Audit Summer Work Experience

Lubbock Fine is a successful 22 Partner accountancy and tax advisory practice based in the City of London. We are also a founder member of the award-winning global network Russell Bedford International. Continuing our successful organic growth, we plan to expand our team to 200 professionals in 2025. The overarching strategy of the firm at the heart of our success is our vision to ‘redefine exceptional’. Now is a perfect time to join us to be part of that success and to help shape the future.

We have a diverse range of clients, both within the UK and around the world. Our specialist business desks look after clients in France, Portugal, India, the Middle East and Africa, we have a newly launched German desk and business operations in the Cayman Islands. Our Dubai office, established in 2006, was one of the first to register as auditors with the Dubai Financial Services Authority.

Our clients cover an array of sectors including property investment businesses, natural resources, and renewable energy firms, the media & entertainment sector, technology, FCA registered firms, charities and not-for-profit and large funds with up to £4bn in assets. With such a diverse client base our work is both challenging and gratifying and offers our people many opportunities to gain exposure to new industries, or to specialise.

We take CSR seriously and are a carbon neutral firm. We are heavily engaged in social mobility and charitable activities giving you the opportunity to give back. Employee wellbeing, flexibility and a quality working environment are at the core of the firm’s values. We have an extensive range of benefits. LF understands that everyone will have different long-term personal goals. Consequently, each team member is able to develop a tailored development plan to help them reach their specific career goals. Some of our team members who moved into Industry are now our clients. After a period of time with the firm we offer sabbaticals and international secondments within the RBI network.

If you are looking to take your career path all the way to partnership, the path to achieving this will be completely transparent. LF operates a unique ‘Path-to-Partner’ training and mentoring programme, allowing you to progress from trainee, into management and then Partnership as fast as you are capable of doing so.

Our Audit Team

The audit team currently has over 70 staff, ranging from trainee to partner. We have assisted entrepreneurial businesses to set up their initial company and then helped them with their financial planning as well as finding suitable finance and investors.

Job Description: Audit and Assurance Summer Work Experience

A summer placement is a great way to find out more about your career of interest. If you are part-way through your studies at university, or completing you’re A-Levels, this two-week summer scheme, taking place over the periods of July and August, could be just right for you.

Our summer scheme offers high calibre students the opportunity to experience life at Lubbock Fine

You will be a key member of our team from day one. Our summer scheme programme allows you to experience working in the audit team alongside current trainees and experienced members of the firm. Working on client projects from the outset, you'll strengthen your knowledge and receive an unfiltered look at professional life.

By joining us you’ll work in an environment that will not only inspire you but support your career aspirations and professional development.

At the end of the placement weeks, we select those who demonstrate their passion to apply for our training contracts.

What can we offer you?

A great introduction into accountancy and audit

Exposure to varied, interesting and challenging work

The opportunity to develop technical skills

We have strong leadership which gives importance to a positive working culture, which means we’re able to provide an informal and fun working environment. We work hard to deliver excellent client service! We are on an exciting journey to redefine exceptional, and perhaps you would like to be on that journey with us?

We'd love to hear from you if:

You will need to be in your penultimate year at university studying towards at least a 2:1 degree in any discipline

If you are in your final year of completing A-Levels and you are seeking a school leaver opportunity, you will be on course to achieve 3 A levels (or equivalent) with grades A-C for each

Above all, we’re looking for talented, driven students who exemplify our values