What if your audit insights could strengthen the economy?

Audit is the largest of our UK practices and our teams provide independent insight, challenge, and high-quality audit expertise to organisations of all shapes and sizes.  Our work in audit is all about examining organisations and ensuring their published accounts provide a 'true and fair' view of their financial position and results.

As a graduate trainee, you’ll have the chance to work on complex audit engagements and play a big part in our continuous improvement initiatives. You may be allocated to a specific industry sector or work across a variety of industries, dependent upon the regional office you join.   

Audit relies on an investigative approach, and you’ll challenge and question to ensure high audit quality. The work is challenging, yet rewarding, and those who are resilient, agile and have a curious mindset will thrive, working alongside some of the brightest minds in business and the support this brings.

On this programme, you’ll study for the either the ACA or CA depending on office location. For those joining an office in Scotland we offer the ICAS (CA).  Our Empowered (ACA) and ICAS (CA) Programme offers you the chance to work and study over the 3 years, near your KPMG office and follow blended work experience and study (classroom and online learning) towards your qualification, local to your home office location. Once completed, you’ll have gained valuable technical skills, a broad commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of one or more industry sectors, all of which will empower you to build an exciting and varied long-term career with us in audit.

Audit is the largest of our UK practices and our teams provide independent insight, challenge and high-quality audit expertise to organisations of all shapes and sizes.  Our work in audit is all about examining organisations and ensuring their published accounts provide a 'true and fair' view of their financial position and results.

As a graduate trainee, you’ll have the chance to work on complex audit engagements and play a big part in our continuous improvement initiatives. You may be allocated to a specific industry sector or work across a variety of industries, dependent upon the regional office you join.

Audit relies on an investigative approach, and you’ll challenge and question to ensure high audit quality. The work is challenging, yet rewarding, and those who are resilient, agile and have a curious mindset will thrive, working alongside some of the brightest minds in business and the support this brings.

On this programme, you'll study for the ACA qualification via the intensive study route, frontloading most of the exams in your first year. Once completed, you’ll have developed valuable technical skills, broad commercial understanding, and in-depth knowledge of one or more industry sectors, all of which will empower you to build an exciting and varied long-term career with us in audit.

Technology underpins many of the most influential organisations in the world. It enables the biggest business decisions and connects people around the globe. The opportunities that technology provides are matched only by its potential threats and risks – and this is where we come in.

We work as one team with our Financial Audit colleagues and are responsible for bringing technology specialist skills to the audit. We support the audit in the evaluation of IT systems that underpins an organisation’s key financial processes. Our work gives us exposure to some of the largest global organisations, through to local medium/large sized businesses across all industry sectors, as well as to the breadth of technology used by these organisations e.g. complex Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, emerging technologies and legacy systems. The role of technology in audit is becoming more significant as audited entities continue to embrace technology at a fast pace with bots, Cloud and Blockchain being the future norm.

The team provides specialist IT audit support to our external and internal audits, including the use of data analytics, as well as attestation over the use of technology at third parties. We assess the control risks related to the information assets, either in IT management processes, financial and operational applications, technology infrastructure or technology projects. The nature of our work is largely investigative, whereby we look at the processes and controls that an organisation has in place to secure the data transacted through their IT systems.

Our 3 year graduate programme is designed to offer audit work experience, exposure and the support you need to secure a successful career in Technology Audit (Information Risk Management). We will help you to develop your technology, process and data audit skills, commercial acumen and gain a flair for business to enable you to deliver quality outcomes and real value results. As a graduate, it provides a solid grounding for understanding IT. Whilst you don’t necessarily need to be a technical guru (our current graduates have degrees in a variety of subjects), we are looking for individuals who have a desire to get involved in a variety of projects. Most importantly, you’ll have an appetite to learn about technology and how we can best support audit engagements in assessing IT control environments.

Accounting Advisory and Assurance (AAA) provides both a broad range of accounting advice relating to major business transactions or transformations and assurance services over financial and non-financial information, processes and controls outside of financial statements. Projects will vary between those focussed on the application of technical accounting and those providing assurance services. Accounting focused projects may include accounting policy conversions and GAAP analysis, preparation of financial statements or carve out accounts, merger and acquisition activity, implementation support for new accounting standards, group restructurings and training. Assurance projects involve the provision of opinions over varied elements including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics, non-financial metrics, sector specific regulations, contractual compliance and grants. As a member of the team you will have the opportunity to work with cross-functional teams including Transaction Services, Consulting, Corporate Finance, Audit and Tax.

Our AAA Graduate Programme is designed to help you gain and refine business, accounting and assurance skills, as well as provide opportunities to deliver insight, challenge and high quality on various aspects of financial and non-financial functions. You'll be equipped with valuable technical skills, broad commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of different industry sectors.

Dependent upon the regional office you join, you may be allocated to a specific industry sector or across a variety of industries - the companies we work with vary in size, complexity and maturity. Some travel may be required for work and because this work is seasonal, you can expect a greater workload at the busiest times of the year.

You are also likely to be given the opportunity to travel around the UK as part of the role and many of our graduates have had the opportunity to travel internationally for certain projects in recent years.

Like the companies we work with, we're having to adapt to new ways of working, virtualising the AAA experience where required and adjusting to new working patterns, physical adjustments in our offices and new ways of interacting with our colleagues as well as the organisations we work with - we are harnessing technology to help underpin this change.