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More than you expected

Grant Thornton UK LLP is part of a global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms, made up of some 73,000 people in over 150 countries. We’re a team of independent thinkers who put quality, inclusion and integrity first. All around the world we bring a different experience to our clients. A better experience. One that delivers the expertise they need in a way that goes beyond. Personal, proactive, and agile. That’s Grant Thornton.

Job Description:

Great minds. Nothing alike.

Get to know us, our clients and start learning more about yourself. As an associate in Transaction Advisory, you’ll work as part of a diverse team and be passionate about understanding the issues that drive value within a transaction for our clients. The competitive and constantly evolving landscape calls for an approach that puts what’s right first, you will need to learn from those around you, discuss your ideas and ask the difficult questions to support our clients in achieving the maximum value from their transaction. There’ll be challenges along the way, and a collaborative approach is key, but you’ll be supported and able to meet each one with a solution. That’s how you excel here.

Our Transactional Advisory Services practise comprises of more that 200 people across the country including 16 partners. Whether our clients are private equity houses looking to acquire their next portfolio company or entrepreneurs looking to exit having successfully built a business, they benefit from the breadth and depth of experience and resource within the team.

For this role we cannot sponsor any visa applicants

A look into your future

Our three-year graduate programme is designed to take you on a journey from graduate to professionally qualified. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll experience during your first three years:

• Hands on experience in the different aspects of Transaction Advisory including within our focus Financial Services and Sale and Purchase Agreement Advisory teams, with a variety of clients
• Responsibility from early in your career, with opportunities to take ownership for interesting and challenging client work
• The work you’ll do with our clients is of huge importance. As part of our advisory process, you’ll work as part of a team to make sure our clients extract maximum value from a transaction
• You will be helping private equity houses, corporates and entrepreneurs understand the financial performance of the business at the heart of the transaction. You’ll be interested in financial trends and have a keen sense of ‘why’ in understanding the reasons a business has performed the way it has and how it might perform in the future. This process of summarising and commenting on the performance of the business is called Financial Due Diligence in the context of a transaction (or FDD). Our findings can signifcantly alter the value of a transaction which makes this work vitally important

Beyond the job

Life is more than work. Our framework for how we work outlines our approach to agile working, and together with your people manager and team, you’ll decide the best way of working, for your clients, your team and for you. Everyone here enjoys a competitive salary, and you’ll receive our core benefits including, life assurance, income protection and private medical cover plus access to a range of voluntary benefits to choose from focused on health, family and wellbeing.