Advancing Social Mobility, Operate, Belfast, 2025

Compliance Testing

Our Compliance Testing team works with global clients to test and monitor compliance across a wide range of regulatory, technology and operational risk areas. Our team supports many of the firm’s leading clients, largely within the banking and financial services sector, on a wide range of global and complex audit engagements.

Our Compliance Testing Team focuses on Assurance Controls Testing, Compliance Testing & Monitoring, Technology Risk Compliance and Regulatory Compliance, providing specialist process and controls support to all business units across our UK firm.

Compliance Testing provides specialist knowledge and expertise to help our global clients manage multiple projects, implementing and delivering solutions, in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

Customer Management

Operate’s customer management team help our clients deal with complaints, as well as run remediation programmes where we put right what’s gone wrong. Whether in response to a regulator’s instructions, or because of high volumes of complaints, our redress teams are often quickly deployed to deal with financial services scenarios.

Business Operations

Business Operations provides a range of services to the wider PwC firm worldwide and to our clients. Through the provision of immigration support and employee screening services, our team make sure our clients can onboard their employees and comply with immigration rules quickly.

Legal Operations

When regulations or the market changes, organisations sometimes need to update the contracts they hold. Operate’s Legal Operations team combines technology and regulatory expertise to help our clients ‘repaper’.

Financial Crime Operations

Our customer onboarding and lifecycle team ensure that our customers comply with Anti-Money Laundering and Know your Client (KYC) regulations. This includes during the onboarding process and when regulations have changed meaning that banks have to undertake checks on current customers.

Enablement

Enablement is an operations function dedicated to the smooth running of Operate. We are responsible for making sure we’ve the right number of people with the right skills to support our client projects. We focus on ways to provide a consistent, positive experience to our Operate team members by organising events, sharing news, creating opportunities for people to connect and learn more about the business. We do all this while also taking action to make sure we remain commercially focussed and mitigate our risks.

Cloud Digital and Data

Cloud Digital and Data is a multidisciplinary technology team within Operate dedicated to delivering and managing solutions across all lines of service. Our focus is on solving your problems, using specialist technologies such as automation, artificial intelligence and data analytics to create efficiencies and drive revenue growth within your business unit. We also have experienced IT project managers, developers and testers who help implement large technology change programmes.

Programme

During this three-day paid programme you’ll get an insight into what a career at PwC could look like, you’ll meet mentors and buddies who’ll represent the variety of opportunities available across PwC. You’ll meet some of our colleagues to hear about their own personal career journeys, as well as from some of our networks focussed on Inclusion and Diversity. Through interactive sessions the programme will help you to develop confidence in a business setting and encourage you to bring your whole self to the workplace. At PwC, we nurture an environment where our people can be the best they can be.

Our Advancing Social Mobility Programme will be a 3-day paid programme taking place 14-16 April 2025. You will need to be in the UK to complete this programme.

What you'll do

Life at Operate is fast-paced and client-focused. It is also highly rewarding, giving you the chance to work with some of the biggest global brands and develop yourself through our unique skills academy. If you’re a natural problem solver, capable of using your judgement to help our clients stay on the right side of regulation.

You’ll:

• Experience working on-site at our clients’ offices or at a PwC location performing operational and implementation activities
• Support clients to navigate complex operational and regulatory activities
• Undergo continuous development through the Skills Academy at Operate.

What you'll gain

By completing the programme, you'll have the opportunity to be considered for a subsequent Summer Internship 2026 role in the location and business area which you've done the programme. Many of our summer internship participants go on to receive graduate role offers.

What you'll need

Eligibility for Advancing Social Mobility in Business Programme

• First-year student in a three-year degree or second-year in a four-year degree
• On track to pass an undergraduate degree
• Attended a state school or college between the ages of 11-16
• Main household earner had a lower socio-economic background at age 14, or you were eligible for free school meals

Important Notes
Eligibility is assessed using your application and Equal Opportunities form responses, as advised by Access Accountancy. - If you choose "prefer not to say" on these questions, we may not confirm your eligibility and consider your application. - This information is confidential and only reviewed by specific teams for eligibility. - We welcome students from all backgrounds. If you don't meet the criteria, consider applying to our Women in Business or Black Talent in Business programmes, or join our virtual events for more opportunities with PwC

When to apply

Once you have submitted your application you'll have seven days to complete the online test, this is the first stage of our recruitment process.

Applications for this role may close early should we receive a high volume of interest so we recommend prompt application to avoid disappointment.