Your life at Ernst & Young
When you work at Ernst & Young, you’ll be rewarded in all kinds of ways:
You’ll work with diverse people. Our people come from all over the world. They have a huge range of backgrounds, culture and experiences, which will help you appreciate different perspectives. You’ll broaden your own viewpoints, develop as an individual and forge friendships that may last a lifetime.
You’ll feel included. We’ve created an inclusive work environment that means when you speak, you’ll be listened to. Of course, in return you’ll listen too, and consider the opinions of others as well. It’s all part of weighing up the options as a team and deciding the best way forward. And because you’re free to talk to anyone, you’ll benefit from working alongside and sharing experiences with our leaders.
You’ll receive plenty of support and tangible rewards. We’re here to make sure you get the right experiences, support and coaching to excel in your chosen career. And we’ll make sure you’re rewarded and recognised.
Use the tabs at the top of this page to explore how working at Ernst & Young will expand your skills – and horizons.
Your development
You need training, coaching and new experiences to develop your career. Find out how we deliver this.
Part of something
When you join us, you’ll make a difference to our clients, organisation – and all the people you work with.
Our community
Ernst & Young isn’t just a business. Learn about all the other ways you can make a difference here.
Your rewards
We’ll reward your contribution and performance fairly. Read about the range of benefits you’ll receive.
Making sure everyone’s involved
Visit any of our offices and you’ll see that we include people from the widest variety of backgrounds. In fact, we believe our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. It’ll encourage you to think in global terms, show you how to look at things in different ways – and will give you the chance to build relationships with people from all over the world.
Equal opportunities at Ernst & Young
You can only understand a client’s business when you understand their people. That’s one of the reasons we recruit, form and reward the best teams we can, with people from every walk of life.
Every person at Ernst & Young is part of making this a reality. And that’s why we have networks to promote the success of our people – regardless of sex, background, age or sexual orientation.
These networks include:
- Black network
- Disability working group
- Far East network
- Gay, lesbian & bisexual network
- International network
- Parents' network
- South Asian network
- Women's network
The easiest way to find out more about these networks or speak to their members is to look them up on Facebook. Just search Facebook groups [link to Facebook Groups] for the network’s name.
Monitoring our progress
It’s easy for us talk about being inclusive. So here are some of the awards and recognition we’ve received which back up our claims:
- The Times Top 50 Places Where Women Want to Work
- The Sunday Times 20 Best Big Companies to Work For
- Investor in People
- Stonewall Workplace Equality Index
- Race for Opportunity benchmarking
- Opportunity Now benchmarking: Platinum rating
- Employers' Forum on Disability: Gold Rating
- Women and Work Commission Exemplar Companies
- Work-life Balance Award for EY Birmingham and Big Tick award from the business community
- Platinum rated Corporate Responsibility programme by Business in the Community
- Big Tick for national Education programme
- Community Mark winner
Go as far as you can
Ernst & Young provides an exceptional foundation in business. It's one of the best places to start – but where you take your career is completely up to you.
So rather than mould you, we'll give you the exposure, training and mentoring to take your career where you want it to go. That's why we need people with drive, ambition and natural strengths.
Find out more about how we help you develop with us as an undergraduate or graduate.
In the middle of things
Ready for a challenge? Here at Ernst & Young, we expect you to be. You’ll join forces with people from different places to solve business challenges – and you’ll make a genuine difference to our clients and communities.
In fact, you’ll find there are many ways to get involved in what we do – and just as many to get involved with things that mean something to you. For instance:
- Communities: meet likeminded people (as well as people from different backgrounds) through groups, networks and communities. From the corporate responsibility work we do to our own Ernst & Young Alumni community, you can choose whatever feels right for you.
- Conversations: good communication makes us successful. When you talk, we’ll listen – to your suggestions, ideas, feedback and more. We want everyone at Ernst & Young to feel they can say what’s on their mind.
- Choices: you’ll do best and be happiest when you can make decisions for yourself. It doesn’t matter whether it’s choosing how to solve a problem for a client, deciding your career path or simply working out what to have for lunch. It’s in your hands.
- Celebrations: as working for Ernst & Young isn’t usually the normal nine-to-five, we think it’s really important to find appropriate ways to recognise, celebrate and reward everyone’s achievements. What you do won’t go unnoticed.
‘Give something back’ isn’t just a cliché
We want you to feel fulfilled at work and in your personal life too, so we’ll give you plenty of opportunities to make a difference to your community by giving something back.
Our corporate responsibility programme makes it easy to be a part of activities and projects that benefit local and wider communities – we’ll give you time and space to volunteer in areas that you choose.
Then there’s our alumni network, helping you stay in touch with your peers at Ernst & Young and giving you valuable networking opportunities wherever you decide to take your career.
More about our communities:
Find out more about corporate responsibility:
Your rewards and recognition
Your Ernst & Young package is designed to recognise and reward your performance, to keep you motivated and to give you the support you need to explore and use your strengths at work.
As you’d expect, you’ll get a competitive salary. You’ll also receive a range of benefits which you can choose and tailor through our flexible benefits scheme. But don’t just focus on the tangible things – remember all the training and development you’ll receive, and the happiness you’ll get from working in the way that suits you best.
Here’s a summary of our benefits. We review these regularly, and you’ll learn exactly what applies to your role during the hiring process.
Standard employment benefits for graduates:
- Graduate loan: up to £7,000 interest-free, repayable through your salary over 48 months
- Holiday: starting at 25 days a year
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Personal accident insurance
- Life assurance
- Illness pay and prolonged disability insurance
- Leisure facilities (at some offices)
- Subsidised restaurants (at some offices)
Flexible benefits:
- Our pension scheme, the Ernst & Young Retirement Savings Plan
- Extra holiday (or you can also sell some back to us)
- Annual travel insurance
- Bikes for work
- Carbon offsetting
- Private healthcare insurance
- Tax return service
- Increased personal accident insurance cover
- Dental insurance
- Childcare vouchers
Other health and wellbeing benefits:
- Eye tests and a contribution towards glasses / lenses if needed for computer use
- A health assessment after three years' service
- Online health programme
- Access to Unum Lifeworks Employee Assistance, a free, confidential advice and counselling service for you and your immediate family members.
Ernst & Young Alumni
When you join Ernst & Young, you do more than launch a career.
You may spend your entire career with us or perhaps choose to seek new challenges elsewhere. Whatever your career path, we think you’ll want to stay in touch with your Ernst & Young colleagues.
People who’ve worked at Ernst & Young have many opportunities to network with their peers. Building positive working relationships is invaluable wherever you work and will help you form long-lasting friendships too.
If you do leave to explore other opportunities, we hope you’ll become one of the many people who re-join, bringing in diverse experience and fresh perspectives that enrich our organisation.
