2025 Future Leaders Academy – Forensic and Financial Crime Graduate Opportunity (Hybrid)

Deloitte is the biggest professional services Firm in the world and making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. We’re driven to create positive progress for our clients, community, people, and the planet. This sense of purpose inspires us to work to the highest standards, to tackle the challenges that matter.

Who We Are

Deloitte is the world’s largest professional services firm, delivering expertise in Audit & Assurance, Tax & Legal, and Consulting. With a global network of 457,000 professionals across 150 countries—including 3,000+ in Ireland—we provide world-class solutions.

How to Apply

In the application dropdown, select Advisory as your preferred business area and select your preferred team: eg: Forensics

Why Join Deloitte Ireland’s Future Leaders Academy?

Join Ireland’s #1 graduate programme (gradireland’s Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in Professional Services, 5 years running). Our Future Leaders Academy is designed to develop the next generation of professionals with world-class learning and career growth.

Your Five-Year Journey

• Year 1: Onboarding, integration, and building connections.
• Year 2: Exploration and practical application of new skills.
• Year 3: Developing expertise in your chosen field.
• Year 4: Deepening knowledge and learning inclusive leadership.
• Year 5: Stepping into leadership roles, applying the insights gained throughout your journey.

What does a Forensic Associate do?

Fraud, conflicts of interest, code of conduct violations and regulatory non-compliance are unfortunate business realities, with severe impacts. At Deloitte Forensic, we help our clients to act quickly and confidently in a crisis, investigation, or dispute.

Our team has experience in all types of forensic investigations and in helping organisations manage and reduce the risks of fraud and other financial crimes. We use our network, deep industry experience and advanced analytical technology to understand and resolve issues and provide proactive advice to our clients.

As a Forensic Associate, you will:

• Assist clients to react quickly to investigate allegations of accounting misstatement, fraud, bribery and corruption, including regulatory breaches.
• Conduct financial analysis to identify red-flag indicators of corporate misconduct and fraud.
• Work closely with our Forensic Technology team to extract and review both structured (i.e. databases, enterprise systems, etc.) and unstructured (i.e. email messages, audio files, etc.) data to assist in investigations and assessing/monitoring fraud risk.
• Assist in the preparation of formal investigation interviews.
• Work in multi-disciplinary teams, collating and assessing various forms of evidence.
• Conduct forensic accounting and other financial analysis to be incorporated into expert witness reports to quantify losses as part of commercial legal disputes.
• Assist in the drafting of formal reports in the context of expert witness or investigation assignments.
• Work closely with our Forensic Technology team to extract and review both structured (i.e. databases, enterprise systems, etc.) and unstructured (i.e. email messages, audio files, etc.) data to assist in investigations and assessing/monitoring fraud risk.
• Develop new methods and tools (e.g. using Gen-AI) to support the high quality and innovative delivery of advice and services to clients.

Beyond the learning involved in supporting a range of important clients in relevant projects and working alongside the best professionals using trending technologies, you will be supported in completing Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ACA) qualification.

Who We’re Looking For

• Academic : On track for or have achieved a 2.1 honours degree
• Eligibility : Legal right to work in Ireland
• Skills : Strong analytical, communication & problem-solving abilities
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Mindset : Passion for integrity, innovation, leadership & value creation
• Most importantly we want people who are passionate about helping our global clients solve problems more effectively in their time of crises

Deloitte’s Market-Leading Benefits

• Flexibility & Time Off: 21 days annual leave (plus 1 ‘Deloitte Day’), early-finish Fridays in summer, global remote working opportunities
• Competitive Compensation: Market-leading salary, private health insurance (from day one), employer-matched pension contributions
• Professional Development: Fully sponsored ACA qualification , extensive study leave, & continuous learning programs
• Global Opportunities: International secondments after program completion

Ready to Launch Your Career? Apply Today!

• Location: Hybrid role based in Dublin
• When : This role starts in Autumn 2025
• Important: You can apply to only one graduate program—choose wisely!
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• What makes our Future Leaders Academy unique? Read more here.

Role will close for application on Tuesday 22nd April 2025

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.​

What we offer

Your reward at Deloitte is competitive, supports our purpose and enables our people to never stop growing. Your reward at Deloitte is not just your salary, we believe in investing in our people's personal and professional development and empowering their work-life balance. Our ambition is to achieve gender equality and enable continuous growth. We offer supports and benefits that suit you, wherever you are in life, including health and well-being, pension, savings, training, coaching and enhanced leave options among others.

Keep on being you. Bring your full, absolute self to work, every day. Explore, question and collaborate. Stretch your thinking, while building a career that inspires and energises you. And, whatever motivates you, keep growing both professionally and personally – because when you make an impact that matters, we do too.