Professional Services Assured Skills Academy

• Are you interested in changing your career, utilising your transferable skills, reskilling or upskilling? If so, PwC’s Professional Services Assured Skills Academy is for you. 

  If you successfully complete the academy, you’ll gain industry-recognised qualifications and potentially get a job offer to join PwC’s Belfast Team. 

  If you successfully complete the academy and are offered a job with PwC you will;

  • Have the flexibility to work in our brand new Merchant Square office, an exceptional space where people want to work not a place they have to be, as well as working from home
  • Depending on the specific business area you will have the opportunity to work with global clients; researching, reviewing and collating documents and reports, carrying out compliance checks, monitoring a range of financial transactions, accounts preparation and finance and/or managing customers and projects
  • Feel empowered to collaborate and continuously develop
  • Be well rewarded and have access to a range of benefits

  Training

  The Professional Services Assured Skills Academy is an eight-week intensive training course and as restrictions ease, training is likely to be a hybrid of onsite and online learning delivered by Belfast Met. 

  Throughout the eight weeks you will be provided with the skills and confidence to prepare you for one of our roles across our diverse range of business areas including; Financial Crime, Customer Management, Legal Operations, Finance Solutions, Compliance Testing, Project Management Office (PMO) or Business Operations. Those selected for the Academy will receive practical, real world training in the following areas:

  • Project management
  • Business Analysis
  • Communication and presentation skills
  • Commercial awareness
  • Microsoft and Google tools
  • CIMA Fundamentals in Financial Accounting

  If you successfully complete the course, you'll be guaranteed a job interview with PwC where our success rate from final interview to job offer is over 90%. 

  Who can apply?

  You will need to:

  • be at least 18 years old
  • be eligible to work in the UK
  • have a Level 5 qualification (HND or Foundation degree) AND some experience in an office/banking/professional environment OR a 2:2 degree in any discipline

  How to apply

  Apply online by 12:00 noon Monday 8 November 2021.

  As part of the application process you'll need to complete all questions and complete an on-line psychometric assessment.

  Interview and training dates

  • Information Session Monday 15 November 2021
  • Video Interviews will be held 16, 17, and 18 November 2021
  • Training will take place from 6 December to 11 February 2022

  Company Information

  PwC in Northern Ireland is the largest firm of professional advisors in the region as well as home to some of PwC’s global centres of excellence. Opportunities are available in PwC’s Operate which delivers large operational and managed service solutions for a diverse range of clients across the globe to meet regulatory, risk and compliance challenges. 

   

  Further information

  For more information on this academy or to receive updates on new academy opportunities as they arise, contact the Department for the Economy – Employer Skills Branch.

  To find out how your information will be managed, you can view the privacy notice for Assured Skills(external link opens in a new window / tab).