Vacation Audit - ACA

The largest of our UK practices, Audit provides insight, challenge and expertise to some of the world’s biggest companies. We make a meaningful difference to those businesses and the wider community, by examining organisations and ensuring that their published accounts provide a true and fair reflection of their financial position.

Join us on this programme and you’ll have the opportunity to see the auditing process from a range of different perspectives, giving you a rounded view of the discipline and benefiting from learning that will last a lifetime. In fact, you’re laying the groundwork for a secure and long‑lasting career.

Our four‑week Audit Vacation Programme is your chance to gain work experience in a specific audit business area and an insight into life within our diverse and supportive audit community. The programme is designed to help you grow and develop a breadth of professional skills, giving you learning that will last you a lifetime. Building your commercial understanding and in‑depth knowledge of different sectors and businesses and understand more about the work we do to deliver the highest quality audits.

This programme has been purposefully designed as a step towards a possible Graduate offer if you’re successful on the programme. This offer would only be for the same location and business area as that you completed your vacation programme. As such, please ensure you have a commitment to the Vacation programme location and business area that you apply to.

Our firm’s hybrid working model balances the adaptability of working from home with the importance of collaborating and learning in our offices, or at the sites of the organisations we audit. We trust our people to be where they need to be, with our colleagues working together in person as often as needed. You’ll be empowered by the technology that supports us to work flexibly across our collaborative office spaces.

Join us and be part of an inclusive team that’s supportive of individual wellbeing and makes a meaningful difference to the companies we audit and our communities. If you’re curious, resilient and agile, you could thrive with us.

Capability:

Audit

Programme Length:

4 weeks

Qualifications:

N/A

At KPMG, everyone brings a unique perspective, and we want to ensure that you have the best opportunity to demonstrate your potential. We want to discover your individual strengths and attributes to help us to know whether you’ll enjoy working here and how you’ll thrive. That’s why we operate an open access policy and an application process that will assess both your qualifications and your qualities.

Generally, you’ll be expected to demonstrate the following grades (
* or equivalents), to show that you’re able to successfully study for professional qualifications. If you are a few grades or points short, we would still encourage you to apply, as your application will be reviewed together with your performance in our assessments. You‘ll also have the opportunity to provide additional information for us to assess your application and potential in the context of your socio‑economic background and/or any extenuating circumstances, which may have a positive uplift on your academic achievements through contextual recruitment.

You can find out more here.

• Grade 5 or B GCSE
  * Maths
• Grade 5 or B GCSE
  * English Language
• 120 UCAS points
  * from your ‘top’ 3 grades, excluding General Studies under the 2017 tariff point system at A Level (300 UCAS points pre‑2017)
• On track to achieve a 2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline.

Our Vacation Programmes are open to students in their penultimate year of university or who are due to graduate in 2027.

Throughout the recruitment process we will be looking to learn more about your strengths.

To be successful on this programme, you will be required to demonstrate the strengths that we look for at KPMG.

As the vacation programme is not that long, the focus for you will be to ensure every second counts. Above all else, it’s about gaining experience on real‑time, real‑life projects. It's an opportunity to learn new skills, enhance your CV, learn about the world…