KPMG is Ireland’s leading professional services firm, hiring 400+ graduates each year to become Chartered Accountants. Our 118+ partners and 4,300 employees are committed to helping you succeed in developing a career as a successful business adviser in a friendly, challenging, and supportive environment. Our people are our most important asset. We invest €19.6 million annually in training and development too provide best in class professional development from our award-winning KPMG Business School.

About the KPMG Graduate Programme Hear from our Graduates!

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our next cohort of the highly successful KPMG Graduate Programme for Autumn 2025! As a graduate based in Dublin, you’ll engage in meaningful work in our Deal Advisory practice on a 3.5-year training contract with a cohort of fellow graduates working towards their associate chartered accountant (ACA) qualifications. We take our responsibility to ensure that you excel in your professional exams seriously. Our exam pass rate is 10% to 30% better than the national average and #1 in Ireland and we consistently have many of our employees placed in the top ten results in the country including 91% pass rate for 2023!

If the below sounds like you, we hope you’ll apply

• Current undergraduate student in your final year at an accredited university or current master’s student at an accredited university from any degree discipline
• Minimum 2.1 current university results
• Professional goals that align with a career in accountancy
• Demonstrated leadership and/or university involvement
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for a client-facing role

• Largest Deal Advisory team in Ireland with 600+ professionals and consistently appointed to deal with Ireland’s largest transactions
• Clients comprise Ireland’s largest corporates, domestic and international banks, public sector / semi-state organisations and private equity funds
• Services include Corporate Finance, Future Analytics (Planning, Economics and Research Advisory), Sustainable Futures, Transaction Services, Strategy, Turnaround and Restructuring, Forensics, Managed Solutions and Construction Advisory
• Market leaders in ESG Advisory services under our Sustainable Futures brand
• Won the prestigious M&A Financial Adviser of the Year award by Mergermarket in 2022
• Ranked #1 Financial Advisor by Deal Volume in 2023

Join a community with great benefits!

• Hybrid working
• Mentorship through our Performance Manager & Buddy programme
• Connect to your local community through our robust Corporate Citizenship activities
• Coverage of ACA exam fees
• Early finish on Fridays in June, July & August & before Bank Holiday weekends
• Subsidised staff restaurant
• 23 holidays per year with the option to purchase up to 7 additional days
• Sport & Social and Wellbeing Initiatives
• Free Digital Doctor
• Pension Scheme

We’re proud of our award-winning programmes!

#1 gradIreland Best Internship Programme of the year 2024

#2 gradIreland Best Graduate Training & Development Programme 2024

#2 gradIreland Best Sustainability in Graduate Recruitment 2024

#1 gradIreland Best Graduate Employer of the year 2021 and 2023

Universum’s Top 3 Most Attractive Grad Employer Ireland 2019 – 2023