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Variety, opportunity and global reach

Bring the knowledge you’ve gained from your studies to help all types of clients – from entrepreneurial start-ups to multinationals. If you have the drive and determination to succeed, we’ll give you the support to get there.

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Careers in Advisory: Are you good at seeing the big picture?

Advisory helps businesses to improve their business performance in a dynamic, uncertain world.

When you work in Advisory, you’ll help your clients transform their businesses by helping them see new opportunities, respond to change and find smarter ways of operating. Your experiences will be wide and varied, with early responsibility to develop innovative solutions.

Apply your technical discipline to a range of technical, operational or business problems that organizations cannot solve themselves. Working in a small, specialist team is the best opportunity for you to learn to analyze and understand different operational situations and issues across a wide range of industries. Imagine the experience and contacts you will gain.

How long will it be before you see your ideas helping to improve your clients’ business performance?

Where you can focus

Within Advisory you can choose to work in one of three business areas. Each of these is split into a number of dedicated practices:

Careers in Assurance: Do you want to understand what makes a business tick?

Assurance helps organizations and their investors to understand a company’s financial health. It gives them confidence that the results they report give a true and fair picture of their business.

When you work in Assurance, you’ll develop rewarding client relationships with reputable business leaders in a wide variety of industries. People will see you as a trusted advisor, who helps them understand what’s really going on in their organization.

Discover how each part of a business operates — and what makes it succeed or fail. By understanding the different rules that guide business and financial decisions, you’ll learn how to investigate, analyze and report on an organization’s financial performance.

What doors will your strong relationships open for you in the future?

Where you can focus

When you first start, you’ll develop broad assurance skills across many areas – covering both audit and non-audit work. You can then call on this experience when it becomes time to narrow your focus. You might work in the following areas of Assurance:

1. A career in Audit and Accounting
Today’s global financial markets demand international consistency in accounting and auditing standards and approaches. You will have the challenge of meeting these using a range of resources, enabling you to help our clients navigate – and thrive – in this environment.

Within Audit and Accounting you can work in a variety of different areas, including:

External Audit

External Audit at Ernst & Young plays a huge role in preserving the integrity of the global business landscape. You can provide peace of mind to our clients by using your analytical skills to give companies, investors and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements, business-critical information or processes.

Your main aim will be to provide independent verification of our clients’ compliance with accounting principles. By doing so, you play an important role in helping businesses accurately reflect their financial picture and, in turn, protecting financial markets.

Climate Change and Sustainability

Our Climate Change and Sustainability Services team is grounded in our core skills in Assurance, Tax, Transactions and Advisory. Working in this area you’ll be able to help our clients understand business and regulatory threats and opportunities, explore and execute commercial transactions, monitor performance and assure public disclosures on progress.

Financial Accounting Advisory

As an assurance professional you’ll learn how to deliver relevant business and industry insights, and help non-audit clients focus on issues that matter to them. Through our Financial Accounting Advisory Services, you’ll help with many current critical issues, including IFRS conversion support, implementation of new accounting standards and assistance with public offerings.

2. Fraud Investigations & Disputes

Organizations need to respond effectively to the risk of fraud, comply with ever-increasing regulation, and take the right approach to business disputes. You’ll be helping our clients develop strategies to pre-empt, manage and resolve the risks of business conflict. You’ll also assist in investigating alleged misconduct, fraud and non-compliance with regulation.

Careers in Transactions: Do you work well in demanding situations?

Transaction Advisory Services helps businesses and government bodies make big decisions around their capital agenda by advising on how to raise, preserve, optimize and invest their capital in the best way possible. Do they need to buy a company or merge with a competitor? Should they sell an underperforming business? Do they have the right business model?

Working in Transactions puts you in the best position to guide clients making these critical decisions. Very soon you’ll get involved in highly strategic projects. You’ll see first-hand how important transactions are conceived, crafted and negotiated.

Your role may even involve being part of a team working across Asia-Pacific deals, giving you even greater exposure and opportunity to learn from colleagues across the area. In the process, you'll gain a reputation as a trusted business advisor.

Where will this reputation take you?

Where you can focus

As you develop your career in Transactions, you’ll be able to build technical depth and explore a breadth of business issues. To help you decide where to specialize, your first few years will be spent in at least three different areas of the business. Your options will include:

M&A Advisory

Today, more than ever, organizations must plan carefully for growth and analyze their capital agenda and related transactions in the context of their overall business strategy. As part of our M&A team you’ll help identify the right transaction and capital strategy for clients.

Transaction Real Estate

In this dynamic and complex market you’ll help clients develop and execute real estate transactions by providing objective and responsive advice. You’ll offer a dedicated and committed service to assist clients in achieving the potential of their real estate assets, portfolios or companies.

Project Finance

Working in this award-winning team, you’ll focus on Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects. You’ll learn about key infrastructure sectors, from energy to transport – enabling you to provide highly valued independent advice.

Transaction Support

A transaction can be one of the most complex and risky business propositions our clients can undertake. You will help them achieve the best possible outcome, from initial strategic assessment to implementation and post-integration. Your aim will be to improve their negotiating position and accelerate a smooth transaction with minimal disruption.

Restructuring

Join our market-leading Restructuring practice and you will help local and global clients change their organizations throughout the whole economic cycle. You’ll add to your technical knowledge with in-depth industry experience, building your understanding of the specific competitive challenges our clients face.

Transaction Tax

Every transaction has tax implications. Working with a worldwide network of professional advisors you’ll combine diverse cross-border transaction experience with local tax knowledge across a broad spectrum of industry sectors. This way you’ll help clients make informed decisions and navigate the tax implications of every transaction.

Operational Transaction Services

In this business area you’ll help clients drive operational value from their capital strategy. You’ll learn how to develop the right plan for complex integrations, divestments and carve-outs – and how to implement it properly. You’ll play a key role in an integrated approach that focuses on our clients’ financial, tax and operational needs.

Valuation & Business Modeling

As a transaction professional you will help clients evaluate and confirm their capital and growth strategies. You will work with clients in areas such as understanding the specific value proposition for complex business holdings and investments, and identifying non-core assets for divesting.

Careers in Tax: Do you have strong analytical skills?

Tax helps businesses to find their way through the maze of ever-changing and highly complex tax regulations.

When you work in Tax, you’ll develop specialist skills in a business area critical to every organization. Business leaders want to get on with running their companies. They need specialist advice to understand the right tax approach and comply with the law.

Working in a small team of different specialists, you’ll gain research and analysis skills as you find and interpret tax law for a variety of different organizations. Turn your tax experience into practical business advice as you act as a problem solver for your clients.

Can you imagine what you will achieve with highly valued skills and specialist knowledge?

Business Tax Services

Our business tax professionals help businesses meet complex demands for tax reporting, compliance and planning, and tax policy and controversy.

Business Tax consists of different service offerings, including:

• Business Tax Advisory
• Business Tax Compliance
• Tax Accounting & Risk Advisory

You’ll have the chance to gain experience across multiple service offerings, with long-term opportunities for focusing in one or more area.

You’ll also work with clients ranging from entrepreneurs to long-established worldwide organizations, developing a breadth and depth of tax and business skills domestically and on a multinational basis to advance your career.

Indirect Tax

Our indirect tax professionals work with clients that trade goods or services nationally and internationally. Work with them and you’ll advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) or goods & services tax (GST) impact your clients’ supply chain and financial and accounting systems.

You’ll identify and address areas of risk, advise clients on the taxation implications of international trade and assist them in complying with customs regulations. Working in Indirect Tax, you’ll gain wide-ranging experience across different industries and opportunities to work internationally, and receive the support you need to become an effective tax professional.

International Tax

Our international tax professionals help multinational companies align their global tax position with their business strategy to maintain competitive advantage and provide shareholder value.

International tax teams support clients’ cross-border transactions, assess their international tax strategies and provide a range of services, including transfer pricing policies and tax-effective supply chain management.

As a member of our international tax team, you’ll gain experience on engagements with some of the world’s largest international organizations and have opportunities to work with different tax regimes through international assignments.

Transaction Tax

Our transaction tax professionals advise companies and private equity investors on all tax aspects of their transactions.

They assist clients with structuring transaction tax efficiently and undertake tax due-diligence reviews of potential targets.

Together with Restructuring colleagues, they also help companies in financial difficulties. This includes helping those in formal insolvency proceedings to restore their balance sheets by advising on sales of non-core businesses.

Transaction tax professionals look after clients of all sizes across all industries, working closely with colleagues in different service lines around the world. In this dynamic and fast-moving environment, you’ll work on a variety of transactions. These range from acquisitions of small family-owned businesses to significant, newsworthy deals, including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, de-mergers, joint ventures, refinancing or stock exchange transactions such as IPOs. Each will help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to develop your career.

Human Capital

Our human capital professionals help many of the world’s largest companies to mobilize their employees around the world. We have developed a unique model in integrating our core services and advisory offerings to assist our clients to manage their global workforce and to deliver operational improvements.

Join our global team to become a trusted advisor in one or more of our eight Core Services:

• Assignment Services
• Global Immigration
• Expatriate Tax Services
• International Social Security
• Global Employment Tax Services
• Remuneration
• Benefits
• HR & Payroll Performance Improvement

You can also focus on strategic approaches to human resource operations through our six Advisory Offerings:

• Accidental Expatriate
• Global Mobility Policy Advisory
• Global Equity
• HR Transaction Advisory
• HR Cost & Risk Advisory
• Compensation Accumulation

One of our key service goals is to team with each client and align our approach to our client’s needs. We believe in close communication and investing the time to develop a strong, long-term relationship.

Advising a fast-changing world

In the future you may choose to become part of our Financial Services team of specialists that work across Assurance, Tax and Advisory. As part of this team you’ll work within experienced international teams – in the constantly changing, complex world of global finance. You’ll build long-standing relationships and networks with influential and reputable businesses, as you provide advice that assists clients to make informed decisions and reduce their risk.

Taking care of our business

Core Business Services are the support functions that help our business to run efficiently and effectively. They include Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Administrative Support, Marketing, Knowledge and Business Development.

You will come into contact with or work alongside our highly diverse and talented group of individuals as you help to build Ernst & Young’s success. Find out the exact nature of the student opportunities available in your country by using this site’s search facility.

Get on the fast track

Going from campus to career can seem daunting. If you want a taste of working life while you're still a student, we can offer you a number of different options, from a two-week Work Experience Program to a year-long Industrial Placement.

You’ll get a sense of our culture and values — and start to see the career you’d like to shape. The relationships you make, and the impression you leave, can help you secure a permanent position after you graduate. 

And the experience will last you a lifetime.

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Ernst & Young Internships

Discover what life as a professional is all about. Work on real projects and prepare yourself to perform at an outstanding level. Apply for an internship with Ernst & Young and get a head start on your career.

To discover more about this program, contact your university careers center or speak to your Ernst & Young campus recruiter.

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meet some of our interns.

Ernst & Young Industrial Placement

If you've chosen a degree that requires a year in industry, or simply want a year's work experience, this placement can give you 12 months of valuable business know-how.

Working within our Assurance, Tax, Transactions or Advisory practice, you'll be performing a role similar to that of a new graduate. From day one, you'll be working on real client projects and will contribute to a variety of work across a range of sectors. We suggest you apply early as there's a large number of people who apply for a limited number of positions.

Ernst & Young Summer Leadership Program

Accelerate your understanding of professional services and develop your leadership skills with a one- to three-day course designed to introduce you to our culture, people and practices that drive our success.

Through group activities, discussions and training, you'll build your leadership, teamwork and communication skills. If you show the qualities and strengths we're looking for, we'll invite you to interview for an internship or full-time opportunity with us. To discover more about this program, contact your university careers center or speak to your Ernst & Young campus recruiter.

Ernst & Young Work Experience Program

This intensive program kicks off with two days of training for our Tax or Advisory service line. This will equip you with the basics to participate in a client-facing project team. You'll then contribute to live projects and gain valuable insights into professional life.

Successful participants are also offered the opportunity to be fast-tracked to an internship in their final year. Placements are limited and competition is high, so apply early.

Ernst & Young International Intern Leadership Conference

Every year almost 2,000 of the best interns from around the world, including Asia-Pacific, are sent to the International Intern Leadership Conference (IILC) in Florida. If you’re in a participating country and are selected to attend, you could meet our global CEO, take part in workshops that help you explore career options, develop professionally and discover how you fit into the organization’s global vision and strategy. You’ll also make new friends at team building sessions and of course — go to Disney World!

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at what our interns got up to in Florida.