Summer Internship Risk Consulting Birmingham

Type: Intern
Region: West Midlands

Job description

At Mazars we have a wide range of opportunities for you to gain experience in a firm that truly cares about your aspirations. Our business is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, and we are known for giving ambitious people early responsibility and exposure.

Are you a proactive and ambitious penultimate year university student looking to gain invaluable real-world experience in the dynamic world of accountancy and professional services?

About the internship

Spend your Summer in the City at Mazars with a three-week, paid internship in one of our service lines. Upon successful completion of this internship, you may have the opportunity to fast track to a graduate role in the same department.?

At Mazars, we celebrate individuality and thrive on teamwork. You’ll be inspired to shape your future career within professional and financial services, enhance your employability skills and gain exposure within one of our modern office settings.

During your time with us you’ll:?

• Gain exposure, enabling you with hands on experience within the Mazars environment.
• Participate in a full induction which will give you a great insight into life at Mazars and upskill you in preparation for your internship.
• Achieve a good understanding of the type of client facing work that takes place at Mazars.
• Participate in interactive skills sessions across numerous employability topics.
• Build your professional network within Mazars.
• Have the opportunity to fast track for a 2025 graduate trainee role in the same department as your internship.

About the team

The Advisory & Consulting Service Line is a rapidly growing, award winning, global group of successful teams working together to deliver the highest quality of work for our clients.??

You will join a team of 600+ innovative specialists across a variety of sectors including Financial Services, Industry & Services, and Public Services with consultative expertise in Risk & Management Consulting, Internal Audit, Actuarial and all aspects of the Tech & Digital space. Our Advisory teams are at the forefront of large international infrastructure projects, global M&A transactions, high-profile forensic investigations, business valuations, corporate restructuring and creditor advisory services; all with the aim of adding value to clients by finding solutions to a range of financial issues as one collaborative team.?

The Public and Social Sector Risk Consulting team offers internal audit, advisory and other assurance services across multiple organisations within the public & social sector. We provide our clients with clarity over the performance of their risk management processes and raise recommendations for improvement where required. Working in the public and social sector will enable you to meet and support like-minded individuals at your clients who really want to make a difference in society. You can directly contribute to supporting local communities and be involved with some of the biggest issues in society.?

Public and social sector organisations are extremely important, unique and interesting. At Mazars, we work with a wide variety of organisations across the range of sub-sectors set out later in this section. As we act independently to our clients, we play an important role in supporting public scrutiny, helping to hold organisations to account, support continual improvement and striving to make society a better place. You will have the opportunity to work across a wide range of clients within the public and social sector Risk Consulting team. Our team provide distinctive audit and advisory services across the following six sectors:?

Local government – We are among the top 4 firms providing internal, IT and contract audits as well as anti-fraud and corruption services to local government. The Apex Framework, delivered by Croydon Council and Mazars, provides local authorities with internal audit resources with over 40 local authorities and companies adopting the framework.?

Education – Education organisations we work with include universities, sixth form colleges, academies and schools. As part of the work we do, we complete specialist funding audits, data return and legislative reviews for our education clients, as well as wider audits around the student experience, apprenticeships, safeguarding and governance, to name a few.?

Central government – We work with a range of Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) of government, who deliver and manage public services, provide advice to government and develop regulation. ALBs therefore include organisations with very specific objectives, such as museums and galleries, research institutions and regulators. Internal audits that have been completed by Mazars trainees include managing collections of artworks, assessing the retail operations of gift shops, looking at grassroots sports funding across the UK, ensuring generators are held to account for managing sustainable fuel, assessing the diversity and inclusion aims of regulators and reviewing the arrangements for inspecting railways to help prevent/investigate accidents;?

Housing – Housing in general, and social housing in particular, is of significant focus within the UK. Mazars is the #1 provider of Internal Audit services to the social housing sector, operating across both England and Wales. We audit key risk areas such as fire safety, income collection and anti-social behaviour, providing consulting and assurance services to almost 100 clients;?

Police – We provide a range of internal audits to the Office of Police & Crime Commissioners and the associated Police Force. These organisations face various challenges and are very much in the political and media spotlight for the way in which they operate. Our work adds value to the organisations by providing assurance over key areas such as corporate services areas including Finance and HR to more operational areas such as Victim Services, Firearms Licensing and Seized Property.?

Charities – We provide internal audit and advisory services to a range of household name charities working across fields such as international conservation, care in the community and medical research funding. It’s a fascinating sector and offers you the opportunity to work with people with strong altruistic values and to feel as though you are really making a difference. There is also some unique audit work in this area that you don’t see elsewhere such as reviewing fundraising strategies and practices, raffles and lotteries, and volunteer management.?

What we are looking for

• Interpersonal skills; the ability to build client relationships with a foundation of trust and responsibility.?
• Analytical skills; the ability to think critically, research and solve problems.?
• Attention to detail and strong time-management skills.?
• Commitment to self-development & learning.?
• Affinity with our values; in particular, respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity.?
• Teamwork; the ability to function and contribute effectively as part of a high achieving team.?
• A penultimate undergraduate student or penultimate postgraduate student at a UK based university.
• We do not provide sponsorship for our Summer internships. However, you can apply if you are studying at a UK based university and hold a valid Student Visa for the duration of the internship.
• Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don’t always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self – academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed. We balance your academic results alongside the Mazars online assessment within our recruitment process to ensure that you will be successful in your role with us.?

Accepted degree subjects

Any

Additional job details

How to apply

Roles will be closed as soon as we find the right people, so to avoid disappointment we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Click Apply to start your application now. This job will be available on Prospects until 31 May 2024

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Closing date:  31 May 2024