Consulting

Acting as an expert adviser to the insurance industry, our Actuarial team help organisations to manage financial risk. Here, you’ll be given the chance to use detailed analysis of past events to create accurate models of the future – and crucially, advise on their financial implications. It’s a highly technical role, best suited to graduates who are numerate, extremely ambitious and able to communicate complex ideas to non-specialists. Our Actuarial Graduate Programme is a great opportunity to build a varied career, gain the Actuarial qualification in three to five years, benefit from a range of training options and help clients to solve complex business challenges. Within Actuarial, there are two different areas which you could join:

Life Actuarial Services provides advice to the Life Insurance industry, who in turn provide investment related products (such as endowments or insurance bonds) or protection products (such as term assurance policies or critical illness cover). 

General Insurance covers the spectrum of business and personal risks, with types of insurance ranging from standard car and house to more exotic insurances covering satellites, oil rigs or hurricane damage. Changing regulations, new products and developing markets mean that nothing stands still in this challenging and demanding business area. 

Management Consulting is a priority area for – and invaluable to our clients too. We add lasting value and enhance our clients’ performance by delivering sustainable improvements to their businesses, with a strong focus on optimising customer relationships.  

On this programme, you’ll have the chance to gain exposure across a range of disciplines – giving you an unrivalled insight into business.

The programme is designed to give you the experience and core consulting skills you need tospecialise, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment- build your commercial understanding and business acumen to deliver real value to our clients including some of the most well-known global organisations. 

The opportunities that technology brings are matched only by its potential threats, which is why this growing team is an exciting and rewarding place to build a career. KPMG has been acknowledged by Forrester as a leader in the provision of cyber security consultancy. We are an expanding team that offers a range of cyber consulting services to meet a growing demand and provide a comprehensive range of cyber security solutions to many of the largest corporate companies in the world.

We help our clients to protect, detect and respond to high end cyber threats; helping them understand the cyber threat landscape, make sensible decisions on investment priorities, and build out the specialist capabilities they need to counter cyber attacks and other threats. We believe that cyber security is about helping our clients to harness business opportunities securely and protecting their clients’ personal information and intellectual property. For us, cyber security goes beyond technical issues and includes organisational design and changing peoples' behaviour; it is a holistic approach to understanding and mitigating the risk.

Our teams routinely work alongside KPMG’s broader advisory practice to link cyber security to financial crime, risk management, operational resilience, IT transformation and organisational design. Our 3 year graduate programme offers the client exposure and the support you need to build a successful career in cyber security consulting. You will develop core consulting and technical skills, commercial acumen, collaboration and team work with a flair for business to enable you to deliver real value to our clients.

If you are applying to this graduate programme, there is no doubt you will be aware of the vast, unstoppable reach of technology. Present and potent in every industry and every household, technology and the use of data, shape the way we live and work.

As a graduate at KPMG, you will learn the skills to analyse, advise and deliver solutions on a range of client issues. This could mean helping an investment bank manage systems and data compliance with trading regulations, or supporting a software giant in the release of their latest suite of products. We work extensively on data architecture, data quality and data governance and how data can be used for business advantage. Our teams work on projects such as integrating financial data with Cloud based general ledgers, risk management and risk reporting, and improved automation using cognitive techniques to reduce costs in key client processes.

We take pride in our people at KPMG. We look to recruit those with existing skills as well as those keen to develop a career in technology and to solve business issues in an innovative and sustainable manner. We work in teams and with clients to help solve problems quickly. We invest in new methods, new tools and new capabilities. If you are interested in a career in technology consulting at KPMG then we will invest in you.

Our Forensic team helps clients to protect their businesses by reducing reputational risk and commercial loss. Combining accounting investigation, technology and industry skills, we come in where facts and figures don’t agree, or where behaviour doesn’t comply with expectations or regulations. Through investigations and compliance, fraud risk management, corporate intelligence, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and dispute advisory services, we help to diffuse challenging situations.

Our Forensic Graduate Programme is designed to build your commercial and business awareness across the Forensic practice and enable you to qualify in 3 years. As well as the chance to study towards the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales qualification (ACA). You’ll receive structured internal training and opportunities to help clients across a variety of sectors and services.

The Empowered Programme is KPMG’s blended ACA product where the onus is on you to take ownership of your  studies  and  help  shape your learning. The structure of the programme spreads the ACA examinations over the lifetime of the 3 year training contract so that you are able to build up your technical knowledge, and can gradually apply what you are learning in training to your workplace experience.

Our Forensic team helps clients to protect their businesses by reducing reputational risk and commercial loss. Combining accounting investigation, technology and industry skills, we come in where facts and figures don’t agree, or where behaviour doesn’t comply with expectations or regulations. Through investigations and compliance, fraud risk management, corporate intelligence, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and dispute advisory services, we help to diffuse challenging situations.

Our Forensic Graduate Programme is designed to build your commercial and business awareness across the Forensic practice and enable you to qualify in 3 years. As well as the chance to study towards the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales qualification (ACA) or the Institute of Chartered Accountants (CA) in Scotland. You’ll receive structured internal training and opportunities to help clients across a variety of sectors and services.

The Intensive Programme is KPMG’s front-loaded, classroom-based ACA product which focuses on upskilling trainees more quickly. This means that for the first 12 months of your training contract you will solely focus on passing 14 out of 15 ACA exams, and come into the business on two work experience placements. One is a structured, six week work experience placement during the first quarter of the calendar year after you join, and the second comes after you have completed your 14 exams. The three main training hubs for the Intensive Programme are London, Birmingham and Manchester. Regardless of the selected home office, you will be expected to relocate to one area in order to dedicate the time to attend the programme for the first 12 months.

If you are interested in understanding how businesses operate, what risks they face and how decisions are made, then Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services (IARCS) is for you. Joining us means you’ll develop and refine your specialist business and accounting skills by improving our clients’ governance, risk management and controls.

Our clients rely on us to provide valuable insight and commercial recommendations by conducting in-depth analysis and assessments of data and business processes. Our services incorporate; Internal Audit and Risk Assurance, Governance Risk and Compliance, and Contract Compliance.

• Internal Audit and Risk Assurance - Internal Audit is about independent assurance that an organisation's risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively. We have a professional duty to provide an unbiased and objective view, and we report and advise. We apply a combination of assurance and consulting to look beyond financial risks and financial statements to consider wider issues such as the organisation's reputation, growth, environmental factors and the way it treats its employees. 
• Governance Risk and Compliance - robust governance is critical to businesses in a changing environment, and as the landscape evolves, new risks and compliance requirements emerge.
• Contract Compliance - many organisations rely on agreements with third parties to license software, create franchises, outsource manufacturing and distribution, or create joint ventures. Contracts in these cases can be extremely complex and high value. KPMG helps clients to increase their visibility of the third party’s compliance with the complex contractual terms and conditions in place, and supports them in exercising their contractual rights.

On our 3 year IARCS Graduate Programme you’ll build your commercial and financial awareness by servicing clients across a variety of sectors, supported by a structured internal training program and study towards the ACA qualification.

We offer two different training paths for our IARCS Graduate Programmes – Empowered or Intensive. All programmes take 3 years to complete; they just offer different routes to achieving success. Our ACA Intensive Programme offers you the chance, in year one to study full-time near a KPMG training hub in either London, Birmingham or Manchester – completing a 12 months study focus to pass 14 of 15 ACA exams and two work experience placements. Then in years 2 and 3 of the programme, you’ll work at your KPMG office base, focus on work experience, which includes some travel for client work, and complete exam 15 of 15.

As a graduate on the People Consulting Graduate Programme, you’ll be helping to add value to our clients and our firm from the start. Working with clients that include some of the most well-known and largest organisations in the world, you will enhance businesses across a broad range of sectors, face a wide variety of challenges and learn every day. Our clients often ask us how to support organisations, leadership and employees to be ready, willing and able to implement change; and realise the benefits and investments that lead to sustained ROI.

The world is becoming ever more complex, presenting new challenges for businesses when it comes to managing their workforces. Join of our People Consulting team and you’ll be trained in these capability areas; HR Technology and Transformation, Organisation Design, Behavioural Change Management, Workforce Intelligence (including HR Analytics), Talent Management and People Issues in M&A.

On our People Consulting Graduate programme you will work towards the Chartered Management Consultant Award and a CIPD accredited qualification in Human Resource Management. The programme is designed to give you the experience and core consulting skills you need to get your career off to a flying start. Starting as you mean to go on, you’ll build your commercial understanding and business acumen to  deliver real value to our clients straight away. On this programme, you will also work closely with teams across Advisory to gain exposure across a range of disciplines – offering an unrivaled insight into KPMG.

Our Financial Services Risk & Regulatory and Capital Markets teams act as advisers to global clients who want to keep on top of current issues and industry best practices in an evolving marketplace in the financial sector. We work closely with international regulators and financial institutions and have built our reputation by applying our KPMG colleagues' technical and practical experience to our clients’ needs. We not only provide clients with value-adding thought leadership – but our graduates too.

Graduates in this area follow a 3 year programme based in either the Risk, Regulatory or Capital Markets team. Following the credit crisis and resulting global economic challenges, the subjects of risk and regulation both continue to have a high profile. So understandably, these issues are not only a key focus for our clients, governments and regulators – they are considered areas of high priority, change, and growth within KPMG too. During the application process for the Risk, Regulatory and Capital Markets Graduate Programme you will have the potential opportunity to work across all sectors; Banking Risk and Regulatory, Insurance Risk and Regulatory, Wealth and Asset Management and Capital Markets. 

Through client work, skills training and professional qualifications, we'll support you throughout your career with the blend of development opportunities you need to reach your potential.

The Strategy Group is a dynamic and fast-growing team, where you will work through complex and challenging issues facing clients today. You’ll have the opportunity to work with people at all levels including senior management, offering strategic advice on business and operating models to our corporate, public sector and private equity clients. We offer advice in both an organic growth and transaction-related setting. It is an exciting time to join this team as we drive momentum and enhance our presence in our priority sectors.

Our Strategy Graduate Programme is designed to give you a broad and varied experience from both a sector and proposition perspective, and arm you with consulting skills to help accelerate your career. You will build your commercial understanding and business acumen to deliver real value to our clients straight away.

Our consultants get the opportunity to travel within the UK and internationally to meet the needs of the client base and while doing so acquire a broad range of transferable skills. You will join teams with a vibrant mix of expertise, industry experience and consulting skills, and get to work with bright individuals who have fun both inside and outside of work. You will work with some of the largest and best known organisations in the world from from a broad variety of sectors and respond to a wide variety of challenges - every project and every day is different.

Transport and Public Sector Accounting Advisory is a market leader in financial reporting and business planning advice to two high-profile sectors of critical importance to the UK: the land transport sector; and the public sector.

Our Transport Advisory team provides commercial and financial advice to both public and private sector clients in the land transport industry. Our main clients are private sector rail and bus operators and public sector land transport authorities. We help clients grow; improve the financial performance of their operations, and bid for multi-billion pound government contracts – providing robust financial analysis to support them in taking key strategic decisions.

Our Public Sector Accounting team delivers a range of accounting, financial reporting and financial management services across the public sector, with a particular specialism in defence. Using our wealth of experience we work together with our clients to understand their financial challenges, provide advice and implement recommendations.

As an intensive graduate joining the team, you can expect to gain experience working in both of these areas.