Consulting Graduate Programmes
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Why Consulting at EY?
Deliver on your ambitions
We help solve our clients’ most critical and exciting challenges. Our teams work to transform clients’ businesses and models by creating growth, managing cost and efficiency, responding to market pressures and regulations, and resolving operational challenges. In a highly complex and changing world, clients are turning to technology at speed to create competitive advantage.
A career with real impact
You’ll bring technology into the future whilst using your strong head for business to think up key strategies. Everything you do will drive you towards building a better working world. From aiding clients in reducing their carbon footprint and enabling major technology brands, to reinvesting in AI that provides access to critical healthcare – we help organisations succeed.
A purposeful future
We help clients reimagine their future and guide them to make the best possible decisions to fuel business growth. From technology innovation to business transformation, we provide clients with a variety of services. Your EY career could see you growing the knowledge and skills to offer advice on how businesses can grow, avoid risk and deal with the unpredictable.
What could you do in Consulting?
Explore our programmes below in our three key areas; business, people and technology.
Actuarial
Business
Make financial sense of the future. Often working within complex financial systems, we combine business, analytical and statistical techniques to focus on the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty. Our team works with clients across financial services to transform data into value-adding insights.
Explore programmes: Actuarial Life | Actuarial Non-Life | Actuarial Pensions
Business Consulting
Business Consulting is where you will help our clients solve their most complex challenges and transform with the digital age. Reimagine how our clients see growth, whilst supporting them navigate market evolution, business transformation, cost optimisation, regulatory change, operational challenges and more.
Cyber Security
We help organisations tackle their many security challenges, support risk-based decision making and improve data security and cyber defences. And, we also support clients with reducing costs related to managing security risks, improving their overall cyber security posture, and recovering from cyber incidents.
Enterprise Risk
We work with our clients to help them solve their most complex and pressing problems. We provide businesses with confidence by helping them to optimise how they manage risk, automate controls, or operate their SOX, Internal Audit and other Risk and Compliance functions.
Enterprise Risk - Risk Innovation
We work with wider EY teams to help businesses improve their systems and processes using a digital-first mindset. We ask questions like 'how could technology make this better?' and ‘how can we look at this differently?’, then create solutions and put them in place.
Extended Assurance
Business
Prepare for a future in problem solving. From gathering insights to thinking innovatively to tackle in-depth client challenges, you’ll reduce risk and offer advice. Work with a huge variety of organisations and Executives. Pick up key analytical skills and push the boundaries of business.
Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS)
Business
FAAS is a specialist area, where we help finance leaders tackle complex challenges facing their businesses and finance functions. You’ll have a client-facing role, supporting them in understanding the effects of change and managing transformation. It’s an exciting area to enter if you have a growth-hacker mindset.
Finance Modelling
Business
Finance is rapidly changing and will continue to evolve in response to complex reporting and accounting challenge. You'll help our clients to design, develop and deploy financial models using multi-dimensional software systems as part of a Finance Consulting team and delivering solutions to our clients.
People and Workforce Advisory Services
People
People and Workforce Advisory gives you the resources you need to tackle global and local challenges. Our teams help businesses both large and small with their people needs in the digital age. Our goal is to work with them to build a better working world for everyone.
Quantitative Advisory Services (QAS)
Business
Interested in putting predictive modelling at the heart of financial services? Then this is the ideal place to start your career. The team works with clients in financial services with regulatory and risk modelling challenges in areas such as market risk and credit risk.
Technology Consulting
Technology
Help our clients keep ahead of the evolving digital industry and use our global capabilities to help them undergo major transformation. You’ll put agility and speed first, using our industry leading insights to help clients embrace new technology and unlock sources of value.
Why launch your career in Consulting?
We celebrate both individual and team wins. Our teams create a culture where everyone wants to do their very best and help each other to succeed. We encourage strong relationships with a great emphasis on creating purpose-led work in your role. As a member of this team, you’ll help clients reach new markets, navigate organisational disruption or develop a sustainable corporate strategies. Here, Consulting is about making positive change happen to business and society - are you ready?
Work hard and your potential is unlimited. To get you ready for tomorrow’s ever-changing landscape, our programmes will equip you with a range of skills.
Find out more below about the skills you'll build.
Joining as a graduate
On the graduate programme in Consulting, you’ll be learning and adding value from day one. Gain skills in management consulting. Get to know our clients and their business. And work in a dynamic team with vast exposure to global projects. This is where you can make a huge difference across multiple industries.
You’ll make proposals that change our clients’ businesses, analyse and translate data, write reports, and keep ahead of the latest industry news. Flexibility is key, as you’ll need to adapt to different priorities across our broad projects.
The best workplace is a place where you can be you. That’s why our teams place a big focus on inclusivity. We’re always open to challenge and change – and we know we can always be better. You’ll play a big part in building a better working world for us and our clients – pushing us into a future we can be proud of.
A training path to support you
Work towards a professional qualification or certification if you choose to. This could include CIPD Level 5 Certificate in Human Resource Management, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification, ICAEW Certificate in Finance, Accounting and Business (CFAB) as well as Technology focused certificates such as CompTIA Security+. Whether you become a qualified Consultant or build your career solely through experience, you’ll embrace a culture of continual learning.
We’ve developed an accessible blended approach of work and study that includes classroom lessons, online learning, and structured self-study. Studying and exams can be hard to balance alongside client commitments and social activities outside of work. But you’ll never be on your own. You’ll study with the rest of your cohort, building relationships and friendships that will last a lifetime. Plus, we’re here to support you at every step.
Meet our people
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Rewards and benefits
You want a career that counts. An experience that challenges you. That rewards performance and ultimately defines your future. That's what's on offer at EY. After all, our success is founded on yours.
Removing barriers
We’re proud of our heritage on driving diversity and social mobility across the professional services industry, and in 2016, we removed the requirement to have minimum UCAS points or a degree classification to make an application to EY. We are passionate about giving candidates a fair and consistent recruitment process and are proud of our long-standing partnership with RARE who help us assess applications using contextual recruitment. And, whilst some academic qualifications will still be considered (check programme pages for more information), it’s no longer a barrier. We also firmly believe that every candidate should have the opportunity to demonstrate their potential in our selection process which is why we use our leading EY Strengths Framework that focuses on your individual strengths.
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