Digital Audit

New technologies are emerging all the time, transforming how our clients do business and the way we audit them.

Join our Digital Audit practice to deliver a human-led, tech-powered audit, using emerging technologies and creating efficiencies with innovative solutions.

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Working in Digital Audit as a graduate

You’ll develop a strong understanding of the role that technology plays in the modern day audit and how new technologies are deployed and controlled within business. We have two graduate pathways into Digital Audit, neither of which include studying for a professional qualification.

Instead you'll follow a structured training curriculum which will allow you to develop the deeper technical and data skills required as a technology auditor, in addition to learning fundamental accounting concepts that you'll utilise when supporting audit engagements. Our Digital Audit pathway focuses on how we audit our client’s technology and our second pathway Digital Audit Advanced Analytics focuses on the use of technology and data analytics on the audit.

Digital Audit pathway

This pathway will allow you to specialise in the technology aspect of the audit. You’ll develop a deep technology understanding through a structured training programme, which will be required as a technology auditor in addition to learning fundamental accounting concepts that you’ll utilise when supporting audit engagements. You’ll be checking IT systems to ensure they’re appropriately controlled by management and checking that the data produced is accurate, highlighting and questioning any differences. It's investigative work where you’ll regularly speak with clients, in-person or collaboratively through technology to engage in your work.

Digital Audit Advanced Analytics

In our Digital Audit Advanced Analytics programme, you’ll develop a valuable skill set including data extraction, data engineering, and visualization as well as getting training in technology such as Python, Alteryx, Power Bi, SQL, Process Intelligence and Machine Learning. You’ll also gain a foundational understanding of accounting, financial reporting, object-oriented programming, database management and application development. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with clients across diverse industries, ranging from retail to media. This experience will help you develop a robust business acumen and valuable transferable soft skills. As a trusted specialist, you’ll advise senior stakeholders on ways to automate and reimagine audits using your technology skills to improve audit quality and efficiency.

The Digital Audit Experience

On both pathways you will join our passionate and diverse community of technologists who are driving quality and transformation in audits.

You’ll work with prestigious clients and develop the business and technical skills, knowledge and relationships needed to do well in a career that goes beyond the obvious. You’ll develop real insights into a client’s markets, people and management, as well as its finances and technology.

Our advancements in technology have ensured we're at the forefront of how audits are delivered. Utilising cutting edge technology we’ve developed the ability to stay connected wherever we are. We’ve challenged the assumption that all members of the audit team need to be based in the same place and in close proximity to our clients. Therefore depending on the team you join, you may find yourself travelling to client site or in some of our specialist teams, you may find that you connect virtually with your clients.

Joining as a graduate

You'll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.

Life in Digital Audit

In Digital Audit we work with cutting-edge technology to deliver high quality audits. You don’t need to be a technology expert to join though, we’ll provide all the training you’ll need through a combination of structured training pathways and Digital Academies to ensure you have the fundamental technology knowledge and accounting understanding required.

In our team you’ll have the opportunity to work across a whole host of national clients and get hands-on experience early on in your career with a wide variety of industry experience. We have a strong coaching culture that means you’ll be supported throughout your career to ensure personal and professional development. 

You’ll join teams that work together with flexibility, agility and intelligence to solve important problems for our clients. We draw on the breadth of our people’s experiences and relationships to provide clients with a tailored, risk-focused approach to the audit. Our people are passionate about doing the right thing and take great pride in Audit as a profession and in all of the work they do. 

We nurture intelligence, innovation and courage and embrace diversity so that everyone’s voice is heard. Our people think independently and are confident in sharing their point of view. We’re inclusive and create a safe space for others to challenge themselves, each other and management to deliver to the highest quality.

The future of Digital Audit

Technology is integral to our audit and underpins our end-to-end audit lifecycle, from risk assessment, supporting our understanding of your processes and controls, testing and how we coordinate and manage our audit globally.

We have committed to invest $1bn globally on our Next Generation Audit programme which will expand and scale our artificial intelligence offerings and help our clients reimagine their business through the power of generative AI. 

As we scale up to launch Next Generation Audit, our team is growing and so across the UK we’re investing an additional £30m annually in training, people and technology initiatives.