Chartered Accountant & Career Coach | Big 4
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For those of you who are unfamiliar with busy season, this is essentially the time of year where external auditors are at their busiest. It is the year-end period of an external audit where there can be tight deadlines to be met. This is where you will hear the horror stories about working into the …
I probably sound like a broken record at this point but last Thursday was my first Thursday “off” from posting blogs after 53 weeks! You would think I might have decided to take it easy now that I will only be posting fortnightly but oh no, I instead did my first ever careers talk. Through …
Earlier this year, I came across an internal secondment opportunity within Transaction Services (TS). If you are not familiar with TS or what they do, I will of course be sharing this information with you. This six-month secondment is not something I went out looking for but it did grab my attention. After hearing more, …
Before starting my role as an external auditor, I did not expect to use Microsoft Excel in my job as much as I do (almost daily). Excel is used to document the majority of testing from the audit side. However, our clients within the finance team also tend to use Excel for their own calculations …
After interviewing for jobs since the age of sixteen, I would like to think I am actually pretty good at interviews by this point. I have worked my way through many roles: a drinks maker, an events promoter, a business analyst, a secondary school Maths teacher, to finally in September 2018, landing myself an external …
Do you want to know more about a career in external audit? I am currently an external audit assistant manager at a Big Four firm and wanted to pull this blog together to give you an insight into the role. Before I get into the details, you should know that I started my graduate scheme …