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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69.2 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
807 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 October 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2014
Foreseen end date
31 October 2019
Description
Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has announced it is to create 807 new jobs in Belfast. 500 of the new jobs are for graduates and the remaining jobs will be for qualified accountants. The announcement confirmed that the jobs would be filled over a five year period.
The jobs are supported by a total investment package of £40 million, over £4 million of which will be provided by Invest NI. The latest expansion by PwC follows previous rounds of expansion in Northern Ireland, reported in 2012. It also follows other companies' expansion of professional jobs within the province.
Sources
1 October 2014: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2014), PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 77714, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77714.
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