At Azets people are at the core of what we do, with trainees being the first important building block in our success. We are extremely proud of and value the expertise and technical know-how within our business, but we equally understand the importance of enhancing and sharing this knowledge to continuously develop our future workforce.
With the everchanging economic landscape and advances in technology, there has never been a more exciting time to start a career in technology assurance and advisory. Whether a graduate or simply looking for a career change, why not start your journey here at Azets?
We are committed to offering development opportunities to all of our staff, from Entry Level Trainee through to Senior Partner. As a trainee, all of our roles will provide a professional qualification specific to the business area you will be working in.
Organisations are commonly seeking to utilise technology to innovate and with it increasing the digitalisation and automation of their business through the use of technology to drive cost savings, efficiencies, flexible working for employees as well as accelerating transformation across their businesses.
Innovation through the use of technology presents great opportunities for organisations, but also risks. Even without innovation, organisations are constantly having to keep pace with emerging technology risks. Our Technology Risk team has prioritised investment in recruiting, developing and progressing graduates in their career journey. We are a team of experienced professionals specialised in the diverse range of technology areas supporting clients.
- in maximising the reward and opportunity of digital transformation,
- strengthening and enhancing of cyber maturity/strategy, and
- supporting clients with their roadmap to better use of data and the strengthening of technology governance, risk and control frameworks.
The team is also at the forefront of many internal projects that are supporting the automation of our business as well as the development of tools to be used to drive efficiency into our own business processes.
The role
When you join our Technology Risk assurance and advisory team you’ll get the opportunity to work on:
- Assessing the effectiveness of client IT environments including areas such as network security, IT disaster recovery, IT operations, change management, outsourced IT/services, cloud and information governance to name a few.
- Reviewing and advising clients as part of major transformation programmes, IT effectiveness/ restructuring programmes and other relevant technology enabled programmes to support the client in managing risks as well as providing independent assurance to the board over the effectiveness of the programme.
- Reviews of technology capabilities in organisations that are being acquired, are restructuring, seeking efficiencies or seeking to maximise their investment in technology.
- Reviewing and providing advice over a client’s current cyber maturity level aligned to best practice standards supported by the National Cyber Security Centre.
Key accountabilities
Skills & experience
To get the job that you’ll love you will have:
- You will need the right to work in the UK for a minimum of 5 years from your start date.
- On track to achieve or have already achieved a minimum 2:1 in your undergraduate degree
For us, the personal attributes of each of our employees are what makes us authentic in the marketplace. We look for people who can collaborate with peers but can also bring their own voice to the table. We want people who are dynamic in their approach and respectful of other people’s opinions. We look for people who are inquisitive and proactive in their learning which we encourage through self-learning. We are looking for someone who wants to be more than just a team member, but who wants to join a family of likeminded individuals.
Other
We have created a first-class training and development programme and, by starting your career at Azets, in addition to the comprehensive on the job training, you will also be given all the support you need to complete a professional qualification, including college and/or study days, mentoring and a designated buddy.
We offer a range of different qualification pathways at Azets which are determined by the role you are applying for. We believe that everyone has their own career aspirations and with it the supporting training path, as a result we are able to offer successful candidates a variety of different options. Successful candidates will discuss with their line manager the path they take with the options including ISACA foundation based qualifications in IT audit, cloud security and cyber security and CISA.
At Azets, we understand that whilst job satisfaction and success is important, you should be rewarded for the work you do.
Our benefits include 23 days of annual leave, a birthday holiday (plus bank holidays), Agile & Flexible working, Employee referral bonuses, Lead incentive schemes and much more.