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Technology Consulting Industrial Placement

Help organisations leverage technology to transform their businesses whilst you get a head start on your graduate career.

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    Technology Consulting

    The pace of technology change is increasing year on year. Now, the focus for our clients is about agility and speed, embracing the digital wave with insight and customer centricity with all services provided in a secure, trusted and compliant manner. Within Technology Consulting, we fuse business insight with technology, digital and data solutions to transform our client’s businesses and for competitive advantage.

    Technology in Technology Consulting

    We're building a better working world by transforming businesses through the power of people, technology and innovation.

    We deliver technology-enabled transformation to our clients to help generate long-term value. We team closely with our Business Consulting practice to support our clients through their transformation journey.

    What will you be doing?

    • Working across a range of industries to address technology challenges for our clients
    • Leveraging the expertise of our teams to shape our client's technology agenda
    • Helping our clients plan and deliver organisation-wide transformation programmes
    • You may also be expected to be flexible and spend large proportions of your time away from your home office

    • Are you eligible to apply?

      If you’re in your penultimate year at university and your course includes a placement year, this programme is for you. We operate an open access policy, meaning we don’t screen out applications on your academic performance alone. You will however, need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject, and have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.

      We're looking for students that have a passion and interest in technology and it's an added bonus if you have some experience of: SQL, Python, R, VBA, SPSS or Minitab and experience with databases, data analysis/manipulation and reporting.

      We welcome applications from all academic backgrounds and are looking for individuals who will succeed at EY in the desired role and future qualifications, therefore throughout our recruitment process your academic performance will be considered against your online assessment scores to determine your suitability for an EY role. We are also proud to partner with RARE recruitment, so that your application can be processed in the context of your socio-economic background. This allows us to give you the maximum credit for your achievements, assessing whether you have overachieved in light of your personal circumstances.

      Read more about our academic requirements.

    Programme length

    10 month placement

    Salary

    Competitive pro rata salary

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    You’ll have access to all the learning EY has to offer. This includes our EY Badges programme, virtual, live instructor-led classes, live classroom sessions, curated and snackable content and master classes. The range of content is vast and includes courses on analytics, emerging technology and IT, as well as marketing, leadership and personal wellbeing.

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    How’s it structured?

    Over 11 months, you’ll have access to lots of different experiences and learning opportunities. We'll help you develop the skills to decipher how each client problem is different and to find innovative and sound ways of solving them.

    If you join Financial Services (FS) you’ll work on a variety of projects for leading global financial services clients and will be encouraged and expected to take responsibility for your projects. During the programme you'll get exposure to a range of sectors across FS including Wealth & Asset Management, Banking & Capital Markets and Insurance.

    If you join UK & Ireland (UK&I), you’ll learn to apply business and technology knowledge across any area of organisations. You will gain exposure to one or multiple areas where you will learn to apply leading technologies to solve real client problems.

    You'll attend training courses alongside our graduates and have access to learning and development resources as well as a supportive team to lend a hand. Since no two projects will be the same, we’ll coach and mentor you in a way that will prepare you for anything. You'll also be part of an large community with our graduates which is a great opportunity to build your network, participate in corporate sustainability events and develop your leadership skills.

    At the end of the placement, if you’re great at your job, you could be asked to join one of our graduate programmes once you’ve finished university.

    What type of work will I be doing?

    During your placement in Technology Consulting, you may have the opportunity to work across one or more of our competencies:

    • Data & Analytics

      Data & Analytics is key in business transformation. It’s not just about technology, but about reimagining how businesses will run in the future. 

      We assist clients spanning across all sectors to transform into data-driven organisations, where trusted intelligence is embedded in daily operations, from the boardroom to the front line.

      Across UK&I and FS, we focus on developing ‘next-generation’ solutions. Our expertise span across Data Strategy, Performance, Engineering, Demand, Architecture, Business Intelligence, Reporting and Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Automation and Robotic Processing.

    • Digital & Emerging Technologies

      The advent of emerging tech is redefining all industries. We advise our clients on the adoption of emerging technologies including cloud computing, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence and blockchain.

    • EY AgilityWorks

      For UK&I, in EY AgilityWorks you'll be working with one of the most innovative teams in the SAP space, supporting large scale transformation for a range of clients in the UK and abroad. S/4HANA is one of the most prominent technologies today,  and as one of the fastest growing teams in Tech Consulting, EY AgilityWorks features a range of capabilities which are exclusively focused on SAP, such as Finance, Supply Chain, Analytics, Data, App Development, Customer Experience and Solution Architecture.

    • Technology Solutions Delivery

      In FS, Technology Solution Delivery help leading companies reinvent themselves and unlock new sources of value through technology. Our goal is to support clients as they initiate or undergo major transformation. Our capabilities span end-to-end solution implementation services from strategy and architecture to production deployment.

      Technology implementation support

      • Vendor package and partner selection
      • Service strategy and roadmap
      • Program delivery (program management, release management, benefits management)
      • Requirements definition
      • Solution architecture and design

      Enterprise and Industry application implementation

      • Configuration and development
      • Systems development and integration
      • Testing
      • Security and controls
      • Process management and improvement
      • Operations/Managed Services

      By leveraging on our proven delivery methodologies, governance structures and project control methods, we enable successful transformation programmes for our clients and help them improve their customer centricity and business performance. 

      As a consultant you’ll be given the opportunity to get involved and help build a better working world.

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