RSM

Often, you will work at a client's site, testing key sections of a clients financial accounts. You will work within a small team, approaching the audit together. You will ensure all their accounts are aligned with financial legislation, and no errors are...

In my day-to-day role, I am responsible for conducting audits and preparing reports for a range of clients. This involves assessing their risk exposure and evaluating the effectiveness of their mitigation strategies. I use various methods to carry out the...

Assisting the more experienced members of the team. Completely different procedures during planning, through understanding the company and its controls, during exectution, which is the main testing during an audit, and completion, which is checking the a...

Your day starts at 9am and you will usually be working on one client per day, which you will work on in teams of around 2-5. Employees are given a 1 hour unpaid lunch break, and are usually allowed multiple tea/coffee breaks throughout the day before fini...

My role involves targeting businesses for potential buy side and sell side M&A transactions, justifying valuations of businesses and identifying buyers for businesses. The majority of my work takes place in the early stages of sell side acquisition adviso...

Day to day responsibilities include: performing analysis in excel on a company's financials, highlighting any key trends / issues; assisting in drafting question and answer packs which are used to aid discussion with Management surrounding their financial...

Visiting client sites, verifying financial documents, documenting the nature of the business, sampling, lots of excel, building client relationships, accounting exams for graduates.

At the beginning it was mainly training on different aspects relating Audit and Bookkeeping. Most of the time is cleansing list provided by clients, extract populations out of them and agreed those populations to the documentation provided by the client....

As an Internal Auditor, we perform audits of public and private sector clients, reviewing their internal controls and providing them with risk assurance in a specific area. This involves a range of different areas and clients, and involves on site visits.

Initially (first 2/3 months), you're are mainly completing training, shadowing senior auditors on client calls and gradually taking on more and more responsibility in terms of report writing and undertaking testing. But I've found this process really rewa...

Completing and managing the progress of tax returns

I worked in private client tax and corporation tax (6 months each) in both I was primarily doing tax compliance and tax advisory work for a range of clients (individuals, trusts, estates, individual companies, large multinational groups of companies and m...

My typical day at RSM involved working as part of an audit team to conduct sampling of balance sheet and income statement areas, which followed with testing of these areas. Discussion with clients on their controls and ensuring the financial statements ar...

Your primary role and goal as an audit assistant is to produce accurate and meticulous financial statements for the clients you work with. As a placement student your day to day tasks heavily alternate whilst you learn to conduct all the different tests i...

My role was within the Financial Due Diligence team. This is a stage in the Mergers and Acquisition deal process which assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a business, and identifies areas that may impact the headline price of a business. On a day-to...

Performing audit tests to understand client processes and relevant documentation provided to complete and ensure the information in the financial statements are true and correct.

Helping with all stages of the audit - planning, execution and completion. Making sure companies aren’t committing fraud by changing figures on their financial statements. Testing samples of Invoices and documents

I was in 2 different teams. The first was Employer Solutions where they are split into Employment Tax, Expatriate Tax and, Share Schemes. I worked in teh team during January, busy season, so there were lots of expat tax returns to be done. There was the o...

I worked previously in corporate tax where I would produce corporate tax computations and assist in client queries. I now work in VAT where I assist on VAT advisory queries and help with the onboarding client due diligence process.

My day involves meetings with managers and other internal auditors to plan upcoming audits and discuss the scope of our work. I will then arrange meetings with client sponsors to make work arrangements and dig deeper into the processes at the company. I w...