Graduate Audit - Accounting Advisory and Assurance (ACA)

3-year KPMG Accounting Advisory & Assurance Graduate Programme covering accounting advisory, sustainability assurance, controls assurance or transaction assurance, helping clients manage accounting issues, risks, controls and regulatory requirements.

Job description

Why Accounting Advisory and Assurance?

We’re a specialist team that help businesses tackle a wide variety of complex accounting issues and offer the broadest range of advice. We give confidence by delivering assurance over non-financial areas. This allows businesses to adapt to demands, improve financial performance and act in the most sustainable way. 

Life as an Accounting Advisory and Assurance graduate

You’ll join one of the four following areas:  

The first is Accounting Advisory Services, where you’ll offer guidance to businesses on the latest developments in accounting standards. Translating their complex accounting issues into clear and expert advice.  

Another of our teams is Sustainability Assurance. We help businesses to meet the assurance requirements of rapidly changing regulatory standards in this area. You’ll examine a variety of different topics, from greenhouse gas emissions through to waste, human rights, diversity and other non-financial metrics.  

If you join our Controls Assurance team, you’ll assess how well our clients operate their business processes, helping them to become aware of potential risks and build customer confidence. You could be reviewing technology processes such as system access, data security and cyber resilience, or operational processes such as investment management and payroll, across a variety of industries.  

And finally, in Transactions Assurance, you’ll help support businesses prepare for major transactions like mergers, acquisitions or listing on a public stock exchange. 

Whichever team you join, you’ll also have the opportunity to collaborate closely with other KPMG teams including Financial and Technology Audit, Transaction Services, Consulting, Corporate Finance and Tax.

Your future

It’s challenging and rewarding work, where you’ll have the support of your senior leaders, engagement leader, peers and the broader Audit community. Be at your best and build your network in an inclusive and diverse environment, while we equip you with the skills, tools and intelligent systems you need to grow and learn. 

On this programme you'll study for the ACA qualification, or CA equivalent in Scotland, which will help you develop valuable technical skills, broad commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of different industry sectors, empowering you to build an exciting and varied long-term career. 

Qualifications:

ACA or CA equivalent (Scotland locations)

Entry Requirements:

At KPMG, everyone brings a unique perspective, and we want to ensure that you have the best opportunity to demonstrate your potential. We want to discover your individual strengths and attributes to help us to know whether you’ll enjoy working here and how you’ll thrive. That’s why we operate an open access policy and an application process that will assess both your qualifications and your qualities. 

Generally, you’ll be expected to demonstrate the following grades (*or equivalents), to show that you’re able to successfully study for professional qualifications. If you are a few grades or points short, we would still encourage you to apply, as your application will be reviewed together with your performance in our assessments. 

You‘ll also have the opportunity to provide additional information for us to assess your application and potential in the context of your socio-economic background and/or any extenuating circumstances, which may have a positive uplift on your academic achievements through contextual recruitment.

• GCSE Maths Grade 5 or B* 

• GCSE English Language Grade 5 or B* 

• 120 UCAS points* from your ‘top’ 3 A Level grades, excluding General Studies 

• 2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline. 

Key Skills:

Throughout the recruitment process we will be looking to learn more about your strengths.

To be successful on this programme, you will be required to demonstrate the strengths that we look for in our graduates at KPMG.