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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, both working with some of the biggest companies in the UK and global insurance market:

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. 

Like our clients, we're having to adapt. This means 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.

We believe that businesses succeed by delivering consistently brilliant customer and employee experiences. We believe in the importance of placing the customer at the heart of every decision. And this isn’t just our belief, this is how the world’s most innovative and valuable companies have delivered unrivalled growth.

And KPMG recognise this too. Customer is a priority growth area for our Consulting practice.

We work with clients to understand their customers and employees, designing seamless and brilliant experiences as well as driving sustainable transformational change. On this programme, you’ll be given the chance to gain exposure across a range of our capabilities:

• Connected Front Office – working across Marketing, Sales and Service to radically improve the customer experience organisations offer, the efficiency with which it’s delivered and how the front office works in tandem with the middle and back office
• Powered Customer – this is all about how we can instil value within organisations by implementing large scale technology platforms such as CRM’s from Salesforce, Microsoft and the like
• Connected Insight – embedding the voice of the customer and more at the heart of decision making within an organisation through data and research driven insights

It’s a unique insight into how to help an organisation transform. Other than experience, our programme will train you with core consulting skills, and exposure to some of the most well-known and largest organisations in the world across sectors and industries, getting you ready to take on greater business challenges in the market.

In short, it’s a programme to get your career off to a flying start opening doors to Consulting progression, transfer to industry and more. It’s in your hands. Join us today and start making a difference.

This 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.

Management Consulting is a priority area for our Advisory business – and invaluable to our clients' businesses too, as we help them to address some of their hottest topics. We focus on helping clients add lasting value and enhance their performance by delivering sustainable improvements to their business.

Our Financial Transformation Graduate Programme within Management Consulting focuses on working with clients to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Finance function and generate real insights to help deliver value to the business. Through our core propositions we work to provide our clients with fact-based insights, utilising leading technology solutions to transform Finance functions. The key drivers of change for our clients are growth, regulatory reform, mergers and acquisitions, cost reduction and a need for better insights from data, and our service offerings reflect this demand.

As part of the team you will work with a range of clients including some of the most well-known and largest organisations in the world, spanning all sectors and industries. A key part of this role will be reacting to current industry issues and challenges; working with clients to understand the external pressures on their Finance functions and implementing and executing on their future finance strategies to enhance and grow the business. The Finance Transformation programme will give you the opportunity to work across the team’s core propositions: Enterprise Performance Management, Powered Finance, Intelligent Automation, Finance Systems and Data, Finance Function Transformation and Regulatory Change.

We welcome difference which is why we’re actively looking to attract and develop people from all walks of life. Why we're so focused on being represented by people from all sorts of backgrounds with diverse perspectives and ideas. We pride ourselves on being a place where your individuality valued; you can be yourself and achieve your potential.

Our Forensic team helps clients 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 3-year Forensic Empowered Graduate Programme is designed to build your commercial and business awareness across the Forensic practice. It also provides the opportunity 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 programme gives you opportunity to build skills and experience in our specialist area:

• Investigations and Compliance - this is the largest team within Forensic, often working with clients in sensitive and complex environments to conduct an independent investigation.

Our Forensic practice helps clients 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. The Forensic practice comprises teams specialising in investigations and compliance (including fraud risk management, corporate intelligence, anti-bribery), in anti-money laundering, in dispute advisory services and in accounting advisory services.

Our 3-year Forensic Intensive Graduate Programme is designed to build your commercial and business awareness. It also provides the opportunity 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.

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, 6-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 3 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 apply for the Forensic Intensive Graduate Programme in London you are applying to be based in the Dispute Advisory Services team. This team assists clients with the financial and accounting aspects of commercial disputes.

If you apply for Forensic Intensive Graduate Programme in Bristol, you are applying to join the Accounting Advisory Services team. This team leads on supporting clients ensuring the integrity of their Balance Sheet and provides technical accounting input to wider forensic projects.

In both cases there may also be opportunities to work with other teams across Forensic and across KPMG.

If you are interested in understanding how businesses operate, what risks they face and how decisions are made, then Governance, Risk and Compliance Services (GRCS) 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 control environment.

Our clients rely on us to provide valuable insight and commercial recommendations that will support them in achieving their business objectives by conducting in-depth analysis and assessments of data and business processes. Our services incorporate: Internal Audit and Risk Assurance, Governance, Risk and 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 our clients accordingly. 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. Areas of focus can include: Audits of processes and functions; Themed and rapid-response reviews; Regulatory assurance and Enterprise level risk reviews.
• 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. It is also imperative that organisations are able to identify and then effectively mitigate the risks that could prevent them from meeting their strategic objectives. We help organisations in areas such as: Governance and risk services; Internal controls transformation and, Internal controls compliance services.

On our 3 year GRCS Graduate Programme you’ll build your commercial and financial awareness by working alongside the companies we work with across a variety of sectors, supported by a structured internal training program and study towards the ACA or CA (in Scotland) qualification.

We offer the empowered  training path for our GRCS Graduate Programme –Our Empowered Programme offers you the chance to work and study near your KPMG office and follow blended work experience and study (classroom and online learning) towards ACA or CA (Scotland) qualification - local to your office location. Some travel will be required for work and exams will be spread out over the 3 year programme.

We’re reimagining how we work at KPMG. Our firm is creating a tech-driven business to empower and equip our people to be outstanding in delivery – through inspiring workspaces, innovative ways to collaborate and hybrid ways of working. In your role, you’ll work flexibly across your location region – at KPMG offices, engagement sites and from home.

Our Graduate 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.

Management Consulting is a priority area for our Advisory business – and invaluable to our clients’ businesses too, as we help them to address some of their hottest topics. We focus on helping clients add lasting value and enhance their performance by delivering sustainable improvements to their business. Our Operational Transformation Graduate Programme, within Management Consulting, focuses on working with clients to transform their operations and create resilient supply chains. Through our core propositions across Supply Chain and Procurement we work to provide clients with fact-based insights, utilising leading technology solutions to enhance the Supply Chain and Procurement functions. Typical client challenges include the need to invest in the latest technology; a desire to reduce the ethical impacts of their supply chain and wanting to realise greater value across their Operations.

Operational Transformation is about working with clients across their Supply Chain to improve visibility, efficiency and transparency. Clients are looking to build a Supply Chain that is agile, ethical and able to adapt to disruption and change. To support businesses in transforming their Operations, our work can include supporting a business to implement digital technologies, to identify cost and service improvements or to deliver more value through improved Procurement functions. Through our solutions we work to enable clients to deliver more, at a lower cost, whilst utilising leading technologies.

As part of the Operational Transformation team you will work with a range of clients including some of the most well-known and largest organisations in the world, spanning all sectors and industries. A key part of this role will be reacting to current industry issues and challenges; working with clients to understand the external pressures on their operations and implementing and executing an operational strategy to enhance and grow the business.

Closely aligned to Operational Transformation is our Defence Consulting team. This team focuses exclusively on the Defence Sector, working with clients from both government and industry on large, complex and critical strategic issues that impact their organisations. Here you will have the opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary teams to design and implement strategies covering a number of different areas including digital transformation, financial and commercial management, data and analytics, workforce transformation and operational improvement, delivering exciting and purposeful projects at the heart of the nation’s social agenda.

As a graduate on the People Consulting Graduate Programme, you’ll be helping to add value for our clients. 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 their organisations, leadership and employees to be ready, willing and able to implement change; and realise the benefits and investments that lead to sustained return on investment (ROI).

Join our People Consulting team and help us transform the performance of organisations by learning and focusing on client requirements within the following areas:

Workforce Transformation - Workforce Planning and Analytics, Talent Management, Performance Management, Digital Labour and Robotics, HR Policy/Employment Law.

Learning Solutions - Learning Strategy, Learning Transformation, Learning Content Design, Development and Management, Learning Technology, Learning Managed Services.

Digital HR Transformation - HR Strategy and Vision, HR Operating Model, HR Digitisation and Technology, Powered HR.

Organisational Transformation - Change Leadership, Organisation Design, Behavioural Change Management, Culture and Engagement, Behavioural Science, Employee Experience.

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 Consulting to gain exposure across a range of disciplines – offering an unrivalled insight into KPMG

Our work in Regulatory and Banking Risk is not only interesting and varied, it's also high profile. With the current economic climate and in view of the challenges facing the world today, clients and regulators are focusing ever more closely on risk and regulatory issues. For example we're helping our clients overcome global issues like Climate Risk and the COVID-19 pandemic.

We help our clients solve business problems by developing tailored and pragmatic solutions. It's become an area of high priority, change and growth within KPMG too. The work we do helps to make Financial Services safer and protect clients and their customers. This is what makes this an endlessly fascinating area for new graduate joiners.

Based in either our Risk or Regulatory team, our 3 year programme gives graduates the chance to build their experience and develop their expertise in risk management across the entire financial sector. Sectors include:

Banking Risk and Regulatory - Banking Risk & Regulatory work involves understanding clients’ issues and providing support, advice and project delivery across their boards, risk functions and finance functions.

Insurance Risk and Regulatory - here we help clients to respond to intervention and change from the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

Wealth and Asset Management - KPMG's Wealth and Asset Management Regulatory practice looks after the interests and helps a broad range of clients, from global asset managers with operations in multiple jurisdictions to smaller wealth managers who are predominantly UK focused.

It means being agile and innovative in the way we interact. It means harnessing technology and developing new ways of working, through remote and hybrid forms of working, providing our clients with the advice and support they need. It means embedding virtual solutions for our colleagues, so they continue to benefit from a collaborative working experience.

Financial Consulting is a market leader in financial reporting and business planning advice across a range of high-profile sectors of critical importance to the UK: the land transport sector; and the public sector more broadly.

Our Public Sector Advisory work focusses on delivering a range of financial transformation, financial management and reporting, accounting and other specialist financial advisory services across the public sector. Using our wealth of experience, we work together with our clients to understand their financial challenges, provide advice and implement recommendations.

Our Transport Advisory services focus on providing 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, infrastructure providers 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 making key strategic decisions.

As a graduate joining our Intensive Programme, you can expect to gain experience working in both of these areas.