Graduate scheme
KPMG is Ireland’s leading professional services firm, hiring 400+ graduates each year to become Chartered Accountants. Our 118+ partners and 4,300 employees are committed to helping you succeed in developing a career as a successful business adviser in a friendly, stimulating, and supportive environment. Our people are our most important asset. We invest €20 million annually in training and development too provide best in class professional development from our award-winning KPMG Business School.
About the KPMG Graduate Programme
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our next cohort of the highly successful KPMG Graduate Programme for Autumn 2026! As a graduate based in Dublin, you’ll engage in meaningful work in Risk Consulting, Regulatory Consulting, or Financial Management Consulting practices on a 3.5-year training contract, with a cohort of fellow graduates working towards their associate-chartered accountant (ACA) qualifications. We take our responsibility to ensure that you excel in your professional exams seriously. Our exam pass rate is 10% to 30% better than the national average and #1 in Ireland and we consistently have many of our employees placed in the top ten results in the country including 100% pass rate for 2024!
If the below sounds like you, we hope you’ll apply!
- Current undergraduate student in your final year of university or current master’s student at university from any degree discipline
- Minimum 2.1 current university results
- Demonstrated initiative and/or university involvement
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for a client-facing role
How will you make an impact?
- We’re market leaders across numerous diverse services including Risk Transformation, Regulatory Governance, Digital, Technology
- Advise and work with clients on how to use business intelligence and metrics to access the right information at the right time to make effective business decisions
- Advise and work with clients on technology and process improvement methodologies to transform their Finance Function, define their finance operating models and make finance operations more efficient.
- Our teams work collaboratively to develop solutions to our clients’ most complex issues around performance (maximising value) and governance (preserving value)
- Leading in Business & Tech advisory for Financial Services
- Platform X: Dublin innovation hub for Consulting with labs, collaboration suites, and global/local technology platforms to generate solutions focusing on Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation
Join a community with great benefits!
- Hybrid working
- Mentorship through our Performance Manager & Buddy programme
- Connect to your local community through our robust Corporate Citizenship activities
- Coverage of ACA exam fees
- Early finish on Fridays in June, July & August & before Bank Holiday weekends
- Subsidised staff restaurant
- 23 holidays per year with the option to purchase up to 7 additional days
- Sport & Social and Wellbeing Initiatives including free Digital Doctor
- Pension Scheme
We’re proud of our award-winning programmes!
- #1 gradIreland Best Graduate Employer of the year 2021, 2023 and 2025
- #1 gradIreland Best Graduate Training & Development Programme 2025
- #2 gradIreland Best Graduate Training & Development Programme 2024
- #2 gradIreland Best Sustainability in Graduate Recruitment 2024 and 2025
- #2 gradIreland Best Graduate Marketing Campaign 2025
- #1 gradIreland Best Internship Programme of the year 2024
- Universum’s Top 3 Most Attractive Grad Employer Ireland 2019 – 2024
Necessary arrangements can be made at interview stage to accommodate the needs of candidates with disabilities.
More Details
Apply by
18.10.2025
