Career Start - Audit Trade, Industries & Services - Autumn 2027

Key facts

What you bring

• You are nearing the completion of your degree or hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s in economics, (business) informatics, STEM, or a comparable field of study.
• You want to understand how companies represent their financial position and continuously deepen your knowledge in accounting, financial reporting, and auditing.
• You work meticulously, question information, and want to learn how to assess complex matters in a structured way.
• You communicate clearly, actively contribute to the team, and enjoy working with clients and international colleagues.
• You are eager to learn, open to digital work methods, and ready to take on responsibility.
• Excellent German and English language skills round off your profile.

Your tasks

• Audit financial statements: Audit consolidated and annual financial statements, balance sheets, income statements, and internal controls, thereby creating trust in financial reporting.
• Analyse companies: Analyse financial data and business processes, identify audit risks, and develop an understanding of the economic contexts behind the numbers.
• Discover industries: Learn about different companies, markets, and business models, and build a broad economic understanding early on.
• Use data purposefully: Apply data analysis, digital audit methods, and AI-assisted tools to identify anomalies and prepare audit actions on a well-founded basis.
• Assess information: Depending on the mandate, participate in the audit of sustainability information and learn how it relates to business processes and corporate reporting.
• Build relationships: Work with experienced colleagues and contacts from the finance department up to CFOs, gaining insights into key business decisions.

What they offer

• Your path to the diploma: Your Career Start combines practical mandate work with a clearly structured training programme.
• Learn the profession: After your onboarding, you will work directly in audit teams, learn our audit methodology and audit software, and gradually take on your own audit areas.
• Grow during the busy season: From January to April, you will work intensively on year-end audits and mandatory client deadlines.
• You apply your knowledge directly, learn within the team, and develop your expertise quickly.
• Achieve your diploma: We support you on your path to becoming a qualified auditor (dipl. Wirtschaftsprüfer:in) and provide financial and time-related support for your training.
• Paid study days, self-study, and exams are integrated with your practical work.

About the role

Numbers tell stories, and we help make them credible and trustworthy. Together, we audit the consolidated and annual financial statements of national and international companies and gain unique insights into their business models, strategies, and future plans. It’s about more than just balance sheets and financial information: through our work, we create trust, promote transparency, and make an important contribution to a strong economy. From the very beginning, you are part of the team, work on exciting client mandates, and grow step by step with the support of experienced colleagues into your role as a future qualified auditor (dipl. Wirtschaftsprüfer:in).

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