2025 Summer Internship Programme

Who we are

Grant Thornton is a global provider of professional services, spanning more than 145 countries with a team of 68,000 professionals working to build sustainable, scalable solutions to address real-world problems. In Ireland, our team comprises of nearly 2,600 professionals providing a full range of Audit, Tax and Advisory services to clients of all sizes and industries. Our expertise goes beyond the traditional consulting fields: we advise clients on cyber security and forensics, AI, automation, cloud technology, sustainability and more, helping them find best-in-class solutions for today’s pressing challenges.

An internship with us will provide you with an opportunity to experience our inclusive culture, our Values of Fun, Collaboration, Grounded, Passionate and Integrity; and gain a real-life insight into what a career with us would be like.

Our paid Summer Internship Programme runs for 6 weeks, from 3rd June 2025 – 11th July 2025, and offers opportunities across our service lines:

• Advisory
• Audit
• Tax

Internships are available in our Dublin, Cork, Galway & Limerick offices.

You will gain valuable insights, practical experience and knowledge that will allow you to experience different areas and aspects of our business.

You will receive customised learning and development training in technical and soft skills, as part of our ‘Friday Programme.’ During your internship, you will work on a project focused on problem solving and fact finding.

Our Summer Interns also participate in CSR activities to support our local communities and ‘give back’, as well as enjoying a variety of social and team building activities.

Choosing your path

Choose the Summer Internship Programme that’s most suited to your career interests and aspirations:

Advisory

Our Advisory team work closely with organisations of all sizes, from start-ups to SMEs to large multinationals, to address challenges in business-critical areas such as consulting, risk advisory, digital transformation, change management, corporate finance, business strategy and more. As a Summer Intern, you’ll work on the ground, completing projects as part of a team of subject-matter experts. Our clients are as varied as the problems they face, operating across various industries, including financial services, retail, law, food and agriculture, technology, healthcare and more.

Audit & Assurance

As a Summer Intern on the Audit & Assurance team, you’ll gain insights in to working with diverse portfolio of clients, from start-ups to SMEs to global multinationals, operating in various industries across Ireland, the UK and the US. You’ll be exposed to clients working in pharmaceuticals, fintech, banking, hospitality, asset management and more, and you’ll have the opportunity to work with Grant Thornton subject-matter experts and understand what a career in Audit and Assurance might look like.

Tax

Working with Grant Thornton’s Tax team as a Summer Intern, you will gain invaluable insights working across a diverse range of routine tax compliance work to high end innovative tax planning solutions, covering all tax heads, such as business, corporate or personal tax, VAT, Financial Services (FS), plus others.

Who we're looking for

We are hiring summer interns from various disciplines, including business, computer science, STEM, accountancy, and more. We're seeking creative thinkers with fresh ideas and traditionalists who dream big. Our goal is to inspire you to grow professionally while embracing who you are personally.

If you are in your penultimate year of study and on track to get a minimum 2.1 in your degree and have strong IT skills, then we want you to work with us. You provide the ambition; we’ll provide the experience.

Application process

• Our application process doesn’t take long, but please make sure to complete the form as completely and accurately as possible
• We may review as we go, so please get your application to us in plenty of time!
• We’re here to help. If you have any questions, contact our graduate recruitment team at graduaterecruitment@ie.gt.com
• Closing date is Friday 31st of January 2025.