Summer Internship - Audit (2025) - Edinburgh - ref. n86325315
Prospects Edinburgh
We are looking for third year Accountancy degree (hons) students to assist us in auditing Scottish public sector annual reports and accounts during our summer period. Overall purpose of the role The final accounts period is one of our busiest times and will provide you with a wide variety of work experience that you can use to build your professional development and enhance your skills.
We’ve also been named one of the top 25 workplaces in Scotland and the UK’s tenth best accountancy workplace in the 2023 Best Companies awards.
Our 2025 Summer Internship Scheme will run from June to August 2025.
Our work covers about £57bn of public spending, almost 300 public sector accounts, and the services and projects that affect all people and communities in Scotland.
As well as what we do, how we do it is integral to delivering our vision and critical to our wellbeing and our organisational success.
We put our organisational values of equality, independence, innovation, integrity and respect at the heart of everything we do.
This will help you stand out when looking for career opportunities upon graduation. What’s in it for you?
A summer internship with Audit Scotland will give you valuable work experience with fantastic benefits, including:- The potential to fast track to the assessment centre stage of our graduate trainee scheme upon successful completion of the internship
- The opportunity to enhance teamworking and communication skills through client interaction and working across different audit teams
- Travel opportunities through working across a range of audit clients and sectors
- Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
- Supportive colleagues available to help day to day
- Advanced training on our systems and software to help you feel comfortable upon arrival
- Valuable public sector audit experience that will make your CV stand out There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us.
We offer a rewarding place to work, a supportive and open culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities.
Benefits include 42 days of annual leave including public holidays, an attractive local government pension scheme with 17.6% employer contributions, personal development allowances and flexible working hours.We’ve also been named one of the top 25 workplaces in Scotland and the UK’s tenth best accountancy workplace in the 2023 Best Companies awards.
Our 2025 Summer Internship Scheme will run from June to August 2025.
If you are ambitious and have a passion for helping to improve public services in Scotland, we would love to hear from you.
You will need:- To be a third-year accountancy student on track for an honours degree
- A minimum of National 5 Grade C or GCSE Grade 4/C (or equivalent) in both Maths and English
- Strong written communication skills
- A good understanding of financial accounting modules completed at university
- To have completed at least one auditing module at university by the end of your third year
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to work well in a team
- Self-awareness and the confidence to work using initiative
- Disciplined and organised with good project management skills
- Available to work through June to August 2025 We are Audit Scotland.
Our vision is that public money is well spent to meet the needs of Scotland's people.
To achieve this, we support the Auditor General for Scotland and the Accounts Commission to provide clear, independent and objective assurance on how effectively public money is being managed and spent.Our work covers about £57bn of public spending, almost 300 public sector accounts, and the services and projects that affect all people and communities in Scotland.
As well as what we do, how we do it is integral to delivering our vision and critical to our wellbeing and our organisational success.
We put our organisational values of equality, independence, innovation, integrity and respect at the heart of everything we do.
We employ around 340 staff in a wide variety of roles, working from our main offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and through other locations across Scotland.
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