UK&I Audit Review

The internship was a really insightful experience which gives you a real change to learn about what work is available within EY. The work you do is work that is used for the client and not just simple admin tasks. It is a challenging six weeks but it is full of rewards and a big learning curve.

My colleagues were always thankful of the work I was perfoming and it was a great feeling when they signed your work off on your behalf - thus knowing that is was useful and worthwhile. Often you need to ask for work, and almost always they provide you with a task straight away, but just be proactive to make the most out of your six weeks.

The support system at EY is great. You are assigned a buddy, (someone who is a few years ahead of you in their career that you can chat to about anything) a counsellor, (someone who is available to ask any queries about the job and also who will collate your feedback) and in general you can speak to anyone about any issues your having.

Overall I would have liked to have been a bit busier. Some days there wasn’t much work for you to do, or it took a while for your colleague to send it over. However this wasn’t the majority of the time and for the most part the day was full on.

You get thrown into certain tasks during your internship. For example when working on a client site I sat down with the CFO and worked our way through a task that was needing done. Providing you show in your first few days you can handle this responsibility, the team is happy to give it to you.

As I study accountancy and finance as uni this was a perfect internship for me. It was a chance to work in the world of accounting (more specifically audit) and experience the reality. I’ll take the skills back to uni and hopefully they will aid me during my fourth year.

Very good. One of the main selling points of EY is their people and this is definitely true. It’s a very relaxed atmosphere in the sense that you can chat to anyone. I had chats with the partners right down to first year students. I felt like I could ask any question to anyone and there wasn’t anyone that didn’t fit this description.

Overall it was very good, we knew what we needed to achieve and and what to work on. The only improvement could be that teams could set out in advance what work is needing done, this isn’t easy but it would just mean that your time was used more effectively.

The firm were very good at taking the time to help in any issues you had when working on the jobs. One improvement would be the first week. We had an IT induction which I didn’t feel was useful. Instead they could get a member of the team to show you around, how to navigate around the EY IT etc.

If you manage to secure a summer internship, the chance of getting a graduate job is very high providing you impress during your six weeks and don’t do anything majorly wrong. They don’t expect your technical ability to be up to standard, but as long as your work attitude is positive then the job should come.

There were quite a few social events during the six weeks within the team. These involved a football game between two offices, drinks after work and pizza socials. Certainly if you joined the team there would always be chances to socialise after work. These were useful to get to know the team a bit better.

As I commuted from home it was fairly cheap for myself. I was out at client sites most days during my six weeks so I was busy driving to there. You get paid fuel money so EY are really good at making sure you don’t lose out depending on where you’re working.

EY have offices all over and they’re always in the main cities so there are plenty of nice places to go out and socialise. This will depend on where you stay but because they are in the city center, good pubs and restaurants will always be just around the corner.

Yes there were lots of chances to get involved with activities after work. These were usually social events such as drinks, in a pub or even in the boardroom. There were also pizza socials, sports events and during our first and last days we went bowling and to escape rooms.