2027 Advisory Graduate Programme - Belfast
Grant Thornton Ireland
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Job summary
Grant Thornton Ireland invites graduates to apply for its Advisory Graduate Programme for 2027, based in Belfast. The scheme offers capability preferences across Transactions, Management Consulting, AI/Data & Technology, Accounting, Cyber & Risk, and Quants & Actuarial, with structured learning, coaching and early client exposure.
Applicants should be academically strong, commercially aware and keen to develop as trusted business advisors within a collaborative Advisory environment.
Qualifications
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication.
- Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to learn.
- Commercial awareness and sound judgement.
Responsibilities
- Support advisory projects across Transactions, Management Consulting, AI/Data & Technology, Accounting, Cyber & Risk, and Quant & Actuarial streams.
- Assist with client deliverables and presentations.
- Develop transferable consulting skills through structured learning and coaching.
Job description
Graduate Programme 2027 – Build your future in Advisory
Advisory work is rarely confined to one discipline. Our clients come to us with complex, connected challenges, and our teams bring together commercial, financial, digital, risk and transformation expertise to help solve them. We work with organisations at every stage of their business journey, from growth and transformation to transactions, risk management, technology adoption, financial reporting and operational improvement.
That means graduates can build transferable skills from the outset, while still indicating where their interests and strengths may best fit across Advisory.
You will submit one application to the Advisory Graduate Programme and select up to three capability preferences. This helps us understand where your interests lie while allowing us to consider your skills, strengths and aspirations across the breadth of Advisory.
- Support financial and commercial due diligence engagements
- Assist with mergers, acquisitions, disposals and fundraising projects
- Contribute to business valuations and financial modelling
- Support restructuring and recovery assignments
- Analyse financial and operational performance
- Prepare reports, presentations and client deliverables
- Support aviation-related advisory and finance projects
This pathway may suit graduates who enjoy commercial analysis, finance, problem-solving and fast-paced project environments
- Support business transformation and change programmes
- Participate in stakeholder workshops and client engagements
- Conduct business research and structured analysis
- Assist with programme and project management
- Identify opportunities for process and operating-model improvement
- Develop presentations, reports and recommendations
- Support organisational and workforce transformation initiatives
This pathway may suit graduates who enjoy problem-solving, communication, storytelling, collaboration and working across industries.
- Support data analytics, reporting and insight initiatives
- Assist in developing dashboards and management information solutions
- Work with Power BI and Microsoft technologies
- Support data governance and data-quality programmes
- Contribute to responsible AI-enabled business transformation
- Assist with digital and technology-enabled process improvement
- Translate business needs into practical technology and data solutions
This pathway may suit graduates interested in data, analytics, technology, engineering, innovation and business problem-solving. Technical qualifications are welcomed, but curiosity and willingness to learn are also important.
- Support accounting and financial-reporting assignments
- Assist clients with statutory reporting matters
- Help prepare and review financial statements
- Conduct accounting and regulatory research
- Support finance-transformation initiatives
- Assist with the implementation of new accounting standards
- Contribute to transaction-related accounting projects
- Analyse financial information and business performance
This pathway may suit graduates interested in accounting, finance, reporting and commercial problem-solving.
- Support internal-audit and assurance engagements
- Assist with enterprise risk-management projects
- Participate in risk assessments and control reviews
- Support governance, compliance and regulatory initiatives
- Analyse business, operational and risk information
- Contribute to cyber-risk and operational-resilience programmes
This pathway may suit graduates interested in risk, investigation, technology, governance, regulation and how organisations operate.
- Develop quantitative solutions to complex risk measurement questions
- Contribute to actuarial and insurance advisory engagements
- Analyse business, financial and risk data.
- Prepare reports, presentations and recommendations for clients.
This pathway may suit graduates interested in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, finance, insurance, regulation and solving complex problems through quantitative analysis .
- Exposure to diverse client projects across industries
- Structured learning and career-development opportunities
- Dedicated coaching, mentoring and peer support
- Professional qualification support where relevant
- Early responsibility and client interaction
- Opportunities to collaborate across Advisory and the wider firm
- Access to national and international colleagues and expertise
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to learn
- Commercial awareness and sound judgement
- Attention to detail and commitment to qualityAbility to work effectively within teams
- Adaptability and resilience
- A genuine interest in helping organisations solve complex challenges
Experience gained through an internship, part-time role, volunteering, university society or team-based project. Candidates should be on track to achieve a minimum 2.1 degree classification and possess strong IT skills and a desire to develop as a trusted business advisor.
We welcome applications from a broad range of disciplines. Depending on the capability preference, relevant backgrounds may include business, commerce, economics, accounting, finance, law, psychology, computer science, data science, information systems, mathematics, statistics, physics and engineering. Degree title alone will not determine placement.
Our graduate experience is designed to support both breadth and depth. Some graduates may gain exposure across different teams, industries and client challenges before deciding where to specialise; others may begin developing deeper expertise in a particular capability, sector or service line from an early stage.
Whichever path you choose, you will be supported within a collaborative Advisory environment, with opportunities to learn, grow and contribute across a wide range of client engagements and programmes.
Location and working arrangement: Belfast office, primarily office-based.
- Closing date Thursday 22 October 2026.
- Selection process early November 2026. Start date Q4 2027.
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