KPMG-UnitedKingdom Hiring for Graduate Consulting – Forensic (ACA) Manchester Autumn 2023 Job at Manchester, England Full Time

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. We help to diffuse challenging situations through investigations and compliance, fraud risk management, corporate intelligence, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and dispute advisory services.

Our Forensic Graduate programme is designed to build your commercial and business awareness. You’ll help clients across a variety of sectors and services, gaining a breadth of experience, and helping to make a meaningful difference for the businesses we serve. With the KPMG community at your side, you’ll study towards the Institute of Chartered Accountants qualification (ACA) and be supported to grow in your own way.

The Consulting Forensic Graduate programme gives you the opportunity to build skills and experience in one of our specialist areas:

• Investigations and Compliance: This is the largest team within Forensic, often working with clients in sensitive and complex environments to conduct independent investigations.
• Dispute Advisory Services: The Dispute Advisory Services team helps prevent and resolve commercial disputes by supporting our clients to assess damages and resolve accounting, audit and finance-related issues.
• Economics: Our Economics practice delivers expert advice and analysis for corporates, government bodies and regulatory authorities helping them to make better business and public policy decisions in today’s more complex and faster-paced landscape.
• Infrastructure Government & Health Transport & Infrastructure Advisory: This team provides specialist financial, commercial and strategic advice to the transport sector, both public and private sector clients, focusing on the rail and bus markets in the UK and globally.
• Contract Performance & Insight: Our CP&I team provides contract performance services to help clients get the best from their existing commercial contracts. We use a mix of core consulting, forensic investigation, and technology, to deliver value for clients across a diverse range of industries including Public Sector, Infrastructure, Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas and Financial Services.

At KPMG, you’ll find that work is no longer a place we go, it’s a contribution we make. We’re creating a tech-driven business to empower and equip our people to be outstanding in delivery, no matter where they work – through inspiring collaboration spaces and new technologies. In your role, you’ll work flexibly across your location region – at engagement sites, our offices and home.

If you have an eye for detail, good analytical skills and enjoy problem-solving, this could be the programme for you. We’ll support you to thrive and make your mark, while building a meaningful career.

Capability: Consulting Programme Length: 3 years Qualifications: ACA 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’ve designed our application process to assess everyone’s potential in the context of their educational and personal circumstances to ensure that you have the skills to succeed at KPMG.

You’ll generally be expected to demonstrate the following (*or equivalents). However, if you do not meet all the below, and are a few grades or points short, then we would still encourage you to apply, as you will be given the option to provide additional information that enables us to assess your application and potential in the context of your socio-economic background and/or any extenuating circumstances. You can find out more here .

• Grade 5 or B GCSE* Maths
• Grade 5 or B GCSE* English Language
• 120 UCAS points* from your ‘top’ 3 grades, excluding General Studies under the 2017 tariff point system at A Level (300 UCAS points pre-2017)
• 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.

Learn more about what we look for and how to apply here .

Training and Development:

The training and development of our people is critical to the future success of our business. We want to empower you to grow in your own way, to feed your curiosity and embrace a growth mindset in an environment where learning is continuous. Therefore, we have created a rich curriculum and learning community to help you build your skills and fulfil your potential. This ranges from an immersive 5-day induction experience to help you transition to the world of work, formal training courses, leadership knowledge bites, learning journals, online courses and networking events – all aligned to our ‘learn for a lifetime’ strategy designed to help you gain an advantage for life.

In addition, in Forensic we currently offer the ACA qualification. The Accelerated Programme is KPMG’s ACA offering. This is a front-loaded programme which uses innovative technology and is delivered via a blend of online and in-centre classroom courses. The ACA Accelerated programme enables you to upskill quickly, so you can make your mark. For the first year of your training contract, you will focus purely on your professional qualification, by completing 12 out of 15 ACA exams. You will also have opportunities to reconnect with your home department and peer group, as well as complete internal training and extra skills sessions. In the remaining two years of your training contract, you will concentrate on building up a fantastic range of work experience, complete your final three ACA exams and will have the technical knowledge to apply to your role in the workplace.

The entire programme is supported by a wide range of mechanisms that will be applied by your tuition provider (BPP) and KPMG’s dedicated Early Careers Development team. This newly designed programme has been structured with you in mind and truly empowers you to accelerate your learning journey at KPMG.

Additional Information:

Please visit our Applying to KPMG page to discover more about our application process.

Visit our International Students page to find out more about visas and requirements.

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