Graduates

Join us as a graduate

At Ernst & Young we look for ambitious, driven people who want a challenging and stimulating career and ultimately become our future business leaders.

Beginning your career in any one of our service lines – Advisory, Assurance, Corporate Finance and Tax – you'll work with many different clients spanning all industry sectors, or you can choose to focus exclusively on financial services.

It will be up to you where you take your career, but we'll make sure you get the exposure, training and development, and support to get you there.

If you've already graduated and know the career path you want, you can apply for a graduate job too – but you'll need to have a gap year or a year's further study already in place.

Advisory

You'll help companies improve how they work by identifying, investigating and solving complex business problems.

Assurance

Restoring and maintaining public confidence in the world's capital markets, by providing an independent and reliable voice.

Tax

Help our clients navigate the complex, ever-changing world of tax – you'll think creatively and learn all about the taxation of organisations and their different stakeholder groups.

Corporate finance

Show businesses how they can raise, optimise, preserve and invest capital and analyse companies' involvement in a variety of transactions.

Financial Services

Choose to focus exclusively on financial services clients and become a specialist within this industry.

Applying

Our selection process gives you the chance to explore your ambitions and learn about the role you can play here.

 

Advisory

The current climate combines challenge and uncertainty with escalating competition. Clients are increasingly asking for our advice on how to succeed in these conditions.

We work with them to address their specific circumstances and to achieve sustainable improvement to their business performance.

Advisory is a fast-moving, high-growth area with huge potential. It offers variety, challenge and the opportunity to become a leading business advisor in a dynamic and varied team environment. If this matches your career aspirations, now is the time to apply.

Working in Advisory

As one of our advisors, you'll work with a wide variety of clients across a broad spectrum of industries on complex assignments. By participating in different project teams, you'll develop key skills-sets, and provide tailored services and quality delivery. This great start to your career will include the experiences, learning and coaching you need to achieve success.

Within Advisory there are six areas you could join as a graduate:

• Actuarial
• Financial Services Advisory Consultant Programme
• Advisory Consultant Programme
• IT Advisory Consultant Programme
• Financial Services Risk
• Information Technology Risk Assurance (ITRA) – Financial Services

Assurance

Assurance professionals play a vital role in the economy by providing companies, investors and regulators with an independent and reliable voice about the validity of financial statements, business-critical information or processes.

But assurance skills are not limited to audit or to finance. Assurance professionals also help clients make informed decisions about environmental policies, governance and management systems and fraud investigation.

Working in Assurance Services will give you an excellent grounding in business that will open up a wide range of career options, either as an assurance professional or in other areas of the business. It will give you the opportunity to apply your analytical skills and intellectual rigor to varied projects and to develop relationships with key client personnel. We'll provide you with the experiences, training and coaching you need to succeed.

Exploring a career in assurance at Ernst & Young

As an assurance professional at Ernst & Young, you'll work in a high-performing environment with all types of organisations across a range of sectors. We're looking for graduates to join us and develop broad assurance skills by gaining experiences in the different areas listed below. Later on, you'll have the opportunity to specialise.

The links below will give a summary of the sub areas available in assurance:

• Audit
• Japanese Business Programme
• Pensions
• Fraud Investigations and Dispute
• Forensic Technology and Discovery

Tax

Companies today face ever-growing, increasingly complex tax and regulatory change.

Helping them negotiate these difficult conditions requires intellectual rigour, a sound understanding of tax legislation and the ability to manage client relationships effectively. Expect to use your research and analytical know-how, apply yourself to stay on top of the law and acquire in-depth knowledge of clients' businesses.

We have a proven track record in this area - our Tax team won Best VAT team in the prestigious LexisNexis Taxation awards 2012. So if you want a career in Tax and the opportunity to flourish in an award-winning team, we'll give you all you need to succeed.

Explore a career in tax

We provide a full complement of services to clients, whether they are multinationals or fast-growing enterprises. You can choose to kick-start your tax career with us by acquiring generalist skills or by focusing on one particular area.

The links below will give a summary of our available sub-areas available:

• Direct Tax
• Human Capital
• Human Capital – Japanese Expatriate Tax Services
• Indirect Tax
• Transfer Pricing

Transactions

In recent years, organisations have used transactions strategically to enhance their growth, competitiveness and profitability.

To succeed in Corporate Finance – also known as Transaction Advisory Services – you need keen problem-solving skills and the ability to respond well to pressure in order to help companies evaluate, structure and execute their most important deals. Expect a dynamic, forward-looking environment which keeps you on your toes. But don’t worry, we’ll make sure you get the experience, learning and coaching you need to become a successful professional.

Explore a career in Corporate Finance

We provide a full complement of transactions advice to clients ranging from multinationals to fast-growing entrepreneurs, in both developed and emerging markets. We’re looking for graduates who want either to enter a specific area on day one, or to take part in our rotation programme. The links below will give you a taste of daily life in our different service lines.

• Corporate Finance
• Decision Support/Operational Research
• Economic Advisory

Financial Services

Today’s financial services market is global, constantly changing and highly regulated. Our clients in Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance demand a dynamic approach to help them manage the uncertainties and the opportunities this brings. With 35,000 people in our global Financial Services network, we can quickly see the whole picture to meet our clients’ needs.

No borders – just opportunities

Our EMEIA Financial Services business is growing fast. The size and quality of our clients, combined with our unique specialism in financial services, sets us apart from the competition. We’re completely integrated across 12 countries in EMEIA.

That means you’ll learn more about financial services here than anywhere else – we’ve got 6,000 people and 400 partners in our EMEIA team. Join us and you’ll help shape the future of financial services, working with the best people on the most complex issues in the industry. We’re looking for graduates who are comfortable with travelling but also have language skills which can be used in a business environment. And with opportunities in different disciplines, countries and sectors, you can build one of the best foundations for a career in financial services.

If you’re interested in a career in financial services, there are a number of different paths you can take – you can specialise in Assurance, Advisory, Corporate Finance or Tax. Few organisations offer graduates such rich and diverse financial services careers.

Financial Services Advisory Consultant Programme

Depending on which area of Advisory you choose, you could be helping clients manage performance, assisting them in identifying and mitigating business risk, or giving advice on IT controls, financial reporting or due diligence. You’ll be based in London but you’ll have the opportunity to travel in the UK, and possibly abroad. As part of the programme you may choose to study for a professional qualification, depending on the area you wish to specialise in.

Financial Services Assurance

You’ll be ensuring our clients manage complex regulatory requirements and the demands of many different stakeholders. You will help to provide a timely and constructive challenge to management, a robust and clear perspective to audit committees and critical information for investors and other stakeholders. Learning the basics of assurance in financial services from the ground up, you’ll be likely to specialise in one of our financial services sectors – Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance. At each stage, you’ll have the learning, coaching and training needed to help you become a successful professional and reach the next level.

Financial Services Tax

You’ll be advising financial services clients on a wide range of issues, combining business and commercial knowledge with a tax technical specialism and an in-depth knowledge of the financial services industry.

You will develop technical knowledge and financial services expertise by working across a number of teams within tax and with colleagues in other service lines.

To support your development you will be given the opportunity to study for a professional qualification as well as specialist training - tax technical, financial services and core consultancy skills as well as other training to enable effective delivery and to build and manage client relationships.

This package of experiences and training will equip you with the skills to advise in a dynamic and ever changing financial services market place.

The opportunity for an exceptional career

At Ernst & Young we show you how to identify your natural strengths, and provide diverse and in-depth experiences to develop them in a stimulating and challenging career. When you play to your strengths you’ll perform at your best and really enjoy your work.

It’s a big part of our culture to help our people achieve their full potential. So from day one we invest heavily in our graduates – we’re creating future business leaders.

Whichever graduate programme you join, you’ll begin with a rigorous induction that helps you to make the transition from university to work. We’ll also ensure you have a clear understanding of how you play a crucial role in the overall success and development of the business. After that you’ll start working with clients right away – it will be a steep learning curve, but it’s the best way to learn.

Depending on the service line you choose to work in, we’ll support you in your studies towards a professional qualification. We’ll also help you take your career forward with award-winning, bespoke training, designed to hone your technical and people and management skills. If you show clear leadership potential, you could also qualify for one of our progression programmes.

You’ll learn a lot from working with clients and alongside our people who are experts in their field, but you’ll also want to know how your development is progressing. So you’ll get regular feedback and guidance from your personal coach, and on-the-job advice about everyday processes (and bigger challenges) from your team. We’ll also schedule regular reviews where you will have the opportunity to discuss your progress and set goals for the next year.

As you gain experience you could be invited to go on secondment to a client, work with people in different countries, or get thrown into a challenging new environment, These diverse experiences will help you develop a global mindset that will set you up for your entire career.

Find out more about how to join us.