Consulting Associate - Dublin 2025

15 days to apply
Apply by: 16.10.2024

Graduate scheme

Job description

Forvis Mazars is a leading professional services firm in Ireland with ambitious growth plans and over 800 staff based in Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Limerick. As an internationally integrated partnership, we operate in over 100 countries and territories around the world and draw on the expertise of over 50,000 professionals to assist clients of all sizes at every stage in their development.

Why join us

Our next-generation graduate training programme is designed around understanding and appreciating the distinct qualities and experiences of each employee and where possible providing personalised support, mentoring, and resources tailored to individual needs and aspirations.

We put people before processes, empowering you to lead, innovate and foster your entrepreneurial talents. If you are looking for a career where you can truly make an impact, Forvis Mazars is the right place for you.
Our consulting graduate programme is unique in Ireland, offering associates the opportunity to experience all aspects of management consulting across the three years of our programme.

The Position

As a consulting associate, you will work with a range of interesting clients in the public and financial services sectors, whilst undergoing professional training and rotating across a series of consulting service areas such as strategy, organisation development, change and transformation, culture, people consulting, finance decision support, financial services regulatory consulting, privacy and ESG.

Every day is different for a consultant. You will be assisting different clients with their business’s challenges and developing tailored pragmatic solutions. Service rotations will help you to identify areas most suited to your abilities and we will support you with dedicated mentoring, coaching, technical upskilling and professional development so that you are set up for success.

Successful applicants will be employed under a three-year training and development programme to start in October 2025. During this period, you will be trained to operate to the highest professional standards across a variety of consulting disciplines. We will provide you with support in sitting a range of professional examinations, depending on your area of interest.

Your responsibilities will grow with each year of the contract completed, and any examinations passed. By the end of your training, you will take full responsibility for day to day delivery of client consulting assignments.

Job requirements

The ideal candidate will have good interpersonal and client interaction skills and be capable of applying a rigorous and enthusiastic approach to your work. The role provides candidates with the opportunity to become a member of a dynamic consulting team in a rapidly growing area of business and offers highly attractive career development opportunities.

Principal requirements

  • Honours Degree and/or Masters in any discipline
  • Wide range of interests across many disciplines
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Rigour and attention to detail
  • Ability to operate in a challenging and dynamic environment
  • Capacity to learn and absorb information quickly
  • Self-motivated
  • Demonstrably strong analytic skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Capacity to listen and influence

Training Programme Outline

The Forvis Mazars Consulting Training Programme is based upon the fact that competence and professional expertise is derived from a combination of real-life experience, structured training, personal motivation and learning.

As a Consulting Associate, you will spend time working across each of our service areas:

  • Decision support and financial modelling
  • Human resources
  • Information technology
  • Organisation design
  • Change management & transformation
  • Operations
  • Privacy
  • Strategic planning
  • Research, development & innovation
  • Sustainability
  • Financial services regulatory consulting

Forvis Mazars is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants and all staff will pursue both Certified Management Consultant status and Prince 2 Project Management qualifications as part of their training programme.

Our training programme aims to structure the learning process through identification of the core skills required across all areas of consulting, knowledge transfer on projects and the identification of key training needs at each level.

Associates are provided with support throughout the training programme

  • All associates will be assigned a Mentor
  • Formal quarterly reviews will be held with the Mentor
  • All Associates will be assigned a buddy
  • Continuous feedback from both the Mentor and trainee throughout the year
  • Training requirements can be identified with the assistance of the Mentor or relevant Manager
  • Twice yearly review with Consulting Partner and Manager
  • Feedback on consulting strategy plans

More Details

Apply by

16.10.2024

Locations

Dublin, Ireland.

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