Graduate Employers Guides - Grant Thornton

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Employer Information

• Application deadline: Not set
• Starting salaries: Highly competitive
• Regions: Nationwide
• Industries: Finance
• Website: http://www.grant-thornton.co.uk/
• Email: N/A
• Telephone: N/A
• Address: Main UK office:

Grant Thornton House
Melton Street
Euston Square
London
NW1 2EP

What is Grant Thornton?

Grant Thornton is a leading UK provider of financial and business advice. A member of Grant Thornton International, it has an extensive range of expertise and correspondent firms, allowing Grant Thornton to offer specialised and high quality advice to its clients in every field. It prides itself on being a market leader for value and quality of service and graduates joining Grant Thornton will be able to help continue this fine tradition.

What roles are available at Grant Thornton?

Roles are available in: Audit; Business Risk Services, Tax; Recovery and Reorganisation; Actuarial.

Application process for Grant Thornton

Apply online via Grant Thornton's job search function.

Entry requirements and type of person suited for Grant Thornton.

For most schemes, graduates must have a 2:1 or higher in any academic discipline, 300 UCAS points and at least B grades at GCSE Maths and English Language, or equivalent qualifications. Candidates should first and foremost show an enthusiasm for a career in financial and business advising. Graduates should show good communication skills, commercial awareness, team work and leadership skills, intellectual and judgemental ability and good organisational skills.

Future prospects and training at Grant Thornton.

Training contracts with Grant Thornton usually last for three years. The training period will involve on the job placements as well as a serious of individual and group training schemes, aimed at equipping graduates with the relevant business knowldge, technical expertise and personal skills for a successful career in business finance. At the same time, Grant Thornton expects graduates to complete formal qualifications giving them better future prospects.

Other comments about Grant Thornton.

Experiences

If you have applied to Grant Thornton, we would like you to hear from you. Please use the following form to detail your experiences of application, to aid those interested in following a similar career path.

Position applied for: Assurance Graduate
Year of Application: 2009
Region: London
Educational Background: Economics and Finance

What were your experiences of the application process?
The application is a standard competency based application with around 4 questions to answer. The telephone interview is straight forward and many of my friends have easily passed it without doing much research or preparation. If you are having an interview with HR (rather than a manager/partner) just reel off some facts and figures and this impresses them a lot as some they dont even know about. They are very friendly though and try your best to get on their good side. When having lunch with current grads, listen to what they say as this can be used in the interview process.

What is it like working for Grant Thornton?
Assurance is the same everywhere but the support for exams is quite poor. That being said they have a dedicated centre outside of London for training which reminds you of your university days.

How has it compared to your expectations?
Clients have varied, form small disorganized clients to large clients in the city. This is very helpful though as I expected to not have much responsibility but depending on your client your responsibility varies greatly.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
I have left the company to pursue a career in investment banking.

Finally, any advice you would give to potential applicants?
Research the company (as always) and make sure you understand that they arent as big as the Big4 but gaining the ACA from GT is well regarded.