Audit & Governance Careers Advice - April 2019

  • So You Want to Be a Data Scientist?

    Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 by CareersinCyber.comNo comments

    Published: 29 Apr 2019 Did you know that everything Internet-related generates data? A text message, a YouTube tutorial, checking LinkedIn, buying a saucepan off Amazon all generates data, and businesses use that data to gain valuable insights into everything from their customers to their productivity. But what is data without people who know what to do with it? Cue the Data Scientists. Typically ...

  • Internal Audit - 2019 Market Report

    Posted on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Various economic, political and regulatory headwinds continue to buffet the internal audit recruitment market. Here, we examine the factors that had the biggest impact on hiring last year, as well as predict key trends for 2019. Economic and regulatory drivers Economic and regulatory drivers Is UK economy recovering from shaky 2017? Uncertainty was perhaps the main theme running through our last ...

  • The Auditor Dossiers - Profile 4: Audit and Assurance Big 4 apprenticeship

    Posted on Monday, April 8, 2019 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Profile 4: Audit and Assurance Big 4 apprenticeship Name: Dalian Paul Age: early 20s Employer: EY, 2nd year ACA trainee, level 7 audit apprenticeship From Cornwall to Liverpool, Living the Dream – Audit Style When Dalian Paul qualifies as an ACA, in around 3½ years’ time, not only will he have dodged the dreaded student debt, he will have been earning for 5 years, visited around 50 different ...

  • Top Reasons Why Auditors Do Not Get the Job

    Posted on Monday, April 8, 2019 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    How often do you leave a job interview and wonder if you did enough to get the job? Candidates are left in the dark more than not as to what let them down, so we decided to shed some light on the ‘why’ factor when it comes to what interviewers are looking for. Accountants and auditors, we know, are numbers people. Speaking in facts and figures and technical terms that sound like a foreign ...

  • Accountancy and AI

    Posted on Friday, April 5, 2019 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    The conversation around AI and the impact machine learning and its robotic ilk is likely to have on our future careers is one that sparks uncertainty in most. The idea that a fundamental role like accounting could become computer generated is daunting, but the reality is this; while it’s true that automation is an undeniable factor in professional and industrial evolution, so too is the ...

  • Relocating Abroad: a Possibility for Every Auditor

    Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2019 by KPMG in Bermuda for CareersinAudit.com (Advertorial Feature)No comments

    If you’re considering relocating your career to a destination that combines sunshine, beautiful beaches and an abundance of career opportunities, then KPMG in Bermuda should be at the top of your shortlist. Brian Archibald made the leap from Scotland to Bermuda over four years ago and for him, the island lifestyle and KPMG in Bermuda community has created that elusive work-life balance that most ...