Graduate Programmes: What is Advisory?
Advisory is just what you’d expect – we advise clients on their most pressing business challenges. So whether you’re consulting on organisational change, ambitious growth strategies or cyber security, there’ll be every opportunity for you to flex your intellect and analytical skills.
Things can change quickly here at KPMG. That means you’ll need to be ready to seize every opportunity that comes your way on projects ranging from a week to a year, from Swindon to Singapore. Every client is different so we look for people who come from all walks of life and who can look at commercial issues from every angle. And whilst every consultancy project is uniquely challenging, you can be sure that you’ll have the exposure and variety you need to rapidly develop your professional skills, network and career.
Areas of interest within Advisory
Business Consulting
As a business professional at KPMG, you’ll benefit from the scope, support and exposure you need to develop your skills and career in Management Consulting, Actuarial, Risk & Regulatory, Economics, People and Change or The Strategy Group.
Financial Advisory
Supported by our largest qualifications training team, you’ll gain the ACA, analytical expertise and experience needed to become an expert in Forensic, Accounting Advisory or Deal Advisory.
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Business Consulting
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Financial Advisory
Business Consulting
In Business Consulting, we draw on our wealth of experience to help clients increase theirs. Whether you join our graduate programme in Actuarial, Management Consulting, Economics, The Strategy Group or Risk & Regulatory, you’ll be able to draw on your training, knowledge and experience to provide well-rounded advice and detailed insights – ultimately becoming an invaluable resource to high profile clients.
World-class skills
At KPMG, you’ll have a big part to play in our future. That’s why we’ll make sure you have the chance to cut your teeth across a range of sectors and projects. You can also look forward to support from our wider business areas, our diverse graduate community and the dedicated training team in Financial Services. Business Consulting at KPMG can offer you the scope to drill deeper into a specialist area or develop a broad range of consultancy skills.
Every client is different so it makes sense that our consultants are too. To truly shine, you’ll need to enjoy the pressures of fast-paced challenging work. Meanwhile as a confident, progressive thinker with entrepreneurial flair, you won't be afraid to get your hands dirty and throw yourself into every opportunity on offer. To learn more about your role and our current options, explore our programmes below.
Actuarial
Acting as an expert adviser to the insurance industry, our Actuarial team helps 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.
If you’re a numerate graduate who enjoys the challenge of communicating complex concepts, this programme can offer the opportunities you need to achieve professional qualifications and a successful career in insurance.
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 our clients to solve complex business challenges.
At a glance
| Business area | Advisory – Business Consulting – Actuarial |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries |
| Location | Various |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
From day one you’ll be on a structured path towards gaining a professional qualification, studying towards the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' exams on subjects including:
- Financial mathematics and modelling
- Probability and statistics
- Financial reporting and economics
- Actuarial risk management
- Life and general insurance
Exams are held twice a year, and you can sit as many papers as you like in one sitting. At KPMG we encourage and reward quick qualification and expect our students to qualify in three to five years. Studying is primarily undertaken by a correspondence course; you will also receive internal support from KPMG and attend external tutorials. You will need a high level of commitment.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
Economics and Regulation
Our Economics and Regulation team uses economic arguments, supported by figures, to build compelling cases for a wide range of clients in disputes, negotiations with their regulators or discussions with their competition authorities. We draw on first-class accountancy, business advisory and regulatory process knowledge to produce persuasive arguments supported by the strongest evidence available, without losing sight of commercial reality.
Here, you’ll develop your commercial and business acumen on a range of projects. And your experiences and responsibilities will be as varied as the people you work with. One day you could be helping to value a debt portfolio by modelling the chances of default, the next giving evidence on commodity prices in a commercial dispute or supporting a telecoms company in negotiations with their regulator.
This three-year programme is designed to help you build up your commercial and business skills through a mixture of internal training and practical work experience.
We bring together the brightest economic minds from all kinds of backgrounds, to provide the best services for our varied client base. At KPMG, it’s your talent that counts, not your background.
At a glance
| Business area | Advisory – Business Consulting – Economics and Regulation |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Location | London |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
The training and development of every individual within our broad community of professionals is critical to the future success of our business. Our people give their best and we reward them by helping them to fulfil their potential through industry-leading training and development. As a graduate trainee at KPMG you will also have access to The Academy - it’s our unique approach to bringing out the best in you. Learning activities and events, active development experiences and interactive community initiatives all come together to help you learn, grow and be inspired to reach your full potential.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
Management Consulting
Management Consulting is a key priority area for our business – and invaluable to many of our clients’ businesses too, as we help them to address some of their hottest topics. The focus of everything we do is to help add lasting value and enhance their performance by delivering sustainable improvements to their business. On this programme, you’ll be given the chance to gain exposure across a range of disciplines – offering an unrivalled insight into KPMG.
Our Management Consulting 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 trainee on the Management Consulting Graduate programme, you’ll be helping to add value to our clients and business from the start. Working with our amazing clients that include some of the most well-known and largest organisations in the world, Management Consulting is dynamic and fast-paced. Enhancing businesses across a number of sectors through a wide variety of challenges; every day is different.
At a glance
| Business area | Advisory – Business Consulting – Management Consulting |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Location | London & various regional offices |
| Qualifications you'll work for | CIMA (or certificate CIMA followed by a bespoke Masters in Human Resource Management with CIPD accreditation) |
Training and development
On the Management Consulting Graduate Programme you will study towards the full CIMA qualification. Throughout your studies, you’ll be given support and guidance from our Professional Qualification Training (PQT) team.
Our large full-time Professional Qualification Training team is dedicated to giving you the best chance of passing your exams first time. KPMG’s programmes are underpinned by an online portal so you can access technical content and learning activities, share information and contact your tutors for all the support you need at the click of a button.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
People and Change
The People and Change practice transforms the performance of organisations across the world by changing the way people are led, managed and developed. We do this by focusing on two areas of the change agenda – delivering the people agenda on large scale, complex, transformational change programmes and transforming the HR function.
Our People and Change 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 trainee on this programme, you will work closely with teams in the wider Management Consulting and Advisory functions to gain exposure across a range of disciplines – offering an unrivalled insight into KPMG. You’ll also be helping to add value to our clients and business from the start. Working with our amazing clients that include some of the most well-known and largest organisations in the world.
At a glance
| Business area | Business Consulting – People and Change |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | CIMA certificate, followed by a CIPD accredited qualification in Human Resource Management. |
| Location | London & various regional offices |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
On the People and Change Graduate Programme you will study for CIMA certificate, followed by a CIPD accredited qualification in Human Resource Management. Throughout your studies, you’ll be given support and guidance from our Professional Qualification Training (PQT) team.
Our large full-time Professional Qualification Training team is dedicated to giving you the best chance of passing your exams first time. KPMG’s programmes are underpinned by an online portal so you can access technical content and learning activities, share information and contact your tutors for all the support you need at the click of a button.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
Risk and Regulatory
Our Financial Services Risk and Regulatory teams act as advisers to our clients who want to keep on top of current issues and industry best practices in an evolving marketplace.
Working closely with international regulators and financial institutions, we’ve built our reputation on our impressive technical and practical experience. Here, we not only provide our clients with value-adding thought leadership – but our graduates too.
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’re considered as areas of high priority, change and growth within KPMG too.
This three-year programme is designed to help you build up your commercial and business skills through a mixture of internal training and practical work experience.
At a glance
| Business area | Advisory – Business Consulting – Risk and Regulatory |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | CFA (Risk) or CISI (Regulatory) |
| Location | London & various regional offices |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
Within the Risk and Regulatory Graduate Programme, the qualification you will study depends on which team you join.
If you join Risk, you’ll study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification. Within Regulatory you’ll study for the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments Wealth Management Masters. Both of these qualifications will help to broaden and deepen your knowledge and experience of the financial sector. Targeted training courses and the chance to gain vital on-the-job experience are also a key part of the Risk and Regulatory Graduate Programme.
KPMG has a full-time Professional Qualification Training team – dedicated to giving you the best chance of passing your exams first time. KPMG’s programmes are underpinned by an online portal so you can access technical content and learning activities, share information and contact your tutors for all the support you need at the click of a button.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
The Strategy Group
The Strategy Group is a dynamic and fast-growing team, where you will work through complex and challenging issues facing our 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 accelerate momentum and enhance our presence in our priority sectors.
Our Strategy Group 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 our global 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. Working with exciting clients that include some of the largest and best known organisations in the world from a number of sectors in response to a wide variety of challenges, every project and indeed every day is different.
At a glance
| Business area | Advisory – Business Consulting – The Strategy Group |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) |
| Location | London |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
On The Strategy Group Graduate programme, you’ll follow a full CIMA study path completing the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting, then the CIMA Diploma in Management Accounting. Beyond this you will pursue the full CIMA qualification or gain other relevant qualifications as you progress your career.
KPMG has a large full-time Professional Qualification Training team – dedicated to giving you the best chance of passing your exams first time. KPMG’s programmes are underpinned by an online portal so you can access technical content and learning activities, share information and contact your tutors for all the support you need at the click of a button.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
Financial Advisory
Our Financial Advisory programmes can open some impressive doors. Join us in Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, Restructuring, Forensic or Accounting Advisory Services and you’ll work towards the ACA – and a richly diverse career with an industry leader.
Whilst each area is as unique as the individuals who work here, you’ll definitely be working on projects across a range of locations and sectors to support and enhance high-profile businesses. That means you could be helping advise organisations on managing litigation risk, assisting with a distressed business, providing mergers and acquisitions advice for a pre-deal evaluation or supporting your client to detect and prevent fraud. Whatever the project, you can be sure it will be exciting, fast-paced and challenging.
Commercial expertise
If you’re numerate, ambitious and want to work with some of the best minds in the business, we’ll build and develop your skills. It’s the perfect platform for graduates who are looking to become a specialist in their chosen field. To learn more about your role and our current options, explore our programmes below.
Accounting Advisory Services
Accounting Advisory Services (AAS) is divided into two main service lines: technical accounting and transport advisory.
Working closely with our clients to understand and define their commercial and business needs, we combine our expert accounting skills with strong project management and consultancy knowledge to develop and implement the recommended solution. To deliver tailor-made solutions to a diverse client base, we recognise the value of a diverse team. At KPMG, it’s your talent, intelligence and dedication that counts, not your background.
Joining our AAS Graduate Programme, you’ll have the opportunity to get involved in a range of different projects across our main technical accounting and transport advisory service lines. On the technical accounting side, you’ll work closely with our private and public sector clients to assist them in areas ranging from the implementation of new accounting requirements to group restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. On the transport advisory side, you’ll be a part of a market-focused team specialising in the rail industry, and supporting companies bidding for major rail and bus franchises and concessions.
This three-year programme is designed to help you gain and refine business and accounting skills, as well as grow your expertise advising our clients on various aspects of their financial functions.
At a glance
| Business area | Financial Advisory - Accounting Advisory Services |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | ACA |
| Location | London |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
The training and development of our professionals is critical to the future success of our business, which is why our people are trained to become experts in their field and are supported in studying for a professional qualification.
In Accounting Advisory Services we currently offer two different routes to achieving the ACA qualification:
- Intensive Programme
- Empowered Programme
Should you decide to apply for our Financial Advisory – Accounting Advisory Services Graduate Programme, you will have the opportunity to choose between applying for our ACA Intensive programme or our well established ACA Empowered Training programme.
All programmes take three years to complete. They just offer different routes to achieving success. The routes available depend on which office you join. You should not underestimate how much of your first three years will be spent studying. Be sure that you are joining a firm that takes your development as seriously as you do. KPMG also has a full-time Professional Qualification Training team – dedicated to giving you the best chance of passing your exams first time.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
Forensic
Our Forensic team helps clients to protect their business by reducing reputational risk and commercial loss. Here we combine accounting investigation, technology and industry skills, to step 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, dispute advisory, contract governance and intellectual property services, we help to diffuse challenging situations.
Our Forensic Graduate Programme is designed to build your commercial and business awareness across the Forensic practice. Growing your skills and gaining exposure in Investigation and Compliance, Dispute Advisory Services, and Intellectual Property and Contract Governance, you’ll help clients across a variety of sectors and services.
With structured internal training and on-the-job learning, this three-year programme will give you a strong foundation, great client experience and core consulting skills. All in an environment that embraces diversity and the positive impact it has on our business, clients and the community.
At a glance
| Business area | Financial Advisory – Forensic |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | ACA (CA in Scotland) |
| Location | Nationwide. Please search website for latest location availability |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
The training and development of every individual in our community of professionals is critical to the success of our business. Which is why we’ll train you to become an expert in your field, and support you to study for professional qualifications - the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Qualification (ACA) or the Institute of Chartered Accountants (CA) in Scotland.
In Forensics we currently offer two different routes to achieving the ACA qualification:
- Intensive Programme
- Empowered Programme
Should you decide to apply for our Financial Advisory – Forensic Graduate Programme, you will have the opportunity to choose between applying for our ACA Intensive programme or our well established ACA Empowered Training programme.
All programmes take three years to complete. They just offer different routes to achieving success. The routes available depend on which office you join. You should not underestimate how much of your first three years will be spent studying. Be sure that you are joining a firm that takes your development as seriously as you do. KPMG also has a full-time Professional Qualification Training team – dedicated to giving you the best chance of passing your exams first time.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
Deal Advisory
Deal Advisory is a fast-moving area of our advisory business. Continually enhancing value for our clients across the deal and economic cycle, our specialists guide them through the entire process – from the initial concept of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.
Our wealth of experience across the deal cycle gives us access to what’s happening in the heart of key sectors, and enables you to learn from the very best.
Combining structured training, work experience and on-the-job coaching, this three-year programme is a great foundation to your career – giving you a broad commercial awareness of the challenges a business faces across the deal and economic cycle.
Initially joining Corporate Finance, Restructuring or Transaction Services, we will work with you during your programme to offer you a secondment opportunity into a different area of Deal Advisory to help you develop your experience and networks.
At a glance
| Business area | Financial Advisory - Deal Advisory |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | ACA (or CA in Scotland) |
| Location | Nationwide |
| Entry requirements | Yes |
Training and development
The training and development of our professionals is critical to the future success of our business. Which is why our people are trained to become experts in their field and are supported in studying for a professional qualification.
In Deal Advisory we currently offer two different routes to achieving the ACA qualification:
- Intensive Programme
- Empowered Programme
Should you decide to apply for our Financial Advisory – Deal Advisory Graduate Programme, you will have the opportunity to choose between applying for our ACA Intensive programme or our well established ACA Empowered Training programme.
Both programmes take three years to complete. They just offer different routes to achieving success. The routes available depend on which office you join. You should not underestimate how much of your first three years will be spent studying. Be sure that you are joining a firm that takes your development as seriously as you do. KPMG also has a full-time Professional Qualification Training team – dedicated to giving you the best chance of passing your exams first time.
KPMG’s programmes are underpinned by an online portal so you can access technical content and learning activities, share information and contact your tutors for all the support you need at the click of a button.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
Deal Advisory Mandarin
The Deal Advisory Mandarin Speaking Programme is part of the wider Deal Advisory Graduate Programme, and a unique opportunity to develop into a global professional.
For people who are fluent in English and Mandarin, and have an interest in experiencing both the UK and Chinese markets, it combines structured training, work experience and on-the-job coaching to equip you with the professional skills and experience you need. You’ll spend a minimum of six months on secondment in China once qualified.
Deal Advisory is a fast-moving area of our Advisory business. Continually enhancing value for our clients across the deal and economic cycle, our specialists guide them through the entire process – from the initial concept of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.
Our wealth of experience across the deal cycle gives us access to what’s happening in the heart of key sectors, and enables you to learn from the very best.
The programme is designed to give you a broad commercial awareness of the challenges a business faces across the deal and economic cycle in both the UK and China. Initially joining either Corporate Finance, Restructuring or Transaction Services, we will work with you during your programme to offer you a secondment opportunity into a different area of Deal Advisory to help you develop your experience and networks.
At a glance
| Business area | Financial Advisory - Deal Advisory Mandarin |
| Length of programme | Three years |
| Qualifications you'll work for | ACA |
| Location | London |
| Entry requirements | Yes. You’ll also need to be fluent in both English and Mandarin. |
Training and development
The training and development of every individual in our community of professionals is critical to the success of our business. Which is why we’ll train you to become an expert in your field, and support you to study for professional qualification - the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Qualification (ACA).
Our well estabilished ACA Empowered Training programme spreads the ACA examinations over the lifetime of the three year training contract so that you are able to build up your technical knowledge over time and can apply what you are learning in training to your work place experience gradually.
Once you are qualified we’ll offer a secondment in China for at least six months. After this you’ll further develop and specialise in your chosen field and we’ll provide more training to support your ongoing development as required.
By joining KPMG you’ll be joining a long list of graduates who’ve already excelled in their professional exams. The fact that KPMG trainees consistently outperform Institute pass marks is a real testament to our people and the quality of our training.
Find out more about how our support and training will benefit you.
