Job Search: PwC Insight Day in Leeds

I continue to narrate about my adventures during my job search. This time I was lucky enough to accomplish 2 objectives: I visited rather interesting Leeds City and got information about PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recruitment process.

As a result of PwC Insight Day I’ve understood that generally htis kind of event are useful in case:

·     you are graduate and want to enter graduate recruitment process;

·  you are experienced professional, but just want to get some insight about local office atmosphere and type of people you are expected to work with.

Generally PwC employees performed rather diligently for their grades. PwC associates (two-three years in audit practice firm) tried their best to give potential employees the idea of what they are doing in different departments of firm and were open to for questions.

What I found interesting is that PwC has established separate department for testing controls – “Risk Assurance”. Usually in audit firms we have separate department specialized in IT controls and applications. Risk assurance people in PwC deal with all kind controls, including manual. The risk assurance associate told me that they might even test manual controls for audit team in usual audit engagements. However, the ultimate goal of setting up this department, as I think, was to have trained employees specialized in compliance engagements, e.g. SOX.

In addition, I liked Leeds! It is a very cute town with nice architecture and great industrial history. Generally, the nice place to live and work.