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Applications for the 2025 EY Graduate Programme are now open!
What is IT Controls Assurance at EY?
Technology is at the heart of most modern organisations. While Technology opens opportunities, it also exposes organisations to risks. As organisations continue to transform at pace and embrace new emerging technology, there is an ever increasing need for support in mitigating risk.
Our IT Controls Assurance Team combines digital know-how with advanced technology to help clients understand and respond to the changing IT risks within their environment.
Choosing your career route
When submitting your application form, you will need to consider whether you would prefer work with our UK & Ireland (UKI) or Financial Services (FS) Team. The difference between the two are largely the clients we work with.
EY – UK & Ireland (UKI) – Non-Financial Services Clients: Industrial, Commercial & Technology Clients including Automotive & Transportation, Government & Public Sector, Health & Life Sciences, Mining & Metals, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction, Technology, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment.
EY – Financial Services (FS) Financial Services clients: Asset Management, Banking and Insurance, Investment Services, Financial Services Industry, Foreign Exchange.
Once you have chosen your career direction, you will get to choose which programme you want to take.
Our IT Controls Assurance Graduate Programme:
Our experience helps clients grow, manage, protect and, when necessary, transform their businesses. Together, we shape entire industries by applying the right technological solutions to real world problems. Your diversity of thought will only strengthen our work within this incredibly varied business area.
We have several work streams for you to experience which help EY clients on matters including improving their processes/governance policies and establishing future focused control strategies.
Across all the work streams, you will be given the opportunity, as you grow in your career, to lead meetings, identify issues, and propose solutions. You will work with different people from different levels and be exposed to different environments.
What are the requirements for an IT Controls Assurance graduate:
You will need a minimum of a 2.1 bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) to apply for this role. While STEM, Computer Science, Business, or Accounting honours is beneficial, we welcome all disciplines.
What you will do on the graduate programme:
- You will work on large complex audits, reviewing system controls to provide comfort to the Audit Partners so they can rely on the integrity of the financial reporting data.
- With increased reliance on third parties offering SAAS (Software As A Service), there is a requirement for independent auditors to provide comfort on the adequacy of the controls in place. You will be conducting reviews over processes in dynamic environments, applying best practice control frameworks to produce reports that are relied upon by users of the products offered by the third party.