Key Takeaways
- Gain hands-on Audit experience and work towards professional qualifications during a year-long placement.
- Earn between £26,615 and £29,700 per year, depending on location.
- Applications close on Sunday 15th November 2026.
- Requires you to be a second-year undergraduate student on track for a 2:2 degree.
- Opportunities available in multiple UK hubs, including London, Manchester, and Birmingham.
About the Role
About the Audit Industrial Placement
Spend a year gaining practical experience with BDO on our Audit Industrial Placement programme. You'll build skills, work with clients, and have the opportunity to return on our Graduate Programme.
About Audit
In Audit, you will be involved in client work and gain responsibility as your experience grows. Our Audit teams work across specialist areas including Pension Audit, Public Sector, Not-for-Profit, Financial Services and Technology Risk Assurance.
You will learn by doing, build your confidence, and discover what kind of work interests you, with support from colleagues.
The Programme
Over your placement year, you will gain hands-on Audit experience, working with clients and colleagues while developing your technical, commercial and relationship-building skills.
During your year with BDO, you can:
- Sit three professional exams.
- Log six months of practical work experience with the relevant Professional Body.
This placement can help you return to BDO on the Graduate programme and complete your remaining exams and training in 2.5 years, qualifying around six months sooner.
You will have opportunities to work alongside experienced colleagues and senior leaders, contribute to client work, and take on more responsibility as your confidence grows. Placement students have reported being trusted early, having their ideas welcomed, and getting opportunities to work directly with partners.
About You
You should be curious, resilient, and ready to try new things. You enjoy solving problems, thinking things through, and putting what you’ve learned into practice. You don’t need to arrive knowing everything; bring your energy and willingness to get involved.
What You Get In Return
- Additional leave
- Gym membership
- Employee discounts
- Pension, health and wellbeing support
- A range of protection benefits
Locations
Join us in one of the following hubs: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Ipswich, Leeds, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Reading or Southampton. You’ll need to live within a commutable distance of the office you apply to, as relocation support is not provided.
Entry Requirements
- Be a second-year student on a four-year undergraduate degree, seeking a third-year work placement.
- On track for a minimum 2:2 degree in any discipline (obtained or predicted).
- Three A-levels or equivalent at grades A*-C (excluding General Studies and Extended Projects) or four Scottish Advanced Highers at grade A-B.
- GCSEs at grade 4 and above in Maths and English, or Scottish National 5 grade A-C.
- The right to work in the UK.
Interview Process
- Online application form.
- Online assessments.
- Video interview.
- Virtual assessment centre and interview.
Salary
£26,615 - £29,700 (depends on location)
Closing Date
Sunday 15th November 2026