Register your interest for Grant Thornton’s 2027 early careers opportunities and get ahead before applications open in September. This is a chance to hear first about placement, apprentice and graduate programmes starting in September 2027, while also gaining access to exclusive invite-only webinars designed to help you explore your options and prepare with confidence. Whether you are looking for a placement, internship, apprenticeship or graduate route, Grant Thornton offers structured support, real responsibility and the opportunity to build your future in professional services.
About Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton offers a range of early careers programmes designed to match different starting points and ambitions, including apprenticeships, graduate programmes, internships and work placements.
Last year, more than 20,000 people applied to join Grant Thornton’s early career trainee programmes. By signing up early, you’ll be among the first to hear when applications open and you’ll gain access to an exclusive, invite-only webinar series taking place over the summer, created to help you explore your options and prepare with confidence.
Grant Thornton works across areas including Large & Complex Advisory, Deals Advisory & Consulting, Tax, and Audit & Assurance, giving early careers candidates the chance to explore different routes into professional services.
The Role
Choosing where to start your career is a big decision, and registering your interest with Grant Thornton now gets you one step ahead before placement, apprentice and graduate applications open in September, to join in September 2027.
Whether you are finishing school, completing university or exploring work experience, Grant Thornton offers a range of programmes designed to match different starting points and ambitions.
- Apprenticeships combine real client work, professional qualifications and long-term career development
- Graduate Programmes provide a full-time route into professional services with hands-on experience from day one
- Internships and Work Placements offer shorter, immersive experiences to help you understand the firm, develop your skills and explore whether a career in audit, tax or advisory feels right for you
Company Culture
Grant Thornton is a firm where you will have real responsibility, real support and real impact from day one. Its culture is inclusive, people first and built on ambition, trust and flexibility.
Over the past year, Grant Thornton has made bold decisions other firms would not attempt at its scale, including new investment, new ownership models and a partnership that is expanding at pace. The result is progression that moves faster than traditional firms can offer, and development pathways designed for potential, not tenure.
Grant Thornton is investing heavily in digital, not for the headline, but for the head start it gives its people, freeing them to solve bigger problems with sharper tools.
While ambition is high, you will still find a culture where hierarchy stays light, inclusion is lived rather than stated, and flexibility is shaped around how people do their best work, not how it has always been done.
Benefits and Perks
- Early access to updates before applications open
- Exclusive access to an invite-only accountant-of-the-future webinar series
- Structured training, coaching and support
- Real client work and hands-on experience from day one, depending on programme route
- Professional qualifications on selected trainee routes
- Development pathways designed around potential
- Inclusive, people-first culture built on ambition, trust and flexibility
- Opportunity to explore careers in audit, tax, advisory, consulting and deals
Requirements
- Interest in starting a career in professional services
- Curiosity and a willingness to learn
- Interest in understanding how organisations work
- Collaborative mindset
- Motivation to grow and take ownership of your development
- Confidence to bring your ideas, individuality and perspective
- No requirement to have studied accounting
- Open to individuals from all backgrounds, experiences and education routes
- Suitable for candidates considering placement, apprentice or graduate applications for September 2027
If you want to be first in line for Grant Thornton’s September applications and gain exclusive access to its accountant-of-the-future webinar series, register your interest today. Take the first step and stay updated on 2027 early-career opportunities.
