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Strategy and Transactions Graduate Programmes
Advise clients on how to innovate and stay competitive through buying, selling or merging parts of their business.
2025 Applications are open
Search and apply for available programmes below. Unless stated, applications will close when filled so we encourage you to apply early to avoid any disappointment.
Why Strategy and Transactions at EY?
Markets are fuelled by success
We help our clients grow, transform and be successful through advising them across all aspects of their business – whether they are buying other businesses, selling parts of theirs, merging with another or transforming themselves to be more competitive.
A better, more sustainable future
Whether a company intends to increase their market share, diversify across different geographies, acquire new technologies or to become more profitable, our job is to help them navigate complexity and to reinvent themselves.
Turning ideas into reality
We help clients with their most challenging and complex questions that impact their businesses and provide deep insight and expertise to help shape the strategies of some of the world’s most iconic organisations.
What could you do in Strategy and Transactions?
We work with some of the world’s biggest companies as well as start-ups, government, and charities helping them to make important decisions. We advise businesses both locally and globally, meaning you may also get the opportunity to travel. And, the work we do is important to the daily working of society, to help build more trust in the economy and support businesses to thrive and grow.
Explore our programmes below and help to build a better working world for our clients by fostering long-term value.
Business Modelling
Support clients in building and reviewing financial forecasting models used to underpin transaction evaluation decisions. Our analytics specialists provide data driven insights to clients.
Corporate Finance
Advise business leaders as well as governments on how to make decisions on their financing and capital efficiencies – ensuring they are making the best decisions for all of their stakeholders.
Data Analytics
Help clients across different industries make good business decisions whilst developing your career in data analytics and data science. Develop cloud-based platforms and analytics tools across a variety of different use cases.
Economic Advisory
We use the principles of economics to help clients make better decisions around policy, regulation and commercial activities. You'll develop economic expertise whilst working with companies, governments and policy makers.
Operational Research
Our clients are always looking for ways to make optimum use of their physical assets, from workforce to machinery and more. We utilise advanced analytics and Operational Research techniques to help them find ways to do this.
Transaction Diligence
These teams advise clients on both the buying and selling of companies and assets to support their strategic priorities. They provide extensive diligence support to buyers and sellers to some of the world’s biggest deals.
Transaction Diligence - Deal Analytics
Unleash business potential through cutting-edge analytics, transforming complex data into strategic insights for informed, successful mergers and acquisitions deals.
Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy
Help our clients to respond to urgent challenges by providing advice to help them become profitable, to address performance issues, to restructure or in some cases, provide insolvency support.
Valuation
We work across a broad range of industry sectors valuing businesses, investments and assets and have the opportunity to provide input into valuations for mergers and acquisitions, disputes and reporting purposes.
EY-Parthenon
EY-Parthenon is the global strategy consulting arm within EY, comprised of more than 9,000 professionals where you can create a unique career and make a meaningful impact — success as defined by you.
Joining as a graduate
Once you join, you'll be provided with exceptional career and opportunities that aim to unlock your full potential. You’ll be empowered to work on multiple projects, working with a wide range of clients and be fully supported to study towards your professional qualification, where applicable.
We have a highly supportive culture aimed to help you thrive and develop. Through a combination of formal and on-the-job training, you'll learn professional skills and project management, core skills (including Powerpoint/Excel/Word as well as selected data handling/visualisation tools) and soft skills. You'll also learn about financial modelling and analytical techniques. As you progress through the programme, you will take on more responsibilities and obtain experience across different teams, broadening your sector understanding and increasing your professional network.
A training path to support you
Start your professional qualification as soon as you join and study towards the ICAEW or ICAS qualification. Two highly regarded industry qualifications.
Along the way, you’ll shadow senior colleagues. And before you know it, you’ll be working on exciting client engagements – with lots of help of course.
We’ve developed an accessible blended approach of work and study that includes classroom lessons, online learning, and structured self-study. Studying and exams can be hard to balance alongside client commitments and social activities outside of work. But you’ll never be on your own. You’ll study with the rest of your cohort, building relationships and friendships that will last a lifetime. Plus, we’re here to support you at every step.
Removing barriers
We’re proud of our heritage on driving diversity and social mobility across the professional services industry, and in 2016, we removed the requirement to have minimum UCAS points or a degree classification to make an application to EY. We are passionate about giving candidates a fair and consistent recruitment process and are proud of our long-standing partnership with RARE who help us assess applications using contextual recruitment. And, whilst some academic qualifications will still be considered (check programme pages for more information), it’s no longer a barrier. We also firmly believe that every candidate should have the opportunity to demonstrate their potential in our selection process which is why we use our leading EY Strengths Framework that focuses on your individual strengths.
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