2025 BrightStart Apprenticeship Scheme – Audit & Assurance Belfast

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

12/3/2024

Deloitte is the biggest professional services Firm in the world making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. We’re driven to create positive progress for our clients, community, people, and the planet. This sense of purpose inspires us to work to the highest standards, to tackle the challenges that matter.

Audit & Assurance is one of our biggest service lines and the driving engine of Deloitte Ireland. We provide services that go beyond expectations to deliver insight and confidence for our leading international and local clients.

Our Audit and Assurance teams are a key part of the financial reporting ecosystem. Deloitte is constantly evolving its audit and assurance processes providing value and insights. We leverage cutting-edge technology in combination with our global network of professionals applying diverse skills and experiences to make an impact that matters to our clients.

Who We Are

At Deloitte, we celebrate the individuality that each team member brings—whether it’s their ideas, interests, or personality. This diversity is key to our culture and success.

At Deloitte Ireland, we’re a team of over 3,000 talented individuals. As our firm grows, we remain committed to leadership across five key business areas: Consulting, Audit & Assurance, Tax, Risk Advisory, and Financial Advisory. We partner with some of the largest companies in Ireland and globally, providing opportunities for you to make a real impact across multiple industries.

Join us and be part of a global network of nearly 400,000 people across 150 countries.

Why Choose a Career in Audit & Assurance?

Deloitte’s Audit and Assurance Practice is recognized as one of the world’s leading audit firms. Our practice is built around core capabilities in people, processes, technology, and industry expertise—equipping us to help clients navigate their most complex challenges.

Audit & Assurance is about more than just numbers. We provide independent insights and challenge to help our clients and their stakeholders make informed decisions.

From statutory audits to due diligence reviews and accounting advice on corporate governance, we offer the diagnostics and processes that build trust and inspire confidence. Our relentless pursuit of quality and talent drives the success of thousands of transactions each year, with opportunities to gain exposure in exposure to the some of the most influential and well-known multi-nationals, and leading local private businesses.

What does a BrightStart Apprentice do?

As a BrightStart Apprentice, you'll shape your own career while gaining real, on-the-job experience. From day one, you'll work alongside experienced colleagues, receive respect, and have dedicated time to pursue your professional qualifications.

This apprenticeship equips you with skills that will serve you throughout your entire career. Our BrightStart Higher Apprenticeship Scheme in Audit & Assurance is an "earn-while-you-learn" opportunity, leading to a professional accounting qualification.

Benefits Of The BrightStart Apprenticeship

• A permanent job, fully funded professional qualifications and paid study leave
• A supportive buddy and mentor system
• Real client projects and the opportunity to learn from industry leaders.
• Insights into the business world
• Career growth potential
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back to the community.
  
  

Deloitte’s Market-Leading Benefits 

• Flexibility & Time Off: 25 days annual leave (increasing with service) plus 1 ‘Deloitte Day,’ graduation leave, time-out, early finish Fridays in summer, global remote working opportunities, and our hybrid working model, Deloitte Works. 
• Competitive Compensation: Market-leading salary, immediate access to private health insurance, and a pension scheme with employer matching contributions from day one. 
• Continual Learning & Professional Development: Enhanced support for professional and financial education, comprehensive study leave, and focused learning and development programs.
• Health & Well being: Employer-paid BUPA healthcare and a wide range of well-being programs. 
  
  

Academic Requirements

While we're interested in your creativity and problem-solving abilities, certain academic qualifications are required to be considered:

• GCSE Grade B or above in both Mathematics and English
• 120 UCAS points (equivalent to three Bs)
  
  

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we advise you to apply. Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.

What We Offer

Your reward at Deloitte is competitive, supports our purpose and enables our people to never stop growing. Your reward at Deloitte is not just your salary, we believe in investing in our people's personal and professional development and empowering their work-life balance. Our ambition is to achieve gender equality and enable continuous growth. We offer supports and benefits that suit you, wherever you are in life, including health and well-being, pension, savings, training, coaching and enhanced leave options among others.

Keep on being you. Bring your full, absolute self to work, every day. Explore, question and collaborate. Stretch your thinking, while building a career that inspires and energises you. And, whatever motivates you, keep growing both professionally and personally – because when you make an impact that matters, we do too.