Closing date for applications
Ongoing, although early application advised
Everyone's different. Fortunately so are we.
We focus on being a bold and positive
leader in our chosen markets and within the
accounting profession. We're the UK's fifth
largest accountancy firm, with 29 UK offices
and 4,400 staff, providing advice to clients
of every description. We've got a presence
in over 100 different countries, so there's the
potential for international exposure and scope
to realise your ambitions.
We believe in giving people responsibility
- early on
We are looking for graduates to join our
assurance, tax, business risk services, recovery
and reorganisation and actuarial departments.
We encourage our trainees to take ownership
and drive their development by putting their
new skills into practice straight away. So
whether you're working with a household
name or a smaller client, you'll be faceto-
face with finance directors, government
bodies business owners, influential nonexecutive
directors and well-known financial
institutions
We believe in providing specialised training
Our graduate scheme has been designed to
help you become a qualified professional as
smoothly and quickly as possible. Our national
induction programme and training courses
are held at our dedicated training centre,
Bradenham Manor, where you will gain
essential business, technical and professional
skills through a selection of courses. Beyond
qualification, your career development will
feature specialist and managerial training, and
for some people, progression to partnership.
We believe in offering variety
However, what matters most is the work
you will be doing on a day-to-day basis. Our
trainees work across a variety of different
sectors and within different teams to develop
a breadth of skills. Secondments and transfers
into different specialisms across the firm
are commonplace and our international
secondment programme opens up avenues to
experience the global opportunities that are
open to our people.
Try us out?
The only way to understand what the job is
really like is to spend time doing the work
of a trainee yet with no strings attached.
At Grant Thornton, we offer penultimate
year students summer internships and
twelve month placements in tax, audit and
recovery & reorganisation. Our placements
are designed to give you an insight into Grant
Thornton in order to gain an understanding
of our business, our clients, our people and
our culture. The placement will also help you
determine whether you want to pursue a career
in professional services and give you the
opportunity to receive a graduate programme
offer before you return to university for your
final year.
Who should apply?
We're searching for people like us: perceptive,
creative and willing to challenge convention.
You should have minimum of 300 UCAS
points (or equivalent) to apply for the
following qualifications: ACA, CA, CIPFA
and CTA or 240 UCAS points (or equivalent)
for ACCA. You should be expecting a 2.1
Honours degree, or better, in any discipline
and will have a minimum of B grades in
GCSE Mathematics and English language.