Programme: Graduate Programme
Location: Cork
Business Area: Deal Advisory
Description and Requirements
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 Tax Consulting practice on a 3.5-year training contract, with a cohort of fellow graduates working towards their associate chartered accountant (ACA) qualifications and Chartered Tax Advisory 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 three results in the country.
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, including science, law, business, social sciences.
- Minimum 2.1 current university results
- Professional goals that align with a career in tax and accountancy
- Demonstrated leadership and/or university involvement
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for a client-facing role
How will you make an impact? Meet Sophie – A Current Deal Advisory Associate
- Largest Deal Advisory team in Ireland with 600+ professionals and consistently appointed to deal with Ireland’s largest transactions
- Leading provider of turnaround strategies to underperforming companies. Our team works with stakeholders to restructure businesses that are experiencing financial difficulties, and seeks to rebuild corporate performance and restore stakeholder confidence.
- Clients comprise Ireland’s largest corporates, domestic and international banks, public sector / semi-state organisations and private equity funds
- 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