Overall Rating
4.3 /5
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4/5
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Overview of Role
4/5
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Skills Development
3.6/5
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Structure and Support
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
4/5
MY role includes testing balances such as Cash, Receivables, Payables along with a large audit team. You work is supervised to ensure that you are coached and have relevant skills and knowledge to perform the work. My role also includes attending college to achieve my professional qualification as a chartered accountant.
To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
4/5
I have enjoyed my programme over the years, as it has given me audit experience on some of the largest companies in the world, including UK FTSE100 businesses. This is experience that you cannot easily receive. I have also been given sufficient time away from work to work towards my professional qualification.
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
4/5
I have learnt and developed the following skills:
Timing - Due to time pressures of audits, you quickly learn to select which tasks require the most attention and which can be come back to.
Team work - Working on a audit is a large team effort, due to the levels of review required.
Timing - Due to time pressures of audits, you quickly learn to select which tasks require the most attention and which can be come back to.
Team work - Working on a audit is a large team effort, due to the levels of review required.
Structure and Support
How well organised/structured is your programme?
4/5
Our programme stats slow in the first year of the role. As a school leaver you focus more on work than exams to get a stronger base knowledge before sitting exams. These exams then start to pick up in your 2nd to 4 year at a similar speed to graduates.
How much support do you receive from your employer?
4/5
EY provides us with audit training that is relevant to our skill level. This means that we learn the basics at the start on how to audit and the skills required. Equally, EY does provides us with time away from work to focus on our exams and our professional qualifications.
How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
4/5
EY uses multiple training provides. The provide we use, Kaplan Financial, are no longer used for new students joining EY. Kaplan have got academic support during working hours to focus on any questions and queries. We also attend classes of just EY students when studying towards our exams, meaning you know your classmates.
How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
4/5
Most of the exams you sit have some links to the work provided.
For example Financial Accouching and Reporting And audit and assurance relate to my work in audit. However, there are exams that need to be completed by do not relate to our work, such as management accounting or tax.
For example Financial Accouching and Reporting And audit and assurance relate to my work in audit. However, there are exams that need to be completed by do not relate to our work, such as management accounting or tax.
Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
2/5
EY does have Health EY, which focuses on extra curricular actives for employees. These include things like sports clubs as well as other clubs. While, there are some options available these are not advertised much and could be extended further. If you were not looking for a club, you would not come accross it
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend EY to a friend?
Yes
Why?
EY have provided great experience along with a competitive salary. Many people I knows work do not provide as much time away from work to focus on our exams. Therefore EY has a good time schedule allowing us to focus on work as well as our professional qualification to qualify on time
What tips or advice would you give to others applying to EY?
I would suggest reading about your role is a good idea. This means looking into what audit really is and use examples such as businesses that EY audits. This shows that you have prepared and gone out your way to prepare for an interview. An understanding of accounting is not required when first starting
