A&c - Risk Consulting - Industry & Services Apprentice - 1 September 2025 - London

**Forvis Mazars : who are we?**

Forvis Mazars LLP is the UK firm of Forvis Mazars Group. In the UK we have over 3,300 employees across 14 locations, delivering an outstanding client experience. Forvis Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development. You can find out more about our firm **here**.

**Advisory & Consulting at Forvis Mazars**

At Forvis Mazars, our Advisory and Consulting service line is an award winning, global group of successful, entrepreneurial teams. The scope of roles across our service line is broad and varied which is great for our team and clients. The diversity of our service offering enables us to make the time we spend with our clients count by helping them take meaningful, key decisions with confidence and meet their goals.

Join a team that prioritises quality and trust. Our team is commercial, pragmatic, and reactive to the changes in the market whilst also taking the time to ensure our approach is personal and productive.

You can find out more about Advisory and Consulting at Forvis Mazars here: Advisory & Consulting UK team

**About the Risk Consulting Industry and Services team**

The Risk Consulting Industry and Services team offers internal audit, advisory and other assurance services across multiple organisations. The Industry & Services team provides services to companies of varying sizes, from FTSE 350 companies, to companies with turnover of over £3bn, to smaller, privately-owned companies. The entities we work with range from manufacturing, transport, energy and utilities to those of a more services nature such as media, retail, professional services and technology. We provide our clients with clarity over the performance of their risk and internal control processes and raise recommendations for improvement where required. The team primarily provide outsourced and co-sourced internal audit services, however we also provide (or support other teams with the delivery of) a range of risk-based engagements for example enterprise risk management advisory services and external quality assessments, to name but a few.

Hear from one of our trainees, Hannah:

- There is a strong support network and culture at Forvis Mazars which encourages you to be inquisitive and engaging from the outset - improving and growing as an individual is really encouraged here_

Every story is different at Forvis Mazars. Our people have amazing, personal experiences so the best way to learn about life here is to hear it first hand, click here to hear **their stories**.

**About the role**

As a school leaver apprentice here's what will await you during your four-year training contract:
In this role, you will conduct internal audit reviews of our clients' operations in specific areas. You will be responsible for undertaking internal audits into individual areas of the client's business, providing recommendations that are proportionate and in line with best practice. You will undertake all aspects of the internal audit from opening meeting to report writing/audit closure. The audits that you will undertake will be varied and diverse and will have a direct meaningful impact on our clients and the communities they serve. You will help them to shape their internal processes, reduce their exposure to risk and highlight the opportunities facing them.

We are now operating a hybrid working model, so as a trainee you will split your time between working from home, visiting the office, client sites when required or studying for your professional exams.

During your first two years you will:

- Perform internal audits by testing and reviewing documentation to establish a client's exposure to risk and the effectiveness of the processes in place to mitigate risks;
- Obtain relevant information from clients whilst building an effective rapport with client staff;
- Undertake internal audit testing using a range of tools and methods in order to review and provide recommendations on the client's business operations;
- Develop a thorough understanding of the nature of the client's business, best practice, and applicable regulations;
- Take ownership for an internal audit project within the first two months, including providing feedback to clients verbally and through written internal audit reports; and
- Develop personal and professional skills through regular training, with the support of your team and your line manager.

During your third year you will:

- Start to be involved in supporting client managers in the planning stages of work, such as attending scoping meetings and drafting internal audit Terms of Reference documents;
- Start to specialise in particular sub-sectors or types of audit