Shape trust and confidence by helping organisations manage risk.
Programme overview
On the Risk Consulting Summer Internship, you’ll shape the future with confidence by helping organisations build and protect trust. You’ll support clients to manage risk, enhance control environments using technology, data and AI, and strengthen internal audit, risk and compliance. As a Shaper of the future, you’ll solve complex challenges and deliver insight‑led solutions that drive efficiency, value and real impact.
Core skills for success
- Learning agility – proactively applying a risk mindset to identify issues and opportunities that impact trust and business performance.
- Analytical thinking – using data, technology and structured thinking to interpret complex risks and deliver clear, insight‑led outcomes.
- Digital fluency – applying technology, data and AI to assess risk, enhance controls and generate valuable insights.
- Inclusive collaboration – working with clients and teams to communicate risk clearly and deliver practical, effective 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 strengths and opportunities, and support improvements to processes and controls.
- Delivering a range of risk services across process and controls, digital risk, data, regulation and compliance, using insight to address complex challenges.
- Communicating findings and recommendations to clients, helping them understand risks and drive practical improvements.
- Collaborating with teams and stakeholders to deliver high‑quality outcomes, stay informed on business and technology trends, and contribute to timely, effective delivery.
Please note: Due to UK policies, you must be based in the UK for the entire duration of the programme.
Eligibility for applying
If you’re in your penultimate year, or if you’re already in your final year but will be doing a one-year Master’s degree, or taking a gap year, this internship is for you.
You will, need to be working towards an honours degree in a numbers-based subject like Maths, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Economics, Computer Science or Technology, 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.