Graduate Programmes in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and across South Africa

General Information

Both SAICA Tax Elective trainees, and SAIT trainees will join this programme.

The SAICA Tax Elective programme offers trainees will gain significant experience across multiple service offerings, and sectors with long-term opportunities for focusing in one or more areas.

The SAIT programme, for SAIT tax trainees, is within our Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR – Tax, Finance and Payroll Operate) subservice line which includes Indirect Tax (ITX), Personal Advisory Services (PAS) and Financial Reporting (Finance Operate). Within our subservice lines, SAIT tax trainees will gain experience in:

• Tax compliance: Preparation and review of corporate income tax returns
• Audit of tax support: Corporate tax audit of companies
• Tax accounting and reporting, and financial reporting: Tax accounting of companies, preparation of Annual Financial Statement for companies (tax and accounting)

The broad range of experience across the different subservice lines are there to build your professional expertise in a well-rounded tax and finance professional.

Requirements

To join this programme you will need CTA level 02, or BSc/BCom Honours degree in Tax/Accounting/ Accounting Science. Read more

General Information

Through this programme to work with clients in various industries as part of a globally integrated network of specialists with high quality tax, legal, data technology and commercial backgrounds. You will learn more about indirect taxes and how they impact our clients. Our indirect tax team specialises in consumption taxes, such as value-added tax, and taxes impacting global trade, such as customs and excise duties. You will have the opportunity to specialise in either of these disciplines. The work is technically challenging, creative and requires you to work closely with our clients’ businesses. With the support of our strong team with proven expertise in this area and the opportunity to progress, you will learn and accelerate your career. The career opportunities in these areas are truly of a global nature with governments around the world increasingly focussing on these taxes as a source of government revenue. The career opportunities in these areas are truly of a global nature with governments around the world increasingly focussing on these taxes as a source of government revenue. 

Requirements

To join this programme you will need a BCom Honours Accounting/Tax; or an LLB with completed articles (admitted attorney). Read more

General information:

Internal Audit naturally plays a key role in enabling organisations to build a brand of trust as they move along their transformational journeys. However, as complexity and disruption increase in the business, internal audit will need to have a much bigger advisory role to sustain stakeholder trust in organizations. It will need to provide broader insights on all the risks that an organization faces.

Requirements:

A Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honour’s degree and above with a minimum overall academic average of 65% and above in Internal Audit.

General information:

Internal Audit naturally plays a key role in enabling organisations to build a brand of trust as they move along their transformational journeys. However, as complexity and disruption increase in the business, internal audit will need to have a much bigger advisory role to sustain stakeholder trust in organizations. It will need to provide broader insights on all the risks that an organization faces.

Requirements:

A Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honour’s degree and above with a minimum overall academic average of 65% and above in Internal Audit.

General information:

Successful organisations rely on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically to maintain stakeholder trust. We assist our clients and their legal counsel to investigate facts, resolve disputes and manage regulatory challenges. We put integrity at the heart of compliance programmes to help our clients better manage ethical and reputational risks.

Our integrated approach, aided by forensic technology, aims to enhance areas of perceived weakness or issues including: governance, controls, culture and data insights. Our professionals include forensic accountants and technologists, certified fraud examiners, anti-corruption professionals and money laundering and sanctions investigators. We work with our clients' legal counsel (internal or external) and compliance and internal audit departments to investigate complex issues.

Requirements:

A minimum overall academic average of 65% and above in one of the following fields of study:

• BCom/BCom Honours degree Accounting/Auditing;
• BCom Honours degree in Forensic Accountancy;
• LLB; and
• BSc Degree in Computer Science.

General information

EY is committed to growing and transforming the Chartered Accountancy profession. Importantly, we believe in individual development from school level through university and into the world of work.

Bursaries are awarded to individuals who we believe have the commitment to qualify as a Chartered Accountant and an academic record which indicates the ability to do so with due regard to financial need. In return for the bursary, the student is required to work at EY for the duration of their training contract (a minimum of three years).

Eligibility requirements

The first requirement to be eligible for a bursary is South African citizenship and a valid South African identity document. We require an academic record of a minimum of four A’s, excluding Life Orientation; that you will be studying toward a relevant CA degree (three to four years) and a year Accounting Honours/Certificate in Theory in Accounting (CTA). Further, you should be accepted and/or enrolled at a SAICA (South African Institute of Chartered Accountants) accredited University. The list of accredited Universities can be found on the Matric bursary page.

Visit the Matric Bursary page for more information and to apply to the programme today.

General information:

The advisory supply chain domain addresses an organisation’s overarching end-to-end supply chain and operations strategy to grow, optimise and protect their operations. In the past companies sold products and services through linear value chains. But innovation and disruption have pushed companies into a new supply chain model driven by digital ecosystems and market networks that enable hybrid forms of cooperation and competition.

Requirements:

A final year Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Science Honours degree and above with a minimum overall academic average of 65% and above in the field of Industrial Engineering.

General information:

Technology is at the centre of business change, enabling organisations to transform their business and operating models and respond nimbly to competitive threats. EY technology advisory teams operate in the following domains:

• Cyber Security                                                                  SAP Financial Services
• Governance, Risk and Compliance Technology            SAP Non-Financial Services
• Data and Analytics                                                           SAP Treasury and Loans
• Technology Transformation                                            IT Advisory

Requirements:

A Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honour’s degree and above with a minimum overall academic average of 65% and above in one of the following fields of study:

• Information Technology                                                  Big Data Analytics
• Informatics                                                                        Information Systems
• Computer Engineering                                                    Computer Science 

General information:

Our team is comprises sustainability/ESG practitioners, environmental and social scientists, engineers and accountants/financial experts working across disciplines to solve for our clients’ challenges, whether around enhancing their sustainability/ESG performance, improving their data and disclosures or measuring the impact of their activities.  

Requirements:

An Environmental or Social Science Honours degree and above with a minimum overall academic average of 65% and above in one of the following fields of study:

• Environmental or human rights law;
• Engineering: renewable energy, civil or chemical; and
• Development finance, sustainable development, impact finance or business administration with a sustainability focus.

General information:

Technology risk can help clients to achieve sustainable growth by supporting their efforts to protect their business performance by providing trusted communications on internal control and regulatory compliance to investors, management, regulators, customers and other stakeholders. The technology and risk team accomplishes this by assessing the technology risks introduced to businesses through:

• Understanding their strategies, initiatives, processes and issues around IT controls, cybersecurity attestation, cloud assurance, certification, contractual compliance or software asset management.
• Providing services that help navigate through the digital complexity to make confident and faster decisions.

Requirements:

A minimum overall academic average of 65% and above in one of the following fields of study:

• BCom Information Systems/Science;
• BCom Honours in Internal Audit; and
• BSc Computer Science.