KPMG 2025 Consulting - Regulatory and Risk Graduate Programme - Leeds

How we make the difference in Regulatory and Risk

Our Regulatory & Risk Advisory Graduate programme is designed to give you the experience and core consulting skills you need to get your career off to a flying start. You'll build your commercial understanding and business acumen to deliver real value to our clients straight away.

The work is not only interesting and varied, but it's also high profile. With the current economic climate and in a world of increasing complexity, clients and Regulators are focusing ever more closely on risk and regulatory issues.

You can expect to work in the following areas:

Modelling and Model Risk Management: Model Risk is the potential for adverse outputs/outcomes from errors in business and financial models and inappropriate model use. Working with clients on their model development, validation and overall governance, you will also get the opportunity to learn coding languages as you support clients in a number of areas such as climate risk modelling and credit risk modelling.

Financial Risk and Resilience: Support our clients across critical areas of prudential regulatory, ESG and insurance risks. This team of market leading experts provide services like assurance, deal support, and optimisation across critical board level topics.

Wholesale: Work with a broad range of wholesale clients helping them to tackle a variety of challenges such as; wholesale conduct risk, risk transformation, Internal controls and Non-financial reporting regulation.

Retail: In retail, your focus will be on retail clients You could be involved in conduct and consumer protection, operational resilience and CASS. Client organisations vary, from global asset managers with operations in multiple jurisdictions to insurance clients to clients in the banking sector.

How you’ll grow with us

Our three-year programme gives you the chance to build your experience and develop your expertise in Risk management across the entire financial sector, as part of our 'learn for a lifetime' philosophy.

With the support of our learning community, you’ll work toward a professional qualification, the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification.

The teams you could work in

You will be working across multiple teams that advises clients on dynamic regulatory compliance programmes and helps them to integrate sustainability into Risk management functions to ensure they are doing right by the environment and society.

You’ll also be helping our clients solve business problems by developing tailored and pragmatic solutions, It’s an endlessly fascinating area for our new graduate joiners where you can make a meaningful and positive difference.

If you’re curious, resilient and agile you could thrive with us.

What we look for

At KPMG, everyone brings a unique perspective, and we want to ensure that you have the best opportunity to demonstrate your potential. We want to discover your individual strengths and attributes to help us to know whether you’ll enjoy working here and how you’ll thrive. That’s why we operate an open access policy and an application process that will assess both your qualifications and your qualities.

Generally, you’ll be expected to demonstrate the following grades (*or equivalents), to show that you’re able to successfully study for professional qualifications. If you are a few grades or points short, we would still encourage you to apply, as your application will be reviewed together with your performance in our assessments. You‘ll also have the opportunity to provide additional information for us to assess your application and potential in the context of your socio-economic background and/or any extenuating circumstances, which may have a positive uplift on your academic achievements through contextual recruitment. You can find out more here.

GCSE Maths Grade 5 or B*

GCSE English Language Grade 5 or B*

120 UCAS points* from your ‘top’ 3 A Level grades, excluding General Studies

2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline.

Training & development

The training and development of our people is critical to the future success of our business. We want to empower you to grow in your own way, to feed your curiosity and embrace a growth mindset in an environment where learning is continuous. Therefore, we have created a rich curriculum and learning community to help you build your skills and fulfil your potential. This ranges from an immersive 5-day induction experience to help you transition to the world of work, formal training courses, leadership knowledge bites, learning journals, online courses and networking events – all aligned to our ‘learn for a lifetime’ strategy designed to help you gain an advantage for life.

In addition, on this programme, we currently offer the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification. The FRM Certification is delivered via online classroom live and in centre courses. It also has wrap-around support which consists of online portal, study tools and online mock exams meaning there is form of support for your every need.

This approach enables you to study and learn the content at a pace suited to your learning style, but ensures all are at the right technical level prior to stepping into revision elements, so you can focus on your exam technique before the exam. The structure of the programme spreads your examinations over the lifetime of the training contract so that you are able to build up your technical knowledge and can gradually apply what you are learning in training to your workplace experience.

Key skills

Throughout the recruitment process we will be looking to learn more about your strengths.

To be successful on this programme, you will be required to demonstrate the strengths that we look for in our graduates at KPMG.

Learn more about what we look for and how to apply here.

Additional important information

Please visit our Applying to KPMG page to discover more about our application process.

Visit our International Students page to find out more about visas and requirements.

For anything else, please refer to our FAQ section.