Graduate and student programmes

Now more than ever, an auditor’s work is forward thinking, innovative and brings you straight to the heart of business issues. Our clients look to our Audit professionals to provide high-quality financial statement audits, IT audits and sustainability related assurance engagements, as well as industry insight and valuable perspectives.

Our Audit team at KPMG takes you behind the scenes of some of the world’s most renowned companies, allowing you to provide market leading insight, critically informed solutions and trustworthy expertise to understand every aspect of a business from the inside out.

KPMG is investing in implementing new technologies to support the role and tasks of an Auditor, allowing our teams to spend more time on areas that require critical judgement and providing insightful outcomes.

The work we do significantly impacts businesses and communities - influencing investment decisions and boosting economic growth. Being part of our Audit community means you'll play a crucial role in building the confidence and trust that businesses and society need to flourish.

Deal Advisory team up with clients to give them the confidence to make big decisions for their businesses. The knowledge you bring to the table will help deliver high-quality work that builds trust and creates long-lasting value for clients, truly making a difference to the businesses and communities we work with.

You’ll help businesses create opportunities and offer expert advice and solutions grounded in data to speed up better outcomes. You'll have access to technology solutions, providing our clients with in-depth insights to enhance their data, pricing, modelling, benchmarking, and reporting.

Now's a great time to jump on board as we're planning some big growth moves across our teams.. You could join teams like Corporate Finance and Valuations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Transaction Services, Infrastructure Advisory, Debt Advisory, Integration and Separation or Restructuring and Insolvency.  Whether advising on a merger, helping with net-zero goals, or making client operations greener, you’ll find the work diverse and high-profile.

Our fast-paced environment will excite, challenge, and reward you. While there will be intense work periods, you’ll have the support that comes from being part of our diverse and collaborative team, to help you thrive.

In Consulting, we're all about adding value. We dive into our clients' organisations, using our industry knowledge and tech solutions, ready to tackle their toughest challenges today and prepared for whatever follows. Our projects are cutting-edge and lead the market. Our work makes a real impact on the businesses and communities we serve.

Being part of our team means working within a supportive and inclusive community, working with some of the brightest minds to solve tough problems. Whether we're helping clients cut costs, make smarter decisions, improve efficiency, or introduce the latest technology, we bring a bunch of talented people together to deliver solid, connected solutions. You'll get to work on a variety of projects and work alongside experts from across the firm.

We encourage everyone to be themselves and give their best, no matter their background. Wherever you join us, you'll have the entire KPMG community standing with you, helping you grow in your own style and make a difference.

Management Consulting – We help public and private sectors understand their most important value drivers and achieve tangible, lasting performance improvements.  Our teams work across the following areas: Operating Model, Supply Chain and Operations, Major Projects Advisory, People Services, Transformation, Sustainable Value, Economic Social Development and Transformation.

Risk Consulting – Risk Management should be embedded with the culture of the organisation so that everyone is focused on managing and optimising risk. We have specialists in the following areas:  Financial Risk Management, Actuarial Services, Forensics, Governance, Risk and Compliance Services

Digital Consulting – Our Digital Consulting provides advice around digital and data strategy, and we design, deliver, maintain and operate proprietary digital products and solutions, which leverage KPMG IP, to deliver business benefit to their organisations. We are organised into chapters, with market leading capability in innovation, solution architecture, cyber security, data science and analytics, engineering, intelligent automation, and software development.

Do you want to make an impact from day one? Our Private Enterprise practice works alongside New Zealand’s privately-owned businesses to help them meet their business goals.

With over one thousand organisations our clients range from retail businesses to national trusts, from kiwifruit companies to manufacturers and government departments to personal investment portfolios. Your role could include the preparation of financial statements, tax calculations and data analytics – especially in respect to cash flows and audit work. Private Enterprise helps businesses start, grow, strengthen, and potentially transition.

We provide support in business planning, start-up financing, business strategy and all of this is often underpinned by assisting with their corporate and personal tax needs as well. We don’t just look after business we look after the families and entrepreneurs that built them.

It takes a top-performing team to operate a company of our size and scope. That’s why KPMG employs business professionals who have the experience to complement and support our core competencies in Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. Our Business Enablement team play an important part in our firm’s success. We help our people to work in a way that’s smarter and more sustainable. Our Business Enablement Team is made up of a number of specialist teams including Brand, Business Support, Information Technology Services, Risk, Legal, Finance and Business Performance, Office Operations and People and Inclusion.

Wherever you join us, you can look forward to taking on complex, business-critical work that’s as high profile and challenging as our client-facing work. And as the world around us changes, you’ll help us to transform now and for the future. 

We build trusted relationships with clients to help them navigate the latest changes, see fresh opportunities, and empower their business.

Accelerating globalization, growing regulatory and business complexity, and the evolution of tax technology is creating ever-increasing expectations for the tax function to deliver greater value to businesses. We are at the leading edge of this change and this is your opportunity to jump on board and help drive forward this exciting transformation process.

We support our clients responding to the impact of existing and emerging technology, including providing valuable insights and overall governance to our clients, managing tax issues arising as result of having a global workforce as well as assisting them in driving efficiencies within their tax function.

Our services include People Services, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, Innovation Growth Advisory, Compliance and Indirect Tax.