 Our commitment to training is second to none. We'll throw our unbridled enthusiasm and considerable weight behind your continuing study towards professional qualification.
Tailored on the job training will help you develop the business and technical skills you'll need to pass your exams and launch your career. As you progress, your training will take in a broader range of client-related work and may offer an opportunity for a secondment to a specialist business-related area. Beyond qualification, your career development will feature specialist and managerial training, secondment opportunities and for the right people, progression through management to partnership.
Grant Thornton training and work experience is varied and intellectually demanding. We have our own National Training Centre where you'll attend relevant training courses to help you develop your role within the department.
DIFFERENT PATHS TO PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Our training is geared to support a range of qualifications to find out more about them, click on the links below:
We offer training for graduates in distinct specialist service lines and business areas:
AUDIT (ACA, CIPFA or ACCA)
- Financial Services and Government Audit
- Motor Retail
- Agriculture
TAX
- Corporate Tax (CTA or ACA)
- Entrepreneur and Private Client (EPC)
- Employer Solutions (CTA)
- VAT (CTA or ACA)
- Transfer Pricing (CTA or ACA)
RISK MANAGEMENT (ACA or ACCA)
- Technology Risk Management
ACTUARIAL CONSULTING (FIA)
RECOVERY & REORGANISATION (ACA or ACCA)
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AUDIT (ACA or ACCA)
In your first year we hope that you will work on a series of audit assignments with a variety of large and small clients in a range of sectors. Most projects last around two weeks, but they can be as short as a few days or occasionally as long as up to eight weeks. You'll go on to develop your experience in your 2nd and 3rd year, sometimes moving on to other clients but ideally working at a higher level with clients that you started building a relationship with in your first year.
Client sectors include media & entertainment, charities & not for profit, financial services, professional services, retail, motor retail, technology, agriculture, leisure/hotels, property & construction and healthcare/pharmaceuticals and many more.
As a first year trainee you'll:
- visit client sites as part of a team at the fieldwork stage of the audit
- report to in charges/seniors
- establish good working relationships with clients as you discuss relevant audit issues with the client's people
- post journals in accounts packages (SAPA)
- complete relevant sections of the audit file on computerised audit software (Electronic Explorer)
- complete documents such as bank and solicitor letters in Word and input financial data into Excel
- check, read and add up sets of accounts
- complete audit tests in all sections
- attend stocktakes and report your findings
- carry out company searches and research.
For a business advisory career, the qualifications we support are either ACA (membership of one of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants), ACCA (membership of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), or CIPFA (membership of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy).and your training will take about three years to complete. Accountancy training covers accounting, auditing, business finance, business management, financial reporting and taxation.
As an Audit trainee your first six months will be a combination of on the job training & technical training at our exclusive training centre, Bradenham Manor and also with the Financial Training Company.
Grant Thornton has offices across the UK and there are several industry groups within Audit that you can specialise in later in your career, e.g. Motor Retail or Agriculture.
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RISK MANAGEMENT (ACA or ACCA)
Business Risk Services (BRS)
BRS provide specialist, impartial commercial advice and solutions for businesses who embrace risk management as a vital component of modern business management and as a tool for competitive advantage.
The BRS team provides comprehensive services including:
- Internal Audit
- Technology Risk Management
- Process Assessment
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- Financial Services
- Value Management
- Governance Advisory.
Assignments tend to be based at the client and can range from bookings of around a week to up to 3 months. The majority of client work is based in the UK but sometimes there may be opportunities to travel abroad.
We look for graduates who:
- are interested in corporate governance and risk management techniques
- can work with senior management and company boards and enjoy giving practical advice
- are keen to work with larger companies with a focus on UK and US listed entities
- want to add value to our clients by improving the way they control their business
- can present and defend their opinions with senior management
- can think creatively to formulate and deliver bespoke solutions to clients
- look forward to assignments which will involve regular travel in the UK and abroad
- want to understand and contribute to companies' use and management of technology.
Risk Management work includes:
- documenting business processes to capture and assess the control environment
performing risk-based reviews (under guidance) including planning, test design, fieldwork, drafting reports and agreeing recommendations with management
- providing advice to clients on corporate governance including gap analyses between actual activities and best practice
- assisting in facilitating risk management workshops with senior management to capture and assess the risks to their business
- document and assess IT control and security
- advise on the impacts of IT changes
- helping our US listed clients comply with governance practices and the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley legislation
- developing solutions to deliver ad hoc projects
- significant exposure to marketing and business development
- presenting to internal and external seminars and conferences on relevant issues
- Study for ACA examinations combined with in house training on basic technical accounting and auditing skills.
More about Technology Risk Management
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TAX
Our Tax teams closely monitor UK and international tax regulation and continuously review our clients’ business structures, operations and personal financial arrangements to ensure they deliver optimum sustainable tax efficiencies, and comply with current regulation.
Grant Thornton tax trainees can choose the tax-based approach to the ACA qualification (three years training), or the CTA qualification offered by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). Training for CTA will take two to three years, with the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT) qualification obtained en route.
We have a range of specialisms within the Tax department including Corporate Tax, Entrepreneur and Private Client, Employer Solutions, VAT & Transfer Pricing.
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RECOVERY & REORGANISATION (ACA or ACCA)
The last few years have seen the emergence of the 'rescue culture', an increase in the use of business recovery strategy and the willingness of banks and other stakeholders to give distressed companies every opportunity to turn their operations around with formal insolvency reserved as an option only in the last resort. This means that we are increasingly asked to help companies find solutions to their problems often by restructuring their business and helping them to focus on core activities. We work in four key areas:
- Corporate Recovery
- Court work
- IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement)
- CPU (Case Progression Unit)
Could you analyse the profit drivers of a manufacturing business? Negotiate with banks and suppliers for extensions? Deal with the director facing the collapse of the company that he formed, and tell him that your assessment is that the business has lost its way? Run a company?
As a Reorganisaton and Recovery trainee you’ll need to be tactful, diplomatic, methodical, accurate and commercially aware. You’ll welcome a challenge in a stimulating environment that deals with real-world issues in a real world way.
Click here for a job description.
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ACTUARIAL CONSULTING (FIA)
Actuarial trainees at Grant Thornton can expect interesting and diverse assignments across general insurance, life insurance and pensions matters. We provide a comprehensive range of solutions to a broad spectrum of financial services clients, including regulatory authorities, insurance and reinsurance companies, Lloyd's syndicates, life companies, pension schemes and professional advisers. Areas covered include business strategy, price modeling, profit testing, closed fund transfers, insolvencies, asset-liability modeling, valuations of liabilities, independent expert assignments, employee benefits and healthcare.
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