The EY Business Consulting Summer Internship Programme
Are you a university student looking for a fully paid summer internship in Business Consulting? Find out more here.
Applications for the EY Business Consulting Summer Internship Programme 2024 are now closed.
Wishing the very best of luck to all applicants.
What is Business Consulting at EY?
Our clients rely on our Business Consulting team’s expert knowledge to advise on a broad range of issues across a variety of industries. We offer guidance to companies looking to grow or change or improve performance. Business Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area that reflects the challenges and uncertainty of today’s world. We look for people with commercial acumen who are inquisitive, analytical, and ambitious. You’ll need to challenge us, act on your own initiative and demonstrate the potential to become a future business leader. If this sounds like you, we want you to apply for our internship in Business Consulting.
What makes a good consultant
- Ability to show initiative
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Stakeholder Management and ability to build relationships
- Proficiency in MS Office suite of tools (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) – desired but not essential
- Strong ability to work in a past-faced environment
Choosing your career route
When submitting your application form, you may submit a preference for the types of clients you would like to work with during your graduate programme, if you wish. We have two areas of our business which focus on different clients and industries.
Non-Financial Services Clients: Industrial, Commercial & Technology (ICT) Clients including Automotive & Transportation, Government & Public Sector, Health & Life Sciences, Mining & Metals, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction, Technology, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment.
Financial Services (FS) Financial Services clients: Asset Management, Banking and Insurance, Investment Services, Financial Services Industry, Foreign Exchange.
No preference: If you are open to any client group or industry, then that is no problem! Please select "no preference" when submitting your graduate application.
Selecting a preferred team: If you have an interest in a specific sub-team within Tax, please read on below to discover the areas you can join. If you spot a team that peaks your interest, please submit your preference via your graduate application. This is not mandatory, and you are more than welcome to submit your application without a team preference if you wish.
Wishing you the very best of luck.
Our Business Consulting Internships:
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Business Transformation
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Transformation Delivery
The Transformation Delivery team focuses on supporting our Clients to realise value by turning strategy into desired and aligned outcomes.
Our vision is to become Ireland’s leading Transformation Delivery practice, partnering with our clients and bringing end-to-end capability, to drive transformational change, enabling them to go beyond the horizon. We are Digital and Future focussed.
In Transformation Delivery we enable clients on their transformation and digital transformation journeys, covering the end to end transformation journey from understanding what the client needs in the future through to the delivery of this.
We lead on Digital Transformation to strategically implement planned change, to enable organisations’ to stay relevant and competitive in a disruptive marketplace by leveraging and developing compelling technology.
We are structured across a number of focus areas which are
Transformation & Portfolio Management
- Transformation Management enables our clients to define, implement and manage complex portfolios from strategy to execution.
- Portfolio Management assists our clients with aligning strategy to demand (i.e., projects, products/services, assets), prioritizing/coordinating demand, balancing supply with demand, and driving portfolio-level decisions to realize value.
- Capital Program Delivery (large infrastructure programs) advises our clients on the effective set-up and delivery of large capital projects (large public infrastructure). It includes the program lifecycle on all aspects from business case, feasibility, and execution strategy, through to integrated program controls, governance and delivering outcomes.
Agile & Product Management
- Agile Delivery stands up an agile Program Management Office (PMO) that reports status across the agile components of a program and provides Scrum Masters to execute.
- Product Management facilitates the product delivery lifecycle by interacting with product and service design, engineering, testing and production.
Complex Transformation Delivery
Complex Transformation Delivery equips clients with skilled people to drive the execution of major transformations, focusing on those programs of work that fundamentally change a Business. Complex transformations are typically huge undertakings for our clients and are inherently complex in nature; displaying characteristics such as:
- Large in scale; large team size, large budgets, multi-year
- Ambiguous Scope: Unclear, uncertain, changing but transformational
- Multi-Stakeholder: Multi-Team, multi-streams of work, Multi-Vendor, Multi-Skilled resources
We support our clients in executing major, complex transformations with flexible structures, robust governance and standardised processes. We advise our clients across all elements of a transformation from program initiation and setup through delivery and internal change to program close.
What Clients will you be supporting?
We support a wide range of clients across multiple sectors including Energy & Assets, Government & Public Sector, Health, Transport, Education, Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Advanced Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Financial Services.
What skills will you develop
We have a comprehensive Learning and Development program in place for all staff members and access to a vast library of on-line courses. We also have specific Learning Pathways for each level in the organisation including classroom-based learning as well as our bespoke EY Badges learning initiative which encourages you to attain a level of proficiency in skills of interest to you and valuable to our clients.
Within Transformation Delivery we will also upskill and train you on a targeted range of approaches and tools such as Design Thinking, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, Agile Delivery, Data Visualisation and more….
What will you be doing?
- Working in a team based environment for one of our clients
- Supporting clients delivering their business needs and including project management and delivery support.
- Listening to client problems and helping defining strategies and solutions
- Engaging with your Transformation Delivery colleagues to contribute to the overall running of our team.
- Developing proposals and business cases for EY or our clients
Where will you be based?
We have roles based in Dublin, Cork and Belfast. We have a hybrid working model which is outcomes based and relies on a blended work location which means a mix of working from home, from our EY offices and at the Client offices, as required by the Client.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for mature, independent, and personable candidates that can quickly build rapport, are well prepared and can refer to personal experiences to demonstrate
- Being a team player but can think independently
- Problem solving
- Resilience
- Energy and enthusiasm for new challenges
- Motivation
- Maturity in getting to where you are today
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- A propensity for project/organisation skills
- Strong communication skills
We hire from a diverse range of academic backgrounds including Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Health and Arts but essentially, we hire based on your potential and fit with us.
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Transformation Architecture
Transformation Architecture
The Transformation Architecture Team are looking for interns with the following skills:
- Being a team player but can think independently
- Problem solving
- Resilience
- Energy and enthusiasm for new challenges
- Motivation
- Maturity in getting to where you are today
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- A propensity for project/organisation skills
- Strong communication skills
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Innovation and Experience Design (EY Seren)
EY Seren help organisations achieve business transformation, by putting the human first.
We believe that placing ‘humans at the centre’ of any transformation leads to better success for any organisation. This approach enables the innovation of strategies, services and products that meet these specific needs and creates long-term value.
At EY Seren, some of our core competencies are:
- Experience Design: Leveraging deep customer research and insights, our experience designers focus on three particular needs for our clients: Service Design, Product Design and Product Management.
- Operations and Commercial Excellence: We use data and in-depth research to get to the heart of what customers need, and create the service propositions and business models that provide radically improved outcomes for the customer and the organisation.
- Marketing, Brand and Communications: By understanding the needs of our clients’ customers, we can create thoughtful and value-driven storytelling and communication that helps organisations reach their customers better, maximise brand value and reduce complexity.
- Research and Insight: Deploying a breadth of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, EY Seren can focus on the deep understanding of customer and market needs.
- Innovation: In a rapidly changing industry landscape where new trends are quickly winning market share, our clients often need to figure out how to create new opportunities.
We are looking for open minded and curious interns to join our fast-growing team of innovative problem solvers. Being part of EY Seren will connect you to a diverse team of varied skillsets, where your development will be valued and encouraged in an exciting fast-paced environment.
Responsibility:
You will work within a high-performing team of problem solvers, innovators and designers with extensive consulting and industry experience. On a typical day, you will have the opportunity to:
- Be involved in client engagements of all sizes, from small to large scale transformation projects.
- Engage with senior EY and client stakeholders and agile delivery teams to drive project outcomes and make a real difference to our clients and society.
- Conduct research and analysis, support and facilitate workshops to uncover key processes, pain points and improvement opportunities for our client and their customers.
- Create compelling content to express ideas and innovation through a variety of different platforms.
- Create personas, visualise customer experience journeys and create desirable future-state experiences that improve customer satisfaction.
Skills and attributes for success:
- Curious to explore new things, willing to ask questions, embrace challenges and be passionate about reimagining the future.
- Demonstrate integrity, respect, and teaming; have the energy, enthusiasm, and the courage to lead as well as collaborate with your team.
- Excellent communication skills and can clearly articulate your ideas, designs, and suggestions.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Proficiency to manage several projects simultaneously; you are confident handling change and prioritising tasks.
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Business Design
Business Design works directly alongside clients to help them achieve improve customer and user outcomes through effective operational strategies, process improvement, enhancing performance management and cost optimisation activities.We transform our clients’ operating models, enabling them to create more value for the customers, members, and citizens they serve. We collaborate closely with our clients to create the changes in their business models, processes and digital capabilities that deliver radically improved outcomes for the customer and the organisation. We use design thinking, customer-centricity, and innovation to drive the optimal design decisions and outcomes.
Who are we looking for?
The Business Design team prides itself on the diverse backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and skillsets that our members bring to life in EY and with our clients. We openly welcome those with educational and/or experiential backgrounds in disciplines ranging from Commerce, Science, Occupational Therapy, Engineering, and those with experienced Operations Professional backgrounds.
We’re an energetic, sociable, and supportive team looking for people that:
- Can manage competing priorities.
- Are self-starters that take initiative.
- Are Outcome / Deliverable Focused.
- Thrive in ever-changing environments.
- Display a flexible communication style.
- Learn quickly and adapt to shifting client expectations.
- Are Comfortable with putting structure around ambiguity.
- Possess exceptional quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Have an ability to connect the dots; seeing the bigger picture while also being detail-oriented.
- Collaborate with our clients, lead workshops, and customer journey interviews to support organisations in their transformational change.
- Have previous experience in agile/waterfall delivery, strategy/ operating model design, operations, or process excellence delivery or are willing to learn.
Our methodologies apply to all sectors from Financial Services and Private Sector Clients to Life Sciences and Public Sector, Health, Energy and Asset Services.
Why join Business Design?
Business Design will empower you, during onboarding and throughout the intenrship, by providing you with a career counsellor, a buddy, as well as opportunities for gaining accredited certifications, training, and internal development activities.
What does a day in the life as a consultant within Business Design look like? You will:
- Have opportunities to get involved with initiatives to develop and grow your skillset and the Business Design team.
- Be involved in projects across the end-to-end project lifecycle, from business case development to project and execution and close-out.
- Draw on EY’s unique capabilities in Digital, Transformation Design and Delivery, Business Process Analysis, and experience from our global consulting network.
- Engage directly with client senior stakeholders to drive business outcomes, including the facilitation of client interviews, workshops, and project governance sessions.
- Work with a global team of experts to develop unique, innovative, and game-changing solutions as well as benefiting from best-in class operations focused training and development.
- Utilise your skills in the areas of structured problem solving, business analysis, analytics, design thinking or lean process improvement to help our clients drive profitability and performance through their business operations.
Example of project types
- Partnering to resolve senior leadership and culture challenges.
- Designing and implementing as is and to be process architecture.
- Driving Cost Optimisation projects to deliver value across organisations.
- Re-imagining and re-designing key business processes and operating models with customer centricity at the centre.
- Designing and implementing large scale transformation programmes to drive operational excellence and enhanced digital experience.
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Enterprise Risk
Enterprise Risk is an integral part of EY’s Business Consulting services. We are an established and yet growing service offering, focused on the development and optimisation of governance, risk management and internal controls.
We provide practical risk management, internal audit, internal controls (including SOX) and process improvement solutions to deliver business benefits that go beyond compliance. Our team also work with our Transactions service line to support companies intending to list publicly in the UK, delivering Financial Position and Prospects services.
We work with many of today's leading companies across both the UK & Ireland private sector and global multinationals, in industry sectors including energy and assets, technology, media and telecommunication, consumer products, life sciences and manufacturing, and within the government and public sector.
Working in different sized, multi-disciplinary teams and playing a key role in ensuring high quality outputs and service – involving developing knowledge and implementing new solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients.
Who we look for
We are a diverse group of professionals and look for prospective team members with backgrounds to complement our existing team and range of service offerings:
- With appreciation of risks, internal audit / internal control, in both financial and operational processes.
- With ability to utilise core risk and control skills in a broad range of projects both in traditional internal audits and in consulting projects towards assisting in the implementation of controls/improvements.
- Client-facing professional capable of developing and maintaining long term client relationships.
What to expect
An inclusive workplace enables us to embrace diversity to deliver more innovative and sustainable solutions for our people, clients, shareholders and communities. You'll be encouraged to be yourself and supported to perform at your best. You can expect to be given opportunity to develop and utilise new skills, explore interesting fields and do fulfilling and challenging work that will impact at the organisational level.
We encourage flexibility in how and where you work with the right technology, support and resources. You’ll be working with a diverse range of clients including industry leaders around the world with additional opportunities to participate in business development activities internally and with clients.
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Supply Chain & Operations
In Supply Chain & Operations, we work with a wide array of clients in various sectors to assist them in optimising their supply chain model to:
- Generate Efficiencies
- Reduce costs
- Increase Resilience
- Sustainability
- Digital Manufacturing
Who do we work with?
Working across both public and private sectors (Life Sciences, Food & Beverages, FMCG, Energy & Utilities, Banking, Financial Services, Manufacturing, National & Local Authorities)
Typical Projects
- Procurement review and process design
- Digital Manufacturing Programmes
- Process review and re-design
- Project Management
- Network re-design
- Supply Chain Strategy Development
- Demand Planning Analysis & Design
What the Supply Chain and Operations Team look for in an intern:
General Skills / Attributes:
- Ability to show initiative
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Stakeholder Management and ability to build relationships
- Proficiency in MS Office suite of tools (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) – desired but not essential
- Strong ability to work in a past-faced environment
Supply Chain Expertise (Desirable not but not required):
- Understanding of the key principles of Supply Chain Management including, but not limited to:
- Demand Planning
- Procurement
- Transportation
- Warehousing & Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Operations
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Finance Transformation
Finance Transformation can help to solve complex challenges and issues that are prevalent as businesses seek to transform themselves in the digital age. Working with Chief Financial Officers and finance organisations around the world, we help assess and transform our clients' finance function to improve performance and effectiveness. We provide insights and recommendations on people, processes and systems and then work with our clients to deliver improvements. Our services include management accounting, financial accounting (financial statement close optimisation), and finance transformation (e.g. finance target operating model design). We work with clients from a large range of industries including pharma, consumer, energy, technology and the public sector.
What the Finance Transformation Team look for in an intern:
Background education: Business, Finance, Accounting, BIS/ MIS/Computer Science, Engineering, Data Analytics
Relevant Experience: part time job/internship/part time business/time dedication to skill or sport/volunteering
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Technology Risk
Technology is at the heart of most modern organisations. While technology opens opportunities, it also exposes organisations to risks.
Our Technology Risk teams combine digital know-how with advanced technology to help clients understand and transform their businesses. Our experience helps clients grow, manage, protect and, when necessary, transform their businesses. Together, we shape entire industries by applying the right technological solutions to real world problems. Your diversity of thought will only strengthen our work within this incredibly varied business area.
We have several work streams for you to experience which help EY clients on matters including improving their processes/governance policies and establishing future focused strategies.
You will work with, and get to know, senior stakeholders at EY clients up to board level.
At EY, we provide trusted communications focused on facts and data to management, customers, and other stakeholders.
Technology in Technology Risk
You will become proficient in Collaboration tools. You will also become expert in a range of analytical tools including MS Excel, BI, analytics and reporting tools. The role will also introduce you to a wide range of industry specific tools used in Cyber Security, Programme Risk Management, IT Asset Management, and IT Risk Management.
What will you be doing?
- Gaining a broad understanding of the IT landscape of some of our biggest clients, including their approach to cybersecurity, data protection, resiliency, and software asset management.
- Assessing complex projects to spot risks and make recommendations.
- Analysing data, communicating with clients and presenting your work.
- Understanding the risks associated with emerging technologies, including cloud adoption, the use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation.
- Collaborating with diverse international EY teams that provide unique perspectives and solutions.
- Supporting some of the largest local and global clients on topics that really matter.
- Gain experience consulting major technology companies, financial institutions, and public sector bodies.
Are you eligible to apply?
While a STEM, Computer Science, Business, or Accounting honours is beneficial, we welcome all disciplines.
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Financial Services Operations People Advisory Services (FSO PAS)
Our Financial Services Operations People Advisory Services (FSO PAS) professionals assist our clients in successfully defining, implementing, and sustaining their people agenda. Financial Services in Ireland is experiencing change at a pace not seen before – driven by economy, society and innovation, our clients recognise the need to be adaptable and current – from attracting talent through to having the best employee value proposition needed to retain them.
We are real people, standing at the intersection of business and talent. We provide our Financial Services clients with a set of integrated services and offerings to support and inform their people needs.
Our core service offerings include:
- Operating Model and Organisational Design
- Workforce Strategy
- Future of Work
- Change Experience
- Training and Learning Services
- Talent and Leadership
- Culture
- Communications
- HR Transformation
- Mergers & Acquisition
Driven by our deep understanding of strategy and operations, and our focus on innovation & commercial business realities, FSO PAS is best positioned to respond to the scale and complexity of the challenges our financial services clients face, making us the trusted advisor of choice to our clients and creating more opportunities for our people.
