Placement Year Vacancy at PwC

Work on real projects, learn about our business and get exposure to a prestigious client list. These six- and eleven-month placements in Assurance, Tax or Financial Advisory are for students who need to complete a placement as part of their degree. You could sit a selection of professional accounting exams and leave with a full-time job offer.

You'll work alongside graduate trainees and experienced professionals on everyday projects. So you’ll get a good insight into working life at PwC. Our 11-month business placements start in September and are available at offices across the UK. While our six-month placement starts in February in London.

It doesn't matter what degree course you're studying, but you must have a good academic record and be able to show how you've used your initiative and team-working skills. You should also have thoroughly researched the area of PwC you'd like to join.

Real responsibility

You'll do the same work and benefit from the same training as our first-year graduate recruits, contributing to a range of client projects as part of a highly skilled team. The work can be intense at times – but you’ll have plenty of fun, not forgetting competitive rewards, along the way.

Experiencing life inside one of the world's largest professional services firms is a fantastic way to build your commercial awareness and interpersonal skills. Nothing can beat on-the-job experience for developing skills and you'll get plenty of it, both within PwC and on-site at clients. But we'll also steer you towards appropriate training courses if there's anything you feel you'd like to work on.

What’s more, you’ll boost your ability to soak up complex business information, as well as your professional confidence – factors that will make a real difference to your last year at university.

Get ahead on the professional qualification front

Hopefully your placement will be the first step towards a full-time career with us. In some areas, you may even be able to start working for your professional qualifications during the programme, returning to complete your exams once you've graduated.

For example, if you do an eleven-month business placement in a region offering ICAEW training, you can study and sit some of your professional exams. We’ll support you through these, giving you a head start when it comes to qualifying as a Chartered Accountant.

About you

An undergraduate on a four-year course that includes a placement, you’ll have a 300 UCAS tariff or equivalent and be on course for a 2:1.

On the PwC Insight Business Placement you’ll get a comprehensive feel for the challenges of professional services, work with prestigious clients and benefit from superb learning and development opportunities.

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