Benefit from major investment in your training and development. Enjoy immense variety. And develop into a true business adviser.
Find out more about Investment Funds and Pensions Audit
Assurance
What we do
Our Assurance practice is brand-defining. As market leaders, we’re constantly pioneering and driving our audit business forward. Our experts analyse every aspect of clients’ activities, then advise them on whether what they’re doing is sustainable, profitable and legal.
Investment Funds and Pensions Audit is a specialised group based in London and around 80 people strong. Our clients are various open and closed ended investment funds, pension schemes and alternative investment funds, such as hedge funds.
We start by getting to know the fund, investigating its strategy and how it aims to achieve this, and finding out what it plans to do in the future. Then we work out what risks the fund faces, if they’re being addressed and the impact on the accounts.
What you'll do
You’ll have hands-on work straightaway. Joining a team working at a client site you’ll interview key contacts, verify the accuracy of data and raise any discrepancies or queries. You’ll then check investments against third-party documentation, looking at contributions and outgoings (distributions or pension benefits) and checking income generated by the fund.
It’s investigative work that often involves one-to-one meetings with financial controllers and finance directors, and you’ll need to tenacious and resilient to do it well.
As you gain experience, we’ll give you more responsibility for planning and executing audits as well as coaching junior colleagues.
Our culture
A huge diversity of clients. The chance to scrutinise how successful businesses work. They’re reasons enough to work in audit. But it's the team element that really makes a difference - and which convinces so many people to make audit their 'home'.
Everyone's input is valued - it's how we manage to deliver the quality of service that means clients return to us again and again.
And there's also the fact that we simply enjoy what we do and enjoy doing it well.
Training & development
You'll spend the first stage of your career focusing on Audit, learning about our business and developing key skills. You’ll devote over 35% of your first year and 15% of the second to formal development - building your business, personal and technical skills and studying for the ACA professional qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW) or the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS). These studies are rigorous and demanding - but we'll be right behind you, giving you full financial support and access to first-class tuition.
What’s more, you'll continually apply the knowledge you pick up at college to your work - reinforcing your learning and giving you an edge in the exam hall.
After your initial training, you'll have the chance to broaden your experience. You might decide to investigate other areas of Insurance and Investment Management, Assurance, different clients, project work or even another part of the firm.
Whatever you do, you'll take on more responsibility - maybe supervising team members of your own. There's a good chance that by then, you'll also be in the final stages of your professional qualification - so study will still feature. When you qualify, you'll be a well-rounded business adviser, enjoying a real career head-start.
About you
So what does it take to cut it in Investment Funds and Pensions Audit? Well, you'll need to be committed to delivering outstanding results for our clients, good with detail and highly numerate. Shrewd judgement, and people and teamwork skills are equally crucial.
You'll also need a 2.1 in any discipline plus 300 UCAS points (or equivalent).
Take advantage of simply the best all-round business education in Assurance.