Work Experience Student, Summer 2026

Are you a self motivated, hardworking, ambitious person student for your next challenge? If you are in school or college and you're looking to join our work experience programme.

Our firm

The UHY Hacker Young Group is a leading network of chartered accountants with offices spanning England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also a founding member of UHY International, our Top 20 global network, which has over 340 offices in all major global business jurisdictions.

We are a people first business, and we recognise that you, and the rest of our team, are essential to deliver on our purpose of helping you prosper, whether you are a client, a member of our team, or part of our wider community.

We want you to be challenged, to learn and grow while you're with us, to have fun in the workplace and work with like minded individuals.

Are you looking to experience a team that:

• believes in and delivers a culture of work life balance, with a focus on wellbeing?
• provides a clear career framework and routes to progress?
• understands the importance of rewarding and retaining high calibre teams?
• delivered 20% growth in the last 12 months?

If so we would love to hear from you.

Overview of the Programme

Our work experience opportunities are designed for those looking to gain an initial understanding of the inner workings of an accountancy firm. Our office works with a varied range of businesses, from publicly listed companies to partnerships, and in a diverse mix of sectors and industries including property, manufacturing and charities and not for profit.

Our work experience opportunities could be in several of our service lines, including private client services, turnaround and recovery, business advisory, audit and assurance or corporate tax. You will gain first hand experience into what it is like to work in a modern business environment like UHY Hacker Young.

Responsibilities

Working as part of a team you will have the opportunity to develop key professional skills, that will increase your employability in turn. Duties could include activities like updating databases, conducting research, creating and updating spreadsheets, dealing with office mail, filing, photocopying, answering the telephone and taking messages. You may also have the opportunity to attend meetings and to learn more about the individual roles of other team members.

Working arrangements

The working week: 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday) to be worked from 9.30AM to 5.30PM with flexibility of hours to meet specific the programme requirements.

Location: Your principal work base is our London Office, all work experience students are required to complete their programme on site.

Person specifications - entry requirements

• GCSE - predicted grade 6 or above
• A Level - predicted B, B, C or equivalent & GCSE requirements met
• Degree - predicted a 2:1 in your university course & GCSE/A level requirements met
• an interest in Accountancy, Business or Finance