It’s an exciting time to be joining Grant Thornton, especially as a trainee at the start of your career. We have some big growth ambitions, and we’re looking for the best future talent to help us achieve these.

So who are we?

​In the UK we’re led by CEO Malcolm Gomersall with over 200 partners and 5,500 people across the UK, and our services fall into three main areas:

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Life at Grant Thornton

You are more than just a number here, as a trainee you’ll have real opportunities and responsibilities from early in your career. And if you have the ambition and the drive to excel you can develop a varied and exciting career within the firm. Watch this short video to hear from some of our past and present trainees about their careers within the firm and how they have progressed. 

You can explore our different training programmes below. 

Apprenticeships

For anyone with A-Level (or equivalent) qualifications, an apprenticeship helps fast track you to qualification whilst you earn, and if you join straight after A-Levels, you can qualify ahead of your peers who go to university. 

Find out more about apprenticeships

Graduates

Our three-year graduate programme will take you from graduate to professionally qualified, opening up a world of opportunity. With the scale and variety of clients we work with, no two days are the same at Grant Thornton, whether you join us in audit, tax or advisory.

Explore your options

Interns and placements

Our summer internships and 12-month placements for university students give you a fantastic opportunity to find out more about careers in professional services and life at Grant Thornton, and they can set you on a fast track through to an offer for your graduate programme.

Discover more

Work experience

Our work experience programme, Ignite, has been designed to give you an insight into the world of accountancy, and the career opportunities this can offer you. You will spend a week in one of our offices immersing yourself into life at Grant Thornton.

Ignite your career