Company:  Audit Scotland

Role:  Graduate Trainee Auditor

Locations:  Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen

Salary:  30,166

Application Deadline: 12th January 2025

Start Date: June/October 2025

Apply here:  https://link.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/e4ss

Who is Audit Scotland:  

• Audit Scotland 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.  
• Their 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.  
• Audit Scotland currently have trainee opportunities available across Scotland. Trainees can expect to work a mixture of at home, in the office and travel to client sites.

What is the Role: 

Audit Scotland’s Graduate Trainee Scheme includes financial support to become a qualified Chartered Accountant with ICAS. You will get a prestigious, internationally recognised qualification, whilst being involved in varied and interesting work, auditing public bodies in Scotland. You will also be supported to complete a personal development programme aimed at enhancing your career prospects in Audit Scotland.   

As a Graduate Trainee Auditor, you will help your team to plan and deliver quality audit work  across a range of public sector bodies, and in doing so, you will contribute to the development of  various audit reports and other outputs. 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Undertaking a programme of training with a view to becoming a professionally qualified Accountant.
• Contributing to the development of appropriate audit approaches, audit tools and techniques. 
• Undertaking audit assignments in accordance with professional standards and the Code of Audit Practice. 
• Contributing to the drafting of accurate, clear, and concise audit reports.  
• Identifying and developing relationships with key stakeholders. 

Person specification: 

• You’ll need to have achieved or be on track to achieve an honours degree or equivalent in  any subject.  
• A minimum of National 5 Grade C or GCSE Grade 4/C (or equivalent) in both Maths and  English. 
• You don’t need to be an accountancy graduate or have achieved a specific grade in your honours degree to join Audit Scotland. Past trainees come from a variety of backgrounds and have studied a range of degree subjects, either joining straight from university or later in their careers.   

Why Should You Apply: 

• Gain a prestigious, internationally recognised qualification .
• Competitive starting salary, plus bonuses for passing exams first time and salary increments as you progress through the qualification.
• 38 days holiday (inclusive of 8 floating public holidays), 4 fixed public holidays, flexi-time and exam leave.
• Career development and training opportunities.
• Attractive local government pension scheme (17.6% employer contributions).

The Application Process: 

• Stage 1 – After the application closing date, you will be asked to complete a short online verbal and numerical test.  
• Stage 2 – If you are successful after this stage, you will be invited to complete an online simulation assessment in the form of an analysis exercise.  
• Stage 3 – Candidates successful at this stage will be invited to a final stage interview. The interview will be competency based and Audit Scotland will be looking for you to demonstrate evidence of the competencies required for the role.   

Candidates requiring sponsorship: 

• Please note Audit Scotland is unable to provide sponsorship to candidates for this role under the Skilled Worker visa category as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria will not be met.    
• Candidates must demonstrate that they have the right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the Trainee Auditor employment and training which typically lasts 54 months.  
• This could be from a visa granting permission to work in the UK independently (for example: a dependent or ancestry visa or settled status). 

Don’t miss out on working for one of the top 25 workplaces in Scotland and apply below: https://link.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/e4ss