Graduate Audit - ACA Watford Autumn 2025

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. We have therefore created a rich curriculum and learning community to help you build your skills and fulfil your potential. This ranges from an immersive five-day induction experience to help you transition to the world of work, through to 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 Audit, we offer the ACA Accelerated Programme or equivalent CA qualification. This is front-loaded, 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. The entire programme is supported in a wide range of ways by your tuition provider (BPP) and KPMG's dedicated Early Careers Development team. If you join a Scottish office, we support the equivalent CA qualification and therefore you will study towards your ICAS. This newly designed programme enables you to sit the majority of the ICAS exams in your first year, provides you with innovative technology to support your learning experience and also enables you to upskill quickly. You will have opportunities to reconnect with your home department and peer group, as well as complete internal training and extra skills sessions. The entire programme is supported in a wide range of ways by ICAS and KPMG's dedicated Early Careers Development team. In line with our hybrid model, you will be required to travel to our training partners offices, it is important that you read our guide on How to get the best out of our hybrid model., Audit is the largest of our UK practices. Put simply, audit is about examining organisations and ensuring their published accounts provide a 'true and fair' view of their financial position and results. The work we do makes a meaningful difference to businesses and communities. It is critical to the everyday working of society, helps build trust in the economy and supports companies as they grow. From the start, you'll be working on complex audit engagements, which could include big retailers, UK banks and multinational organisations - putting you at the heart of the world of business. We audit some of the world's biggest companies, who rely on us to provide independent insight, challenge and high-quality audit expertise. Through this work, we're also committed to helping to build sustainable organisations from an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) perspective. It's challenging work, but you'll also enjoy a lot of support as part of our KPMG community. Read about Audit

ACA or CA equivalent (Scotland locations), + GCSE Maths Grade 5 or B

• + GCSE English Language Grade 5 or B
• + 120 UCAS points
• from your 'top' 3 A Level grades, excluding General Studies
+ 2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline. Key Skills: Throughout the recruitment process we will be looking to learn more about your strengths.

The largest of our UK practices, Audit provides insight, challenge and expertise to some of the world's biggest companies. We make a meaningful difference to those businesses and the wider community, by examining organisations and ensuring that their published accounts provide a true and fair reflection of their financial position. Join us on this programme and, as a graduate trainee, you'll work on diverse and complex audit engagements, learning about all the components that make a successful business. You'll have the opportunity to see the auditing process from a range of different perspectives, giving you a rounded view of the discipline and benefiting from learning that will last a lifetime. In fact, you're laying the groundwork for a secure and long-lasting career. Applying a questioning mind and critically assessing information that organisations provide, you'll develop your skills to deliver independent insight, challenge and high-quality audit expertise. You'll also play a big part in our continuous improvement of audit quality. The work is challenging and rewarding. Throughout the programme you'll have the support of your senior leaders, engagement leader, peers and the broader Audit community, enabling you to be at your best and build your network. It's an inclusive environment, where you'll have the support and backing of a diverse team. We'll give you the skills, tools and intelligent systems you need to grow and learn. Increasingly, this will include the transformative power of AI, which we are embracing in a way that is values-driven, human-centric and trustworthy. Over three years you'll combine audit delivery and study to work toward a professional qualification - the ACA, or CA equivalent in Scotland. Your programme might see you working in a specific industry sector or across a variety of industries, depending on the office you join. After completing your qualification, the learning and career opportunities continue. You can take the valuable technical skills, broad commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of one or more industry sectors, to continue building an exciting and varied long-term career. Our firm's hybrid working model balances the flexibility of working from home with the importance of collaborating and learning in our offices, or at the sites of the organisations we audit. We trust our people to be where they need to be, with our colleagues working together in person as often as needed. You'll be empowered by the technology that supports us to work flexibly across our collaborative office spaces. As part of the Audit team, you will be building friendships and shared experiences, innovating and learning together. Some travel is likely for audit work and because it's seasonal, you should expect there to be busy times of the year. Join us and be part of an inclusive team that's supportive of individual wellbeing and makes a meaningful difference to the companies we audit and our communities. If you're curious, resilient and agile, you could thrive with us.