Audit Graduate (ACA) - Lancaster - January 2025

About us

At Azets people lie at the heart of what we do. Collaboration and sharing empowers us all to achieve our purpose of making our colleagues, clients and communities lives better every day. With the everchanging economic landscape and advances in technology, there has never been a more exciting time to start a career in accountancy.

As an Azets Trainee, you will be supported throughout your Azets career and will learn from the vast expertise held by your colleagues. Whether you're a school or college leaver, a graduate ready to make your mark, or someone seeking a new challenge, Azets is the perfect launchpad for your journey.

We are committed to offering development opportunities to all of our staff, from early-stage Trainees through to Senior Partners. As a trainee, you will get the opportunity to pursue a professional qualification specific to the business area you will be working in. We believe in nurturing your potential and setting you on the path to success.

The role

Our Audit and Assurance department is the largest of our service offerings at Azets, with many clients of varying sizes in our portfolio across a broad range of industries. We have developed our audit procedures to be specific and tailored to individual client needs, making this unique to each business that we work with.

The service we provide has a meaningful impact not only on our clients and the communities we serve, but also the wider business and audit community. Our team of audit & assurance specialists undergo continuous training to ensure they are fully up to date with legislation. Our clients are advised by local points of contact who understand each specific business and their needs, whilst benefitting from the backing of a large, national team, with broad experience and expertise.

As an Audit Associate, you will play a key part in the success our Audit and Assurance department. This will begin with you building your auditing skills and knowledge by providing assistance on statutory audits, which will involve applying your expanding technical knowledge to real life scenarios, problem solving, analysing data and presenting your findings.

This role will involve a combination of working in the local office and at client premises. Collaboration with fellow associates, audit seniors, managers and partners will be an essential part of your role. The tasks you can expect to work on with the team will evolve and develop over time, but in the first year of your role you can expect to be involved in the following:

• Attending internal audit planning meetings
• Working with clients to gain an understanding of their business and internal processes to aid planning for audit testing
• Performing regular audit testing to provide assurance over financial statements
• Working with clients to obtain specific audit evidence required
• Using our audit technologies to analyse client financial information, checking for areas of risk and error
• Attending client stock counts to verify physical assets
• Reviewing financial statements prepared either by the client or Azets team
• Communicating regularly and effectively with clients, both in person and virtually
• Sending queries to the clients to provide evidence of these amounts and reconciling them with what should be expected.
• Scheduling regular catchups with both the client and your team to ensure you are working towards the audit signing deadline.
• Communicating with your seniors when there is a difference between evidence provided by the client and data stated on the financial statement provided.

As you advance in your role, you will get the opportunity to mentor new trainees and provide them with high class on-the-job training. Additionally, as your confidence grows so will your project management skills as you work to meet deadlines and budget constraints for clients.

Qualification

We have created a first-class training and development programme and, by starting your career at Azets, in addition to the comprehensive on the job training, you will also be given all the support you need to complete a professional qualification, including college and/or study days, mentoring and a designated buddy.

We offer a range of different qualification pathways at Azets which are determined by the role you are applying for. The qualification that will be undertaken for this position will be the ACA.

Application Requirements

To get the job that you’ll love, you will:

• Need the right to work in the UK from your start date
• Be on track to achieve or have already achieved a minimum 2:2 in your undergraduate degree

For us, the personal attributes of each of our employees are what makes us authentic in the marketplace. We look for people who can collaborate with peers but can also bring their own voice to the table. We want people who are proactive in their approach and respectful of other people’s opinions. We are looking for someone who wants to be more than just a team member, but who wants to join a family of likeminded individuals.

Benefits

At Azets, we understand that whilst job satisfaction and success is important, you should be rewarded for the work you do.

Our benefits include 23 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), proficient & adaptable working, Employee referral bonuses, Lead incentive schemes and much more.