Audit Placement Student

Position: Audit Placement Student September 2026

Are you a self-motivated, hardworking, ambitious person looking for your next challenge? If you are, and you’re looking to join a national operation with international reach, then we have a great role for you, based at our Nottingham office on Park Row.

Our firm

The UHY Hacker Young Group is a leading network of chartered accountants with 22 offices spanning England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also a founding member of UHY International, our Top 20 global network, which has over 318 offices in all major global business jurisdictions.

We are a people-first business, and we recognise that you, and the rest of our team, are essential to deliver on our purpose of helping you prosper, whether you are a client, a member of our team, or part of our wider community. We want you to be challenged, to learn and grow while you’re with us, to have fun in the workplace, work with like-minded individuals, and deliver great services.

Are you looking to join a team that:

• believes in and delivers a culture of work-life balance, with a focus on wellbeing?
• provides a clear career framework and routes to progress?
• understands the importance of rewarding and retaining high calibre teams?
• delivered 20% growth in the last 12 months?

If so we would love to hear from you.

Role overview

• Deliver an external audit service to a range of clients in a range of sectors.
• Assist the audit lead in the planning and completion of audit work.

As a placement student, your typical daily duties will include;

• Auditing client's financial information;
• Auditing a client’s financial information, purchase and sales invoices;
• Auditing bank balances and bank statements;
• Reviewing client payroll records for accuracy, reviewing VAT records, auditing a client’s
  fixed assets and auditing a client’s debtors and creditors;
• Ensure sound knowledge of a client and its industry by researching background information and useful publications;
• Develop communication skills and build relationships with key stakeholders;
• Develop and apply technical knowledge gained from studies and on the job experience;
• Attend in-house technical training as required;

Ensure timesheets are completed on a weekly basis.

Working arrangements

The working week: 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday) to be worked from 09:30-17:30 / 09:00 – 17:30 with flexibility of hours to meet specific work demands.

Location: Your principle work based is our Nottingham office.

At UHY it's all about you - our benefits

• Study Package, including TOIL (Time off in Lieu) (TOIL up to AM, Study support only if agreed)
• 31 days holiday (including bank holidays & Compulsory Christmas shutdown counted as part of holiday entitlement )
• The ability to ‘purchase’ extra days leave in salary sacrifice
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Season ticket loan (for travel)
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity pay
• Pension Scheme arrangements
• Employee discount platform – UHY Plus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our wellbeing portal

Person specifications - Desirable experience and skills Academic requirements

• Minimum A-levels, B,B,C grades (or equivalent and excluding general studies);
• Grade B/6 or above in GSCE Maths and English Language (GSCE or equivalent).

Persistence

• Ability to work hard to complete near term tasks;
• Energy, stamina and persistence in achieving longer-term objectives.

Reliability

• Conscientious and properly completes tasks
• Willing to put the needs and interests of others (including “work”) before personal needs
• Maintains standards and completes tasks in difficult circumstances
• Remains stable and self-controlled under stress

Initiative and adaptability

• Willingness to adapt to and change in new circumstances
• Ability to identify new or different ways of doing things
• Active in taking steps to make sure things happen

Learning

• Consistent or improving record of academic attainment over time
• Application to “weak” or “disliked” subjects and courses
• High levels of achievement over a diverse range of subjects
• Learning well in a difficult or challenging environment

Leadership

• Success when in a position of responsibility, ensuring that a team or group works together and achieves its purpose; or contributing to a group in a similar way
• Success when in a position of…