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 ESG Audit 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!

• 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

How will you make an impact? Meet Ronan – A Current Audit Associate

As individuals, we’re all stakeholders for the companies which drive our economies and influence our lives – whether as investors, customers, suppliers, employees or simply as residents, dependent on the health of our shared planet. They want to understand the purpose and values of the business and its long term ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) commitments, and to see evidence of the business’s actions to achieve their targets, documented through relevant ESG metrics. That’s where we help.

• Advise companies on current and future ESG reporting standards relevant to their business and sector.
• Review ESG disclosures both within the Annual Report and in separate ESG reports, for compliance with existing reporting requirements and to benchmark against good practice.
• Develop roadmaps for future ESG reporting which align with where the Board wants to be and by when. And bringing these to life through interactive workshops. 
• Perform gap assessments over current ESG reporting processes and controls versus best practice. 

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!

#2 gradIreland Best Graduate Training & Development Programme 2024

#2 gradIreland Best Sustainability in Graduate Recruitment 2024