Accountancy Summer Internship Programme 2024

abrdn

Mar 15, 2024

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Accounting & Tax
Edinburgh

Requirements

We are looking for undergraduates and graduates in their penultimate of study (to graduate in 2025) to join our summer internship programme. We are looking for motivated candidates who display the following skills:
Communication: Can clearly and effectively communicate both written and verbally.
Analytical : Effective in collecting and analysing information to facilitate and support decisions.
Trust & Integrity: Demonstrates the organisations’ values to deliver work with integrity and to high ethical standards.
Planning & Prioritising: Organises and priorities to efficiently accomplish tasks and meet objectives based on relative value, importance, and urgency.
Attention to detail: Demonstrates attention to detail, accuracy and organisation in work.
Team Work: Encourages team work, collaboration and breaking down boundaries when working with others.

Responsibilities

From day one, you’ll contribute to our ambitions whilst developing your skills and knowledge in the industry. Over the 10-week summer placement you will be given real work with tangible outputs, allowing you to gain exposure to real business situations, with real responsibility.
Regardless of which team you join you will gain a depth of experience; getting the opportunity to work with hardworking professionals across our business and engage in development activities with your peers on the internship programme. You will be based with the same team throughout the placement.
We look to develop our colleagues from the beginning of their career. During the 10-week internship programme you will build knowledge within the department you are in as well as having the opportunity to build a network with other interns and wider colleagues.
As well as on the job learning, you will have access to a wide range of online learning courses and complete a structured development programme over 10-weeks that includes training, networking and gaining exposure to senior partners across the business.

Application Process

The application process is made up of:
CV & online application;
Pre-recorded video interview;
Assessment centre (group activity, case study presentation, panel interview).

abrdn

Finance

Industry

5001-10,000

Employees

Mission & Purpose

At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures. We structure our business into three areas – and together they reflect our focus on enabling our clients to be better investors:Investments: We work with clients to create solutions across markets, asset classes and investment strategies – combining our global network of investment professionals with research, data and technology. Adviser: We offer market-leading platform technology and tools that enable UK wealth managers and financial advisers to look after the diverse needs of their clients. Personal: We help people throughout the UK plan for their financial futures – through our financial planning business, our digital direct-to-consumer services and discretionary fund management services. Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world. We’re a global business. We manage and administer £532 billion of assets for our clients, and we have over 1 million shareholders. (Figures as at 30 June 2021)Capital at Risk.