On the Risk Consulting Graduate Programme, you’ll shape the future with confidence by helping organisations build and protect trust. You’ll support clients to manage risk, enhance control environments through technology, data and AI, and strengthen internal audit, risk and compliance capabilities. Working in high‑performing teams, you’ll solve complex challenges, deliver insight‑led, end‑to‑end solutions, build technical and interpersonal skills, and undertake relevant training and qualifications.
Core skills for success
- Curiosity and motivation – proactively using your risk mindset to identify issues and opportunities that could impact trust and business performance.
- Analytical and systems thinking – using data, technology and structured thinking to interpret complex problems and deliver clear, risk‑informed insights.
- Digital, data and AI fluency – applying emerging technologies to assess risks, enhance controls and generate meaningful insights.
- Collaboration, communication and relationship building – working effectively with clients and teams to clearly communicate risks and deliver practical solutions.
- Ownership and accountability – taking responsibility for delivering high-quality outcomes that strengthen trust in clients’ risk and control environments.
What you will be doing
- Working across a range of capabilities including: Process & Controls, Prudential & Financial Risk – Financial Stability, Prudential & Financial Risk – Credit, Prudential & Financial Risk – Market Risk, Conduct & Non-Financial Risk, Financial Crime, Digital Risk, and Risk Innovation.
- Working across a portfolio of clients to understand their businesses, identify risks and opportunities, and support improvements to processes and controls.
- Delivering risk consulting services across digital risk, data, regulation and compliance, using technology and insight to address complex challenges.
- Collaborating with teams and clients to communicate findings clearly, influence decisions and deliver high‑quality solutions.
- Building your skills through hands‑on experience, staying informed on business and technology trends while developing technical and interpersonal capabilities.
Eligibility for applying
You will need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject, have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths, or in your home language if you do not hold English Language GCSE, and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.
While we welcome applications from candidates of all academic backgrounds, we are looking to recruit individuals who will succeed at EY in the role and future qualifications. We have completed several studies on academic attainment at A-level (or equivalents), candidate performance in the online assessments in the EY recruitment process, and how that predicts future performance at EY.
Throughout the recruitment process, we therefore assess your suitability for the EY role you have applied to by considering your scores in the online assessments and your academic attainment at A-level or equivalent. This approach is designed to ensure our joiners are successful in role and, where relevant, in the achievement of their professional qualifications. It is important to EY, and we have a duty of care which we take very seriously, to ensure our joiners are set up for long-term success.
We are also proud to partner with RARE recruitment, so that your application can be processed in the context of your socio-economic background. This allows us to give you the maximum credit for your achievements, assessing whether you have overachieved in light of your personal circumstances.
Successful candidates may have the opportunity to work on roles within the Innovation Hub. If this is an area of interest to you, please express this on your application form.
All students studying towards a Bachelors or Masters degree must complete the qualification by the following dates:
31 March 2027 for April 2027 joiners
31 July 2027 for August 2027 joiners
31 August 2027 for September 2027 joiners