Consulting Graduate Programme - FY26
KPMG South Africa
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
The business world is constantly evolving - accelerating advances in technology and changes in business models are transforming the rules and risks of the game. We need dynamic people with a fresh perspective to join our diverse team within KPMG’s Consulting unit, to assist us in taking our client-focused services to the next level.
We work with our clients to cut through their most complex strategic challenges and build tailored, practical solutions to help them develop more efficient and effective operations and develop actionable plans to mitigate the business challenges rooted in their operating environments. This includes leveraging cutting-edge and emerging technologies / solutions (such as robotics, IoT and advanced data analytics) to unlock value.
The graduate programme is designed to teach you how to provide clients with detailed value-adding solutions within a rapidly evolving technological environment, underpinned by an understanding of the wider business implications.
Our consulting professionals are drawn from a wide range of technological and business backgrounds. We share the KPMG values (integrity, excellence, courage, together, for better) as our common platform. Our teams also share common personal qualities, namely resilience, determination and the adaptability / agility to address challenges in a complex business environment.
Our graduate programme is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking, passionate individuals searching for an environment that is vibrant, challenging and rewarding in which to grow their skillsets. To facilitate this, we have several business units within consulting looking for talent, graduates will be leveraged across the business units within consulting as part of the graduate programme run over two years.
General Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be required to work in teams, together with experienced consultants, to deliver on client facing engagements. This may include:
We work with our clients to cut through their most complex strategic challenges and build tailored, practical solutions to help them develop more efficient and effective operations and develop actionable plans to mitigate the business challenges rooted in their operating environments. This includes leveraging cutting-edge and emerging technologies / solutions (such as robotics, IoT and advanced data analytics) to unlock value.
The graduate programme is designed to teach you how to provide clients with detailed value-adding solutions within a rapidly evolving technological environment, underpinned by an understanding of the wider business implications.
Our consulting professionals are drawn from a wide range of technological and business backgrounds. We share the KPMG values (integrity, excellence, courage, together, for better) as our common platform. Our teams also share common personal qualities, namely resilience, determination and the adaptability / agility to address challenges in a complex business environment.
Our graduate programme is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking, passionate individuals searching for an environment that is vibrant, challenging and rewarding in which to grow their skillsets. To facilitate this, we have several business units within consulting looking for talent, graduates will be leveraged across the business units within consulting as part of the graduate programme run over two years.
General Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be required to work in teams, together with experienced consultants, to deliver on client facing engagements. This may include:
- Assistance in the execution of the project scope (including the use of relevant and innovative software / technology tools)
- Brainstorming ideas and solutions with their team members
- Identifying areas for improvement for and creating solutions to streamline the client’s service delivery / organisational structures and ways of working / technology / governance & control / performance data & insights / processes and procedures.
- Research and collection of evidence (including information required to stress-test the client’s perspectives on the reason for their challenges)
- Assistance with project control (initiation, tracking, reporting, risk management, budget analysis)
- Liaising with all levels of client personnel (e.g., hosting client interviews, meetings, and workshops)
- Creation and presentation of client deliverables (data models, reports, presentations etc.)
- Assisting with the development client proposals
- BSc Computer Science / Information Technology / Information Systems / Data Science or similar
- BCom Information Systems (IS) / Informatics / Computer Science or similar
- BusSc. Computer Science / Information Technology or similar
- BSc / BEng Mechanical Engineering (with IT/IS modules) or similar
- Engineering degrees (Industrial, Mechanical and Electrical and Information) or similar
- BCom Mathematics or similar
- BSc Mathematical Sciences / Mathematics and Economics or similar
- BSc Mathematical Statistics and Economics or similar
- BSc Applied Mathematics & Computer Science / Actuarial Science or similar
- Degree in Business Mathematics and Informatics or similar
- BCom Economics or Honours in Economics / Econometrics or similar
- BCom Supply Chain Management or similar
- BCom Supply Chain Procurement or similar
- BCom Management Accounting or similar
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or similar
- BCom in Business Finance Business Management degrees or similar
- Master’s in industrial psychology - only students with a Masters or currently completing their Masters studies will be considered
- Masters in HR / Honours student starting their Masters (Post-Graduate Diploma)
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