Consulting Careers

The complexity of today’s rapidly changing, increasingly digital world means it’s more important than ever for organisations to have access to the best specialist technical accounting advice. In this team you’ll draw on your expertise to help diverse businesses adapt to new demands.

The detailed advice we provide is aligned to financial reporting objectives, commercial reality and relevant regulatory requirements. Our work spans everything from supporting the implementation of new accounting standards through to GAAP conversions and IPOs. Our delivery ranges from training sessions through to drafting and reviewing in-depth accounting papers.

The fact that we support a varied group of companies with challenging, complex issues that arise from transactions, business decisions and regulatory changes makes this an excellent place to develop your skills.

Having a great product or service no longer automatically results in lasting customer loyalty. Today, creating positive customer experiences matters just as much. Not least because in the digital age, customers can quickly become powerful advocates – or influential detractors.

Life in this team means looking at everything from Customer Strategy, Experience, Centricity and Data & Analytics, through to Marketing, Sales & Service Transformation, and Digital Transformation. Join us, and you'll help to embed the 'voice of the customer' into our clients' decision-making process. That's going to involve applying detailed insights, advanced methodologies and innovative tools from our Customer Experience Centre of Excellence.

Along the way, you'll factor in the latest advancements in the digital world. You'll look to implement transformative ecosystems and platforms to help revitalise the workplace, win customers' hearts and minds and unlock the full potential of data. If you'd love to help us redefine the customer experience, this is an exciting place to be.

Join our Debt Advisory Group, and you’ll support our clients to achieve the best possible outcomes with their debt. This can range from identifying the right sources of financing across the spectrum of debt products through to executing a client’s preferred financing strategy. We advise a wide range of clients, including small sponsor-backed companies all the way through to large multinationals.

You’ll be joining an experienced, market-leading independent debt advisory team focused on delivering the best financing outcomes. Our work encompasses refinancing existing debt, funding growth strategies, raising capital to support M&A or an IPO, and dealing with financial stress. 

To give you a sense of scale, over the last two years, our UK-based Debt Advisory team has advised on over £60 billion of financing for more than 90 clients across the bank and debt capital markets. Our experience and market presence make this an exciting place to build on your skills and achieve your goals in an important part of our firm.

Our focus is on helping clients with risk and regulatory challenges across retail and wholesale banking, insurance, wealth and asset management. Clients ask us to collaborate with them and to bring a broad range of skills, including technology, to bear in meeting their risk and regulatory objectives. FRM is organised into two capability groups: Risk and Regulatory Compliance; and Actuarial.

Risk and Regulatory Compliance is a complex field. As new laws and regulations are introduced, it’s vital that corporate governance standards are always followed and that robust compliance management systems are in place. This is a truly stimulating and rewarding place to take your career further. Especially as you can expect to collaborate closely with regulators and law enforcement agencies, and to gain exposure to a rich diversity of clients.

Actuarial - in today’s complex political and economic landscape with its increased regulatory scrutiny, Brexit uncertainty, more complex risk-based capital models and demanding reporting requirements, it’s never been more important for insurers to have robust reporting processes and capabilities. Which is where our Actuarial specialists come in. The breadth of what we do here means you’ll constantly be taking on fresh challenges and gaining new insights into a complex, evolving field.

In today's complex business environment, finance functions are changing rapidly. CFOs are taking on even greater responsibility for corporate decision making. And automation is impacting the who, what and where of finance activities. All of this means it's vital that finance functions can deliver the right information to the right leaders at the right time, and in doing so, inform business decisions and drive strategic objectives.

In this team, you'll help to shift the focus of finance functions away from transaction processing and backward-looking reporting. Instead, you'll empower them to become forward-thinking business partners, responsible for driving strategic growth and profitability, as well as maintaining well-governed and controlled finance operations. It means you'll have huge scope to work collaboratively on some big challenges and to add value by sharing your ideas. We'll welcome your individual perspectives – different ways of thinking help us create innovative propositions and provide the most insightful advice.

Rooted in forensic accounting and investigation, our highly valued Forensic teams work with a wide variety of organisations to manage and mitigate risk potential; including AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption expertise, Economics, Corporate Intelligence and specialist technical accounting skills. We also work with other Consulting service areas within KPMG to provide expertise, insight and connected transformational solutions to clients and colleagues.

Our commitment to quality and efficiency is enabled by our investment in Forensic Technology and Data and Analytics. We deliver market leading technology solutions in the fields of trader surveillance, eDiscovery and payments.

The team use a wide variety of business skills and come from a number of diverse backgrounds.

Investigations & Compliance - joining our Investigations & Compliance team will mean you'll be working closely with companies to carry out detailed inquiries and examinations to impartially establish truths, evaluate implications, identify appropriate actions and communicate with regulators or outside auditors.

Dispute Advisory Services - with our Dispute Advisory Services & Economics team, you'll be helping our clients gather the critical facts so they can develop a plan to settle or prevail if disputes arise. The team's work includes investigation and analysis, damages assessment, data analysis and e-disclosure.

Corporate Intelligence - in Corporate Intelligence, we gather critical and strategic intelligence to help clients as they undertake joint ventures and acquisitions, enter into new and emerging markets, and manage their existing third-party relationships. This team also provides geopolitical insights to clients globally and critical data on sources of wealth.

Accounting Advisory Services - join us in Accounting Advisory Services and you'll support many of the world's leading multinational corporations and financial investors with ongoing processes or business critical projects across everything from new accounting standards to supporting an IPO.

Whichever Forensic team you choose to join, you'll be involved in a wide range of projects from fraud investigations, forensic data analytics to asset tracing. You will be part of a high performing team, working in a fast paced and rewarding environment, developing yourself and learning from experienced colleagues around you.

We help organisations to do the right thing by improving their corporate governance practices, risk management and internal control systems.

In Internal Audit, we provide Boards, C-suites and trustees with independent assurance that an organisation's risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively. It's about giving people at the most senior levels enhanced clarity so that they're well placed to tackle the complexities of globalisation, changing consumer demands and economic and political volatility.

In our Climate Change & Sustainability team, we work with governments and corporates across the globe to help them turn their green growth strategies into reality. This is an opportunity to join a network that's applying the kind of forward-thinking that should help organisations, nations and the planet itself to thrive long into the future. We have a dedicated Contract Compliance team too, which supports clients in a wide range of industries in areas such as royalties, licensing, distribution agreements, advertising, digital content and more. 

Our Operational Transformation teams help organisations develop the efficient and effective operations that will enable them to achieve their strategic objectives and financial goals. Specifically, we provide support for enterprise transformation and operational effectiveness strategies as well as helping clients to rapidly analyse opportunities for enhanced profitability and cost savings. We have three core capabilities:

Supply Chain Operations - working with our clients to transform their procurement, logistics, distribution, suppliers and planning performance.

Operational Excellence - driving performance through Process Excellence, Performance Excellence and Decision-Making Excellence.

Operation Model Transformation - improving clients' performance by transforming the way their businesses are set up and operate.

In this team, you'll help organisations across diverse sectors transform the performance of their core business using next generation technologies including our propositions around 'Digital Supply Chain', 'Industry 4.0', '3D Decision-Making Excellence', 'Powered Procurement' and '21st Century Operational Excellence'. You'll be working alongside colleagues with deep expertise in all aspects of business operations – from procurement to supply chain to sales and marketing – which makes this a great place to hone your skills and develop brand new ones.

The world is becoming ever more complex, presenting new challenges for businesses when it comes to managing their workforces. Join one of our People Consulting teams and you’ll be trained in one of these capability areas: HR technology and transformation (with particular focus on Workday and Oracle), Organisation design, Behavioural change management, Workforce intelligence (including HR Analytics), Talent management, People issues in M&A.

Armed with these skills, you’ll focus on advising clients in one of these three areas:

Transforming HR functions – enabling HR to add value at the right cost by transforming the client’s financial performance and market value through its people.

Delivering transformational change – working in a multi-disciplinary Management Consulting team, you’ll support the transformation of a business, division or function. This could involve helping a client to manage their people through a transition, including how they communicate with, engage, organise and motivate them.

Transforming the workforce – as digital technologies drive major changes in the workplace, companies will need different skills, locations and ways of working. You’ll help them plan and make these transitions, looking at areas such as workforce planning and the 'deal' between worker and company, and issues such as hiring, learning, talent management and performance management.

KPMG's Global Strategy Group (GSG) wants industry and issue-based experts and leaders. We are always looking for experienced professionals who can shape and inspire both our clients and our people. We seek candidates from a variety of functional, industry and academic backgrounds. We are looking for highly capable people who create insights and ideas and then work with clients to convert them into value, from innovation to results.

As a member of our team, you will apply your expertise to a diverse set of client challenges that may include: developing enterprise-wide strategies to deliver the next wave of growth for an organisation, developing and embedding digital and data-driven strategies, reshaping and reducing cost bases, establishing ecosystems and networks, coaching CEOs and senior executives on how to align their top management team, working with investors and management teams to help prepare businesses for sale, improving agility and efficiency, or developing a collaboration strategy to enter new channels and markets.

You will have opportunities to expand your leadership and management skills. International assignments and global mobility are a vital part of learning and development and building your network, so in addition to client projects, team members have the opportunity for short and long term placements across KPMG's global network.

Technology underpins innovation across every industry, bringing new opportunities and presenting new challenges. We help organisations to navigate these opportunities and challenges so they can deliver on their most complex technology change projects.

We apply Technology Enablement to solve a variety of business problems from the initial current state analysis of business processes and issues through to the design, delivery and management of strategic solutions. We increasingly use advanced analytics, Cloud platforms and Agile delivery methods to provide innovative solutions to complex industry issues. We have career paths for degree apprentices, graduates and experienced hires. Our capabilities include; Business Analysts, Solution & Technical Architects, Project & Program Managers, DevOps, Test, Financial Modelling, Data, Migration and Advanced Analytics. We leverage our Powered methods and tools to deliver pre-built transformation solutions in Finance, Risk, HR and Procurement, we combine technology expertise with industry and regulatory expertise to design, deliver and operate industry specific solutions such as Client Due Diligence, or Know Your Customer/Supplier we excel at migrations and moving workloads to the Cloud.

Our CIO Advisory team supports the development of high performing IT functions and services. We also provide business leaders with the confidence that the IT organisation and senior leaders have appropriately considered how to respond to the impact of disruptive technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI and machine learning and have implemented the required changes to IT governance and operating models. Our services cover; IT Effectiveness, IT Sourcing, Service Management and Technical Architecture.  

We help clients manage Technology Risk too, so they can mitigate the constant threats of data loss, system weakness and project failure. Your independent, jargon-free advice and advanced technology insights will put our clients firmly in control.

Join our Cyber team and stay one step ahead of the ever-evolving cyber landscape. You'll bring a business context to cyber risk management, to protect clients' critical assets and give them the confidence to run bravely towards new opportunities. We aim to be an industry leader by supporting our clients on their journey to cyber resiliency and providing long-term value through the delivery of secure connected solutions.