Risk Consulting Graduate Trainee

**At Mazars we have a wide range of opportunities for you to gain experience in a firm that truly cares about your aspirations. Our business is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, and we are known for giving ambitious people early responsibility and exposure.**
- Are you a graduate with strong analytical and project management skills? Do you enjoy building trusted client relationships? This is a great opportunity to make a difference to the organisations you'll be working with in the public and social sector whilst gaining an excellent technical grounding and real responsibility._

**About the role**

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 public sector 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 year 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 second 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 audits where you have developed an interest;
- Increase your confidence in providing your own solutions and ideas to complex client scenarios;
- Perform more challenging technical audits under the guidance of the relevant Mazars manager;
- Gain proficiency in report writing, and begin to review the work of more junior team members; and
- Be able to aid junior team members by providing support and feedback.

In your third year you will:

- Be able to complete complex audit reviews with mínimal supervision from Mazars managers;
- Act as a point of contact for both internal Mazars management, junior members of the team, and clients, ensuring that the internal audit work of others is completed within required timeframes;
- Begin managing the operational delivery of client internal audit plans, including taking ownership for scoping meetings with clients to develop internal audit Terms of Reference documents;
- Develop client portfolio and contract management skills, that will put you on a pathway to the Assistant Manager grade;
- Gain exposure to Board-level client meetings, shadow managers who will be responsible for presenting our reports; and
- Provide on the job advice, training, and supervision of junior staff, with the opportunity to take on Manager responsibilities.

**About the team**

The Advisory & Consulting Service Line is a rapidly growing, award winning, global group of successful teams working together to deliver the highest quality of work for our clients.

If you are successful in securing a role on our training programme you will join a team of 600+ innovative specialists across a variety of sectors including Financial Services, Industry & Services, and Public Services with consultative expertise in Risk & Management Consulting, Internal Audit, Actuarial and all aspects of the Tech & Digital space. Our Advisory teams are at the forefront of large international infrastructure projects, global M&A transactions, high-profile forensic investigations, business valuations, corporate restructuring and creditor advisory services; all with the aim of adding value to clients by finding solutions to a range of financial issues as one collaborative team.

The Public and Social Sector Risk Consulting team offers internal audit, advisory and other assurance services across multiple organisation