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.

Customer is a priority growth area for our Consulting practice as it becomes ever-more critical for our clients’ businesses to address their customer strategy and delivery. We are in unprecedented times of change which has accelerated the customer and digital agenda and the way in which our clients’ businesses operate and deliver against them. The focus of everything we do is to help add lasting value and enhance performance by delivering sustainable improvements to their businesses. On this programme, you’ll be given the chance to gain exposure across a range of our capabilities from transformation, design, brand and marketing, data and analytics – offering an unrivalled insight into KPMG.

Our Customer 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.

In current times of disruption, like the clients we work with, we're having to adapt and evolve the way we work. This means new working patterns, physical adjustments in our offices and new ways of interacting with our colleagues and clients. Our customer practice is based across various locations in the UK and as such, we embrace a digital and collaborative way of working both within our own teams and with clients.

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.

We offer two different training paths for our Forensic Graduate Programmes – Intensive or Empowered. 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) 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 programme gives you opportunity to build skills and experience in one of our specialist areas: Investigations and Compliance; Dispute Advisory Services (DAS) and Contract Compliance.  

​The Empowered Programme is KPMG's blended ACA product (KPMG’s CA product is offered to all Scottish offices) where the onus is on you to take ownership of your studies and help shape your learning. The structure of the programme spreads the 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 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.

We offer two different training paths for our Forensic Graduate Programmes – Intensive or Empowered. Our 3 year Forensic Intensive 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 one of our specialist areas: Investigations and Compliance; Dispute Advisory Services (DAS) and Contract Compliance. 

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 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.

• 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. 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. We help organisations in areas such as: Governance and risk services; Internal controls transformation and, Internal controls compliance services.

On our 3 year IARCS Graduate Programme you’ll build your commercial and financial awareness by servicing 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 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 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 home office location. Some travel will be required for work and exams will be spread out over the 3 year programme.

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. 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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

You will gain expose to our 3 main proposition categories:

Business Strategy: Helping Executives to develop and operationalise strategy to meet their financial ambitions and create sustainable competitive advantage.

Operating Strategy: Advising clients on a range of strategic operational issues from efficiency improvement identification through to operating model strategy design.

Deal Strategy: Advising clients on strategic investment decisions in a range of transaction settings (buy-side, sell-side, refinancing, bid / contract tenders).

Transport & Public Sector Financial Consulting 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 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.

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

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