Offered my 1st Graduate Job Today

charltonfan1 · 15 Mar 2006 at 21:24

After 2 sucessful interviews on Monday i was given a nice call today offering me a job in the Audit team of Baker Tilly in London for September '07

Leaves me time to go travlleing after uni. Pretty sure i'll take it.

If anyone has any queries about the company or audit please fire away

Jimmeh · 15 Mar 2006 at 21:26

Congratulations.

Scuzi · 15 Mar 2006 at 21:29

Congratulations!

What does the job involve?

Spamalot · 15 Mar 2006 at 21:30

Scuzi said:
What does the job involve?

Loads of cash fingers crossed I bet, lol!

charltonfan1 · 15 Mar 2006 at 21:40

Scuzi said:
Congratulations!
What does the job involve?

Thanks. i'll be part of audit teams who go to clients and give an independant view of them. Annual accounts will be produced, and all their processes looked at to see if we can sugest improvements.

Spamalot said:
Loads of cash fingers crossed I bet, lol!

Not as much as i had hoped initially but salary will rise pretty sharply over time

smokey · 15 Mar 2006 at 21:41

Good, glad to hear you're not a uni drop out like me and stuck it through until the end!

NickXX · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:04

charltonfan1 said:
Thanks. i'll be part of audit teams who go to clients and give an independant view of them. Annual accounts will be produced, and all their processes looked at to see if we can sugest improvements.

Not as much as i had hoped initially but salary will rise pretty sharply over time

Not quite - we don't suggest improvements, we just make sure they comply with the accounting standards

The salary will move up very quickly, and fuel expenses will mean that you take home a lot more money than you realise at first

Congrats by the way!

lozza · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:16

charltonfan1 said:
After 2 sucessful interviews on Monday i was given a nice call today offering me a job in the Audit team of Baker Tilly in London for September '07

Leaves me time to go travlleing after uni. Pretty sure i'll take it.

If anyone has any queries about the company or audit please fire away

Congrats

Tell me something... what are you studying exactly and how do you get a job when your still at uni and your final grade isn't known - what if by some strange happening you fail? is it a conditional offer?

Also 2007! how can they offer a job now for 2007 - thats over 18 months away

dboundy · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:22

Congratulations, hope it goes well for you.

starscream · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:24

Whenever we have auditors at my work, they are treated like royalty, put up in the best hotels and taken out for expensive lunches!

Enjoy

NickXX · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:29

starscream said:
Whenever we have auditors at my work, they are treated like royalty, put up in the best hotels and taken out for expensive lunches!

starscream · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:33

NickXX said:

Where do I sign up

Jimmeh · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:36

starscream said:
Whenever we have auditors at my work, they are treated like royalty, put up in the best hotels and taken out for expensive lunches!

Enjoy

We have internal auditors - they're a pain the arse, and are treated accordingly. Although I am currently trying to get into the delicates of one the girls who works in Internal Audit

External auditors are a different matter, they have the power to shutdown a business if they find practises are in anyway 'off'.
I work in the Insurance sector and these people are **** hot on anything remotely suspicious.

If they're treated well, they're more likely to look on any odd dealings in a different light - human nature.

crashuk · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:40

prepare to live in hotels and study the acca at the same time.

charltonfan1 · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:48

Harib0 said:
Tell me something... what are you studying exactly and how do you get a job when your still at uni and your final grade isn't known - what if by some strange happening you fail? is it a conditional offer?

Also 2007! how can they offer a job now for 2007 - thats over 18 months away

Studying Economics, although they recruit any graduate regardless of degree

Firms normally give conditional offers (2.1 mostly). The lady i spoke today only mentioned that i inform her of the grade i achieve when the results are out. It maybe a conditional offer, but i wont be sure until i receive the paperwork on saturday.

I am taking a year out after uni, and they are happy to defer my place till 07

charltonfan1 · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:49

crashuk said:
prepare to live in hotels and study the acca at the same time.

Studying ACA and ive been told about company expenses

KaHn · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:50

Tbh you shouldn't get any thing but congrats.

KaHn

ArmyofHarmony · 15 Mar 2006 at 22:54

congrats

you say they recruit any graduate,

In your degree i gather you gained some experience in what you'll be doing at Baker Tilly? or are you going to be learning pretty much from scratch (which someone like me would be doing, if i was in your position with a physics degree).

charltonfan1 · 15 Mar 2006 at 23:00

ArmyofHarmony said:
congrats

you say they recruit any graduate,

In your degree i gather you gained some experience in what you'll be doing at Baker Tilly? or are you going to be learning pretty much from scratch (which someone like me would be doing, if i was in your position with a physics degree).

Thanks.

Ive studied 1 accountancy module over my 3years at uni (i wanted to do more, but the timetable wouldnt allow it). This gave me a rough idea of Balance sheets/ P&L etc.

But they didnt even ask me any questions about specific accounting details, they just wanted to know i was keen. You would be in no worse position than me because you are studying physics, they would ask you why you want to be an accountant rather than use your degree

Burned_Alive · 15 Mar 2006 at 23:03

Just out of interest whats your predicted degree (what are you averaging)?