Graduate Consulting - Forensic, Risk and Assurance Leeds Autumn 2026

Job description

How we make the difference in Forensic, Risk and Assurance

On our Forensic, Risk and Assurance Graduate Programme, you’ll work with clients across a variety of sectors and gain structured training, building your commercial and financial awareness, as well as the skills you need to build the career you want.

If you are interested in understanding how businesses operate, the risks they face and how to protect them, then this is the programme for you.

Over the three years, you’ll develop and refine specialist business, technology, and accounting investigation skills while improving our clients’ governance, risk management and control environments.

You could be helping diffuse challenging situations through investigations and compliance, fraud risk management, corporate intelligence, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and dispute advisory services. You could also be providing valuable insight and commercial recommendations to our clients to support them in achieving their business objectives by conducting in-depth analyses of data and business processes.

In each of these areas, you’ll consider client reputation, growth, environmental factors and the way they treat their employees.

How you’ll grow with us

You’ll work toward a professional qualification, the ACA Accelerated qualification or CA equivalent in Scotland.

Your programme might see you working in a specific industry sector or across a variety of industries, depending on the office you join. There’s also potential to gain broader Consulting experience, as your programme might include working with other teams in the wider Enterprise Risk space while still being relevant to your ACA qualification.

After completing your qualification, the learning and career opportunities continue. You can take the valuable technical skills, broad commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of one or more industry sectors to continue building an exciting and varied long-term career.

The teams you could work in

Whether you work within the Governance, Risk & Compliance Services teams, Contract Intelligence team or the Forensic teams, you’ll be joining some of the top minds in the industry.

Within Governance, Risk & Compliance Services, our services incorporate:

• Internal Audit and Risk Assurance: Independent assurance that an organisation's risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively.
• Governance, Risk and Compliance: Critical factors to businesses in a changing environment - as the landscape evolves, new risks and compliance requirements emerge.

Within Forensic, our specialist areas are:

• Investigations and Compliance: This team works with clients in sensitive and complex environments to conduct independent investigations. In the Financial Crime Regulatory space, we support some of the world’s largest financial institutions to prevent, detect and investigate instances of fraud, misconduct and corruption to achieve regulatory compliance and bolster financial crime controls across the entire organisation.
• Dispute Advisory Services: This team helps prevent and resolve commercial disputes by supporting our clients to assess damages and resolve accounting, audit and finance-related issues.
• Infrastructure Government & Health Transport Advisory: This team provides specialist financial, commercial and strategic advice to the transport sector. Dealing with both public and private sector clients, we focus on the rail and bus markets in the UK and globally.

You could also work in the Contract Intelligence team. This team consists of qualified accountants who specialise in providing contract investigation and compliance services. The team uses a combination of audit procedure and technology to deliver for clients globally. If you have an eye for detail, good analytical skills and enjoy problem-solving, this could be the programme for you.

Capability: Consulting Programme Length: 3 years Qualifications: ACA or CA equivalent (Scotland locations) Entry Requirements:

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 .

• GCSE Maths Grade 5 or B*
• GCSE English Language Grade 5 or B*
• 120 UCAS points* from your ‘top’ 3 A Level grades, excluding General Studies
• 2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline.

Key Skills:

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 in our graduates at KPMG.

Learn more about what we look for and how to apply .

Training and Development:

The training and development of our people is critical to the future success of our business. We want to empower you to grow in your own way, to feed your curiosity and embrace a growth mindset in an environment where learning is continuous. We have therefore created a rich curriculum and learning community to help you build your skills and fulfil your potential. This ranges from an immersive five-day induction experience to help you transition to the world of work, through to formal training courses, leadership knowledge bites, learning journals, online courses and networking events – all aligned to our ‘learn for a lifetime’ strategy designed to help you gain an advantage for life.

On this programme you’ll study for the ACA Accelerated Programme or equivalent CA qualification. This is front-loaded, uses innovative technology and is delivered via a blend of online and in-centre classroom courses. The ACA Accelerated programme enables you to upskill quickly, so you can make your mark. For the first year of your training contract, you will focus purely on your professional qualification, by completing 12 out of 15 ACA exams. You will also have opportunities to reconnect with your home department and peer group, as well as complete internal training and extra skills sessions. The entire programme is supported in a wide range of ways by your tuition provider (BPP) and KPMG’s dedicated Early Careers Development team.

If you join a Scottish office, we support the equivalent CA qualification and therefore you will study towards your ICAS. This newly designed programme enables you to sit the majority of the ICAS exams in your first year, provides you with innovative technology to support your learning experience and also enables you to upskill quickly. You will have opportunities to reconnect with your home department and peer group, as well as complete internal training and extra skills sessions. The entire programme is supported in a wide range of ways by ICAS and KPMG’s dedicated Early Careers Development team.

In line with our hybrid model, you will be required to travel to our training partners offices, it is important that you read our guide on .

For both programmes in the remaining two years of your training contract, you will concentrate on building up a fantastic range of work experience, complete your exams and will have the technical knowledge to apply to your role in the workplace. These programmes have been structured with you in mind and truly empower you to accelerate your learning journey at KPMG.