Graduate Audit - Accounting Advisory and Assurance (ACA) Manchester Autumn 2025

On the Accounting Advisory and Assurance programme you will develop your skills and experience by providing businesses with a broad range of accounting advice. Depending on the team you join you could be supporting major business transactions and transformations or delivering assurance services on financial and non-financial information, processes and controls such as information relating to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. If you join our Accounting Advisory team, you'll help businesses with a variety of complex accounting challenges, such as preparation of financial statements, mergers and acquisitions, implementing new accounting standards or regulatory changes, group restructures and delivery of training. In ESG Assurance, you'll help organisations meet the growing demand for clear and transparent disclosure of their ESG commitments to regulators, investors, and the public. Reporting standards are changing rapidly and you'll play an important role examining a variety of data points such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, human rights, diversity and many other non-financial metrics. You may also be involved in providing assurance over sector specific regulations such as ATOL, contractual compliance, and grants. Joining our Controls Assurance team, you'll assess how well our clients operate their business processes, helping them to become aware of potential risks and build customer confidence. You could be reviewing technology processes such as system access, data security and cyber resilience or operational processes such as investment management and payroll, across a variety of industries. Whichever team your join you'll also have the opportunity to collaborate closely with other KPMG teams including Financial and Technology Audit, Transaction Services, Consulting, Corporate Finance and Tax. 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., 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 Accounting Advisory and Assurance, 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

On this programme you'll study for the ACA qualification, or CA equivalent in Scotland, which will help you develop valuable technical skills, broad commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of different industry sectors, empowering you to build 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 work with. 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. Join us and be part of an inclusive team that's supportive of individual wellbeing and makes a meaningful difference to the companies we work with and our communities. If you're curious, resilient and agile, you could thrive with us., ACA (or equivalent), + 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.