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The opportunity of a lifetime

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Graduate and school leaver career opportunities 2018

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Students voted us the number one Graduate Employer in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers survey for the last 14 years.

We’re the UK’s Graduate Employer of Choice for Accounting according to The Times.

We’re a top 10 leading employer for IT according to The Times Top 100 IT Employer of Choice.

Life at PwC Isle of Man

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I joined PwC as an Assistant Manager. I know from my own experience that by being yourself, and bringing your passion, commitment and flexibility to all that you do, you’ll develop a rewarding and fulfilling career with us. I’m committed to ensuring our people have the opportunities they need to unlock their potential, to play to their strengths and to be themselves, so I hope you’ll consider starting your career with us.

Ian ClagueSenior Partner, PwC Isle of Man LLC

Your career is just that; yours. You choose it. You live it. You make it happen. To get the best from it, you need the best opportunities. That’s why opportunities are at the heart of a career with us. Opportunities for you to grow as an individual, to build lasting relationships and make an impact in a place where people, quality and value mean everything. And we’re proud, based on the opportunity we offer, that students have voted us the number one Graduate Employer in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers survey for the last 14 years.

Smart, courageous people who are able to forge strong relationships make us the best at what we do: measuring, protecting and enhancing what matters most to our clients. And although the work we do will vary, the way we work will not. We make sure all our people are prepared for the challenges of the future through our global leadership framework, The PwC Professional.

We aspire to be an organisation driven by a clear purpose, where each of our people is passionate about helping to build trust in society and solve complex problems. We want to recruit people who share these values and bring them to life in the way they approach the relationships they build, the decisions they make, and the work that they do. It’s this passion for making a difference, to our clients and to each other, that we believe makes us an inspiring backdrop for your career.

We’ll be transparent about our impact on the environment and we’ll show you how PwC is about people as much as it is about numbers. Be part of something special and find out how your drive and initiative could open up new opportunities for you and our clients.

Take the opportunity of a lifetime. Join PwC.

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The opportunity open to you

Your applicationFind out what we’re looking for and how to apply

Your rewardsDiscover what you can look forward to

Work experience opportunitiesGet a feel for working with us before you graduate

Our graduate opportunitiesDecide where in our business you could make your mark

Get to know usHear from some of our people and learn more about what we do

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The opportunity to make the right choice

Our graduate opportunitiesWe tackle a wide range of business issues and complex commercial challenges. And our ideas boost the performance of all sorts of organisations. So it’s not surprising that we offer a huge variety of career paths.

Over the next few pages you can start to explore the possibilities.

And as there are so many, you’re bound to discover something that fits you perfectly.

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Actuarial work is highly analytical and technical, but one of the greatest skills you need is the ability to explain this knowledge. Actuarial work is a stimulating and challenging career choice.

You’ll join our Actuarial Services department where you‘ll develop specialist skills and study for professional qualifications.

Actuaries work with uncertainty. Join us and you’ll help clients analyse how future events - anything from a corporate take-over to a major natural disaster - could affect them. You might be calculating the impact of changing demographics or legislation on pension schemes; the effects that changes in financial markets have on different organisations; or how likely a business is to be hit by an earthquake.

You’ll learn how to use complex financial and statistical theories to weigh up the risks and estimate the odds of what might happen. Just as importantly, you’ll develop a flair for presenting your findings in a simple and easy to understand language. What’s more, early client exposure will broaden your experience.

In Actuarial Services you’ll work with a wide variety of clients from a wide variety of industries. From industries in which actuaries traditionally play a role, like the life insurance, general insurance and pension industries to some non-traditional industries like the banking and healthcare sectors, the public sector, the

funds industry and legal profession. Your advice could cover solvency, reserving, economic capital, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring and de-risking, financial modelling, underwriting, new legislation, the viability of new products and the efficiency of claims or reporting processes.

You might help analyse how clients should manage both liability and asset risks within their pension plans or you could be revising businesses’ projections and making sure they have adequate reserves. Whatever the project, you’ll make the most of your analytical skills to deliver real commercial insights. Insights that will help our clients prepare for issues you might see regularly on the news.

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Our graduate opportunitiesActuarial

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Our purpose is to build trust in society. In an ever changing world, there is an increasing focus on the total contribution from businesses to their customers, people, suppliers, community and the wider economy. We provide decision makers with information they can trust and give investors confidence.

In Assurance, we get right to the heart of business. With a continued demand for better corporate governance, accountability and transparency, we work with organisations to identify and manage their risks to best position them for the future.

Assurance is so much more than numbers. From assessing the sustainability of a supply chain, to compliance with their own internal governance policies, we help our clients to better understand their organisations’ culture and performance to help to achieve their true potential.

Our role impacts everyone’s lives and it’s work that really matters. In this constantly evolving environment, Assurance offers you a diverse career working with a wide range of businesses and industries. This variety provides the opportunity to develop a broad range of effective business skills and enables our people to excel across the breadth of work Assurance offers.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join our profession.

For you, joining our graduate programme means:

� A fascinating and challenging career

� Chartered Accountant qualification (depending on which area you join)

� Variety and breadth

� Being part of an inclusive culture

� Working hard – on client sites as well as in our offices.

Assurance

Our graduate opportunitiesAssurance

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Advisory

Our graduate opportunitiesAdvisory

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In PwC Isle of Man, we have a specific Advisory team, separate from Assurance, with the ambition to be the leading business in forensics and crisis markets. Our Advisory practice is made up of a number of business units you’d see in other PwC offices: Deals, Consulting and Technology.

We have a core team working within the Advisory practice, contributing to all services such as Business Recovery, Forensics and Transaction Services. The Group helps senior executives and managers in some of the largest and complex businesses on the island identify and manage risk, refine and enhance their performance and understand new and challenging regulation.

As part of our team, you will use analytical, technical and client facing skills to help our clients assess business operations, strengthen internal controls and improve their business and technological performance.

Your ability to identify business risks from your analysis of data, technology and business processes and to project manage, review, report and present your findings effectively to our clients will make you an invaluable member of our advisory team.

Advisory is an excellent place to study for ACA or ACCA qualifications and graduate recruits undertake training to achieve these qualifications. We also have opportunities to pursue further studies in areas such as Data Analytics, Forensics and Insolvencies.


Despite what you might hear, Tax isn’t all about numbers, forms and the end of the financial year.

Tax is a fact of life, but nobody wants to pay too much. Many businesses and large organisations have tax bills that can run into the millions. Our work here helps organisations and individuals maximise their tax efficiency.

Learn everything one of the Island’s leading tax practices can teach you. Your know-how will help companies and people decide how to manage their offices, where to set up new businesses, how to reward their people and much more. But you won’t just react to immediate needs. You’ll also use your initiative and industry insight to solve complex, long-term problems.

Our expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation. We work on projects that range from assisting local traders to restructuring multimillion-pound property portfolios, and from buying a business to advising billionaires on the management of their super yacht and executive jet.

Whether you are a new graduate or a recent school or college leaver, your initial training will give you a solid grounding in all areas of Isle of Man, UK and international tax.

Training will be a mixture of on-the-job practical experience and sponsored study towards highly regarded professional qualifications; firstly with the Association of Tax Technicians and then going on to become a Chartered Tax Advisor.

As you become more experienced, you will gradually integrate into one of three specialist teams:

In Corporate Tax you’ll help clients – from the largest organisations to budding entrepreneurs – manage the tax they pay. You’ll tackle a broad range of work that includes multinational advisory projects, tax compliance and researching business issues that affect clients’ tax affairs – all while keeping pace with regularly changing tax rules.

In Personal Tax you’ll help some of the world’s leading employers make the most of their biggest asset – their people. You’ll work on everything from international pensions to communications, employment law and employee incentives to tax compliance. You’ll also help high net-worth individuals manage the local and international tax issues resulting from a broad range of business activities and investments.

In Indirect Tax you’ll advise businesses on VAT and other indirect taxes, including the international trade issues linked to Customs and Excise Duties. It’s a highly commercial, ever-changing and extremely wide-ranging field. You could be involved in purely local activities or multi-national global projects, working on more efficient internal processes or on a merger or acquisition.

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PwC are leaders in professional services and are committed to leading innovation in the industry. We are expanding our operations in technology, looking to help our organisations understand and stay ahead of digital disruption. There are opportunities for graduates to join dynamic teams at the cutting edge of innovation.

Data & analytics

In a world of Big Data and the Internet of Things, vast amounts of valuable information is available to companies. Analysis of this information and turning it into actionable insights is key to transforming businesses to increase revenue, improve processes or build better customer relationships. PwC is enabling organisations to gather, analyse and interpret data to create valuable business intelligence and drive competitive advantage.

Cybersecurity

Digital technology continues to transform and disrupt businesses, but it also exposes them to cyberthreats. Phishing, hacking, ransomware, whaling and other cyber threats cost businesses money. No organisation is safe. Cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated. Clients are looking to experts, such as PwC to help assess, build and manage security systems and we in PwC are building a team to help them.

Digital

We live in an ‘always-on’ culture, where customer expectations are ever more sophisticated. Businesses are undergoing digital transformation to keep pace with these expectations and to stay relevant for the digital generation. PwC are helping organisations understand the digital environment and to be digitally enabled. We help them be agile, stay ahead of their competitors and delight their customers.

TechnologyBuilding an agile future

Building an agile futureTechnology

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Our graduate opportunities

Will you gain a professional qualification?

Where you could workBusiness area

Assurance Yes. Accountancy qualification from ICAEW or ACCA.

� External Audit

Advisory Yes. Accountancy qualification from ICAEW or ACCA.

You may also undertake relevant specialist training progressing to a recognised industry qualification.

� Regulatory Consulting � Forensic Investigation � Risk Assurance � Insolvency � Transaction Services � Valuations � Cyber Security � Data and Analytics

Actuarial Yes. Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

� Actuarial Services � People and Organisation: Pensions � People and Organisation: Reward and Employment

Yes. Associate of Tax Technicians (ATT) and progressing to Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA).

Tax � Corporate Tax � Personal Tax � Indirect Tax

At a glance

ICAEW: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and WalesACCA: Association of Chartered Certified Accountants** Or equivalent to meet UCAS tariff, but excludes General Studies.


What you need to get in

2:1 in any degree discipline.

At least 320 UCAS tariff**






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The opportunity to plan ahead

Work experience opportunitiesBe spoilt for choice. Turn the page to check out our career and work experience opportunities. You could experience our Summer Internships, where you’ll work alongside specialists in the business.

Take part and you’ll get a first-hand insight into working life at PwC and a better understanding of the role we play in society. Find out more about all the different ways we can help you launch your career.

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Penultimate year students

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Work experience opportunities

From your very first day on campus, there are lots of ways you can gain work experience with us. Each offers the opportunity to discover what a career with us is all about, and boost your employability.

Boost your employability

Insight Event

Spend a highly interactive time with us and learn about the work we do. It will help you decide which of our graduate career opportunities is right for you.

Summer Internship

Working alongside specialists in your chosen business area, you’ll be a valued member of the team. You’ll work on assurance client projects for 3 weeks to give you the best insight into what we really do. In your final week you will also work in our tax, advisory and actuarial teams. You’ll discover how the work we do really matters – to our clients, the economy and the wider community. Alongside that, you’ll build networks with your colleagues and peer group through our client-focused internship challenge.

Students in any year

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First year students

Second year students

Penultimate year students

Final year students

Graduates Career changers

Insight Event

Summer Internship

Graduate opportunities

School leaver opportunities


Career opportunities

Find out which of our opportunities is right for you.

Who our programmes are aimed at



Your rewards

To succeed you’ll take personal responsibility for managing your career. The deal is that in your first five years you’ll work hard, be committed, flexible, and build long lasting working relationships. If you do, we’ll provide the support and encouragement you need to succeed. Here you’ll see an outline of how to progress towards Manager.

Your first five years

Graduate induction event and skills day

Technical training to allow you to develop all of the skills you need to be a PwC Professional (including studying for a professional qualification*)

* Dependent on which business area you work in

Business, technical and skills training including studying for a professional qualification*

Long-term career planning support with your counsellor

Starting to personalise your career path – helping you understand how your skills relate to other opportunities within PwC

Building technical and specialist skills, supported by on-the-job training

Completion of professional qualification*

Internal, client, external and overseas mobility opportunities

Business area rotations*

Personalised career path according to your career aspirations

Further developing your technical and specialist skills

Starting to lead and develop teams

Internal, external and overseas mobility opportunities

Continuing to develop technical and specialist skills according to your future career aspirations

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Professional Skills Curriculum: Offers development to everyone across all areas of the business, can be accessed at any time, and is aligned to our PwC Professional framework.

Your counsellor: Provides impartial and professional support to help guide you through your big career decisions. Some of the key areas of support include: personal coaching, long-term career planning, and preparing for your promotion.

Life and cultureLife at PwC is much more than studying for a professional qualification. We encourage informal and flexible working where possible (qualification pathway permitting) as well as formal flexible working arrangements

We encourage you to build your wider social networks through local office socials, sports or business focused groups

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By now you should have a good idea of the learning environment we create for you and the personal and professional development you can expect. But we know that finances are important too. Our people are important to us and we want to reward hard work and commitment.

Our offer to you

Your life at PwC

It’s all about you

A highly competitive salary

Time off in lieu An extra day off at Christmas

Full study support

20 days’ standard holiday pro rata**

But our reward to our people is much more than financial. We work hard to create an environment where our people can grow and flourish.

You can also trade up or down, up to the equivalent of one working week of your standard holiday entitlement, to a maximum of 25 days per year.**

The option to join our pension scheme

Work kit

Bring your own device

Laptop and bag

Stationery

Office facilities

Filtered water and hot drink stations

Contemplation rooms

Shower

Complimentary fruit

Flexible working

Maternity and paternity leave

Career breaks/Sabbaticals

Reduced working patterns

Social life

Social clubs

Sports teams

Community initiatives

Charity day

Networks

Office socials

Work benefits

Travel insurance

Private healthcare*

Pension*

Time of in Lieu

Funded study

Study support

Exam bonus

*upon qualification

Your rewardsYour rewards

10 bank holidays (8UK + 2 IOM)

Exam bonus


Work Social RewardTraining

Social drinks

Team away days

Parties

day for volunteer time each year1 Yearly contribution

and impact reviews to support your development2x

Join our PwC sports teams, and other social interest groups

Financial support and time off for professional qualifications

Work with world-leading clients

Work with senior PwC people

Get responsibility and manage others

Be challenged and stretched by working on complex projects

Structured training and development

Use the latest digital learning platforms and methods

Learn on-the-job

Clear career progression and promotion

Competitive salary and bonus time of in lieu reflecting your contribution and impact

Work from the office, client offices and home

Use cutting-edge technology

Your own laptop and Bring Your Own Device

Technology

Your rewards


Nick HalsallUniversity of LancasterAccounting and finance degree

Started a family

Currently Partner for AIM/listed clients & holds the role of Technical & Ethics partner

Relocated back to the Isle of Man

Promoted to Senior Manager

Promoted to Director

Promoted to Senior Associate at PwC Isle of Man

Moved from financial services to TICE (Technology, Information Communications, Entertainment & Media)

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See the career journey one of our Partners has taken through PwC – from joining PwC Isle of Man Assurance in 1993, to being promoted to Partner, leading our listed clients.

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Our client asked us to help them with their investigations into a potential fraud that had taken place. It appeared that significant sums of money belonging to clients of the law firm (running into millions of pounds) had been stolen over a number of years. We assisted them with their investigations, in a project which lasted over 2 years. The fraudster in this case is now in prison.

PwC conducts a biennial Global Economic Crime Survey throughout the world. In 2016 we invited one of the authors of the report to the Island. We held an event at which the author and others discussed and debated the findings and themes from the 2016 survey and their relevance here on the Isle of Man. The rising threat of Cybercrime was a particularly hot topic, both in the survey and locally. To find out more and see the results of the survey visit: www.pwc.com/crimesurvey.

Get to know us

Innovation at PwCForensics ServicesFighting Fraud and Economic Crime

Partnerships are incredibly important to how we do things, so we have a strong focus on collaboration here. A great example is our alliance with Google for Work – a working relationship that enables us to deliver technology solutions that help our clients reinvent and innovate their businesses worldwide.

It’s a unique union that combines strengths from both sides. Google gives us access to a vast global network with the brainpower to solve challenging technical problems. And through us, Google can connect with a huge range of businesses in ways they never could before.

Since we began developing solutions together, we’ve transformed a wide range of businesses through technology. How many times have you seen workers digging up the same stretch of road time and time again? It might sound simple, but before we developed a bespoke web app, engineers at a major utilities company had no way of knowing who else was working in the same areas, so they weren’t able to coordinate their efforts. The app has increased efficiency, reduced disruption to the public and saved the company a lot of money.

We’ve also helped US Government departments and big retail processors to identify cyber threats that can occur almost daily and on a massive scale. With responsibility for huge volumes of sensitive and confidential data, they need to know if anyone is attempting to steal information or cause damage to their network by intercepting connections. We created a way to collect, transport and analyse these billions of connections, enabling threats to be identified, challenged and ultimately deflected.

So, by bringing together our understanding of client needs with Google’s powerful infrastructure, we can offer innovative solutions that continue to raise our profile in the world of technology. It’s an exciting collaboration to be part of – and we’re looking forward to seeing where it takes us.

PwC and Google for WorkReinventing business together

Findings from the Global Economic Crime Survey 2016:


http://www.pwc.com/crimesurvey

The opportunity to make yourself stand out

Your applicationBefore you apply to us, you need to know what we’re looking for. And be able to say how your experiences and achievements inside and outside school or university can add value.

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Develop yourself and others Have you ever changed the way you did something after getting feedback?

Share and innovate Have you applied something you’ve learned, in a part-time job or in class, to achieve a goal?

Be a strong communicator Have you presented to your class, club or society?

Be a team player Have you ever supported a teammate or classmate to help them achieve success?

Build your networks Are you a strong contributor at your local club or society?

Be open and honest Can you think of a time when you’ve had to keep something confidential?

Be organised Have you juggled different priorities, such as degree studies, to meet an important deadline?

Prepare for the unexpected Have you tried new things that are outside your comfort zone?

Keep developing your knowledge Are you interested in business and current affairs?

Be passionate about what you do Do you work hard to make things better, such as being part of a revision group or having a part-time job?

Communication skills

Businessminded

Strong team player

Open and honest

Think about your skillsWe’ll be looking for you to show you can:

What we look forKnow what you’re signing up for Starting out in your chosen career and everything that comes with that will be exciting, stretching and challenging. But the rewards are well worth it. If you’re ready to invest plenty of effort, commitment, flexibility and passion, we’re ready to give you our full support and we’ll invest in your future.

All routes offer you the same deal. The opportunity to grow as an individual, to meet new people, and build lasting relationships that will stay with you for life. In return we need people who are resilient, willing to work hard, are quick to learn, and who, above all, are passionate about going the extra mile to help our clients.

Bringing out the best in you Throughout your career, you’ll be supported by the best in learning and development – from specialist seminars, courses and toolkits to informal ‘lunch and learn’ sessions hosted by your peers. Your teammates will show you the ropes, and your Counsellor will work with you to guide your career and support you in your learning. And at every stage, progression is based on merit.

The PwC Professional All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that help us deliver our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’.

The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes: whole leadership, business acumen, technical capabilities, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop and assess our people at all grades and in all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.

Your application


Get online

Decide on the one programme you want to apply for and the skills you can bring then apply by completing our application form that can be found at www.pwc.com/im/careers. Once complete email or post it to our office.

Interview preparation

It will be a competency-based interview so make sure you’ve thought about how your experiences demonstrate the competencies we’re looking for and consider The PwC Professional framework

Offer

We’ll tell you whether we’d like you to join us as soon after the final stage interview as possible.

Joining us

The support starts as soon as you say ‘yes’. We’ll help you make the most of your talents with a structured, comprehensive, on-going development programme. Ultimately though, our best training takes place in our close team environment, on-the-job and in front of our clients.

Research

At interview, you’ll need to explain why you’ve chosen a specific business area, how you think it creates value for our clients, and what skills you can bring to it. You’ll also need to show that you understand how much time you may have to invest in getting a professional qualification.

First stage interview and assessment

This will be held at our offices. We’ll invite you in to sit a numberical skills test to ensure you have the ability to be successful in your professional qualification. Then you will attend a first interview and we’ll explore your understanding of our business and how carefully you’ve thought about your career choice, as well as how you work and communciate with others.

Final stage interview

Your second and final stage interview will be with a partner or director. Like your first stage interview, this will be competency-based so be ready to talk about your experiences, demonstrate your understanding of our business and show you have the attributes detailed in The PwC Professional.

Pre-employment screening

Accept our offer and we’ll check your grades and job history, so please make sure everything’s correct before you send us your application. We’re known for accuracy, so carrying out checks like this protects our reputation.

The opportunity to apply

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Our network

PwC is a global network. We have offices throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland and rest of the world.

50%of our jobs are outside of London.

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