apply the technical knowledge gained through our extensive training and development plan
• Able to display initiative, professionalism, diligence and discretion at all time
• A flexible multi-tasker: You’ll be working on multiple engagements simultaneously
• Computer literacy is a must. You’ll be knowledgeable in Microsoft Office (Word and Excel) and have an ability to learn new packages quickly
• GCSEs or equivalent with a minimum grade C in English and grade B in Maths.

Our team come from a wide range of backgrounds: from having little or no prior experience to having more accounting or finance experience. We offer comprehensive and extensive training to enable you to perform the role. You will have the opportunity to become a subject matter expert and to advance both your technical and soft skills through our structured training and career development plans.

Your service line: Audit & Assurance

In an industry best known for looking back, Deloitte looks beyond.

Our Audit & Assurance team understand the most important decisions are the ones we are yet to make. Crafting the future in an informed and clear-sighted way means understanding current conditions, as well as the trends that are shaping tomorrow. That is why we use our expertise in audit to show where things stand now, and to help inform the next step. With the assurance we provide, we help our clients to look ahead with strength and confidence across all their accounting, regulatory and transaction needs.

Innovation is the key, underpinned by audit quality. You will be joining a diverse team of experts capable of delivering meaningful and durable change for both our clients and our profession.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

About Deloitte

Our Purpose & Strategy

To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society – defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it’s about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.

What do we do?

Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Legal, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.

Beyond the UK: Deloitte North and South Europe

The UK is part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network. Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta), Ireland, the Middle East (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK. Deloitte NSE brings together 2,700 partners and over 50,000 people, combining our unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region. Being part of Deloitte NSE supports our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services and will create more opportunity and growth for our people.

What do we value?

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for maximum impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Being a Leader at Deloitte

Cultural fit and purpose-led leadership is crucial for Deloitte. Our leaders always set the example and inspire their colleagues. They make quality time for people and take an interest in them. They know what matters to people – both inside and outside work – and value them as individuals; always finding opportunities to develop them while showing respect and appreciation.

We expect colleagues at all levels to embrace and live our purpose and our leadership culture by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters. We know leadership comes in all shapes and sizes, but our Leadership Charter helps all of our people understand what we’re looking for:

• We live our purpose: we act as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognising others for the impact they make
• We develop talent: we develop high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
• We drive performance: we deliver exceptional client service; maximise results and drive high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
• We believe positive influence can make an impact that matters: we influence clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
• We move, together, towards a strategic direction: we understand key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligning people to objectives and setting priorities and direction.