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The world of risk is changing. Today’s business environment is different. More complex. More connected. More volatile. While this environment makes it much harder to predict where new risks will come from, we believe that it represents an opportunity for businesses to transform and innovate. We work with our clients to protect and strengthen every aspect of their business; from people to performance, systems to strategy and business plans to business resilience. Through our invaluable insights and independent assurance we can help our clients to discover and unlock real value.

Our capabilities, scale and ability to bring together leading-edge specialists to tackle the toughest risk situations helps us create a sustainable competitive advantage. But it’s our people, their curiosity and the inclusive, collaborative culture that sets us apart. Difference makes a difference and individuality is celebrated and embraced. We’re investing in growth and innovation. Our people are supported by the right tools and technology to strengthen our business and stay at the cutting-edge of new techniques. We nurture bold and dynamic behaviours to push the boundaries and be truly distinctive in the market.

Control, Deals, Accounting and Risk (CDAR)
The world is becoming increasingly complex, technology is disrupting almost every aspect of how organisations operate and the pace of change is unprecedented. Discover your potential as a Risk specialist.

Working in CDAR
Organisations have to be more aware of, and responsive to, the risks and opportunities facing them. In the initial years of this graduate pathway, you'll be deeply involved in understanding and assessing a client’s business processes – both operational, regulatory and financial. This will include their IT environment, supply chain, deals environment, accounting frameworks and reporting structures, identifying and reviewing the risks and providing recommendations to further enhance their design and operation.

The CDAR Experience
You'll be part of a practice that among other services deals with corporate governance, internal audit, business resilience, commercial, financial and reporting risk and controls, major capital projects, regulatory compliance, deals, structuring, accounting and reporting, You’ll develop in-depth core business advisory skills and understanding of different controls and accounting frameworks through exposure to a variety of businesses and industries, from large multinationals and government departments to new and growing businesses.

Programme

Our graduate training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You'll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the network, and throughout your career.

What you'll do

Alongside our internal training offerings, you’ll gain a blend of commercial, technical, financial and data, governance and accounting experiences working with iconic clients from either Financial Services or Commercial & Government industry sectors. In some teams you may get the opportunity to specialise in an industry from early in your career, however most of our joiners will work across multiple sectors from the beginning.

– You’ll quickly develop your communication skills and business acumen through interaction with a wide range of stakeholders at client sites, where you’ll be sharing results of your work and recommendations.
– You’ll be at the spearhead of developing technologies, learning how to utilise these as part of the projects you work on including process mining and data wrangling.
– You’ll deploy solutions from pioneering Internal Audit tools to applications enabling us to provide insight to clients on how their Risk Management processes compare to their peers.
– You’ll also have the opportunity to support our risk transformation teams developing innovative technology based solutions to solve the problems our clients face.

You’ll also have the opportunity to support our risk transformation teams developing innovative technology based solutions to solve the problems our clients face. What’s more, you’ll be able to join a number of technology communities deploying problem-centric thinking and driving awareness and upskilling of the different technologies that we have developed.

What you'll gain

We aim to ensure that you’ll gain a breadth of experience across a range of different public and private sector clients and your interests and abilities are kept in mind, so you can be sure to work in teams where you can contribute your best and develop your skills at every turn. There’s a high level of flexibility throughout the work we do, and you’ll be given the freedom to take on new tasks to challenge yourself.

As part of your role, the firm will be supporting you in completing a discretionary ICAEW CFAB Qualification, this is to help build basic knowledge skills at the certificate level exams to allow you to build the skills for your role. Further opportunities on any qualifications or accreditations that are relevant to your ongoing career development may be considered throughout your career at PwC (e.g. project management or contract management, progression on the full ACA which is subject to the firm's PQ policies).

What you'll need

You'll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.

We know that the skills and experiences you develop with us will stay with you throughout your career. So join PwC. We'll help you reach your full potential.

Do you need a work permit?
Please take some time to confirm your eligibility for the role. We welcome applications from all candidates but there are restrictions to some areas of our business and some points you should note on our website.

Please note that PwC is unable to sponsor any candidates for some roles as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria will not be satisfied. For a list of these roles, please review the ‘Important information’ section of the work permit page on our website.

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.